Trond Bersu

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| instrument = Drums, synth, programming, and vocals

| genre = Electronica, pop, alternative, jazz

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| label = Propeller Recordings

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Trond Bersu (born 4 January 1984 in Skjåk, Norway) is a Norwegian drummer and producer.{{cite web | url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/1942692-Trond-Bersu | title=Trond Bersu | work=Discography | publisher=Discogs |accessdate=2015-10-30}}

Career

During his music studies on the jazz program at the Trondheim musikkonservatorium Bersu started the band PELbO together with fellow students Ine Hoem and Kristoffer Lo. Their self titled debut album was nominated for the 2010 Open class Spellemannprisen.{{cite web | url=http://www.adressa.no/kultur/musikk/article1576666.ece | title=Pelbo Spellemann-nominert | language=Norwegian | last1=Enlid | first1=Vegard | last2=Misje | first2=Hilde Kristine | publisher=Adresseavisen | date=17 January 2011 | accessdate=2015-10-30 | archive-date=2016-03-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307081832/http://www.adressa.no/kultur/musikk/article1576666.ece | url-status=dead }} The second album release was Days of Transcendence (2011).

In Trondheim, he also collaborated with another fellow student Ingrid Helene Håvik and later on when established in Oslo, they started the band Highasakite together. Their debut album All That Floats Will Rain (2012) was well received and was nominated for Newcomer of the Year at the 2012 Spellemannprisen. The next album Silent Treatment received Pop Group of the Year at the 2014 Spellemannprisen.{{cite web | url=https://snl.no/Highasakite | title=Highasakite | work=Biography | language=Norwegian | first=Jon Vidar | last=Bergan | publisher=Store Norske Leksikon | date=30 August 2015 | accessdate=2015-10-30}}

Honors

2014: Spellemannprisen as This year's pop group for the album Silent Treatment
2016: Spellemannprisen as This year's pop group for the album Camp Echo

Discography

With PELbO

2010: PELbO (Riot Factory)
2011: Days of Transcendence (Riot Factory)

With Machina

2011: So Much For Dancing (Øra Fonogram)

With Highasakite

2012: All That Floats Will Rain (Riot Factory)
2014: Silent Treatment (Propeller Recordings)
2016: Camp Echo (Propeller Recordings)
2018: Out of Order-single (Propeller Recordings)
2018: Elastic State of Mind-single (Producer and musician) (Propeller Recordings)
2019: Uranium Heart (Producer and musician)(Propeller Recordings)
2020: The Bare Romantic 1 & 2 (Producer and musician) (Propeller Recordings)