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Sidsel Endresen
Sidsel Endresen singer / composer / poet
From 1981-87, Sidsel worked as singer and co-writer in Jon Eberson Group. Together they released five CDs and won two Norwegian "Grammy" awards.
From 1989: Sidsel signed to the German label ECM Records, where she released two solo CDs - "So I Write" (1990) and "Exile" (1994) which won her much critical acclaim internationally. Both CDs in collaboration with Django Bates, Jon Christensen and Nils Petter Molvær, plus additional musicians on "Exile" David Darling and Bugge Wesseltoft.
From 1993: Duo with keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft, released three CDs - "Nightsong" (1994), "Duplex Ride" (1998), both on Curling Legs/ACT - and "Out here. In there" (Jazzland/Universal, 2002). They received the Norwegian "Grammy" for ”Duplex Ride” and ”Out here. In there”.
1995-1999: Free improvising vocal trio ESE, together with Elin Rosseland and Eldbjørg Raknes. The trio wrote commissioned pieces for Vossa Jazz 1996, NRK 1997 and released the CD "GACK" (Jazzland/Kemistri 1999).
2000-2002: Solo project "Undertow" (Jazzland Rec. 2000), together with Audun Kleive, Patrick Shaw Iversen, Roger Ludvigsen, Bugge Wesseltoft and Nils Petter Molvær. Nominated for the Norwegian ”Grammy” 2000. Extensive touring in Norway and Europe. New line-up from 2002: Christian Wallumrød" keys and Jan Bang "live sampling and treatment. Tours / festivals in Europe, Great Britain, Canada and China.
2002 - : Duo collaboration with Christian Wallumrød. First cd release: ”Merriwinkle (Jazzland/Universal 2004) in collaboration with Helge Sten (alias Deathprod).
From 1999: Collaboration with neknowned contemporary music composer Rolf Wallin. Soloist and co-composer in the one-woman-opera "Lautleben" (performed at Ultima 1999, Festspillene in Bergen 2000, Stockholm 2001 and in UK, 2001).
2000: Wrote music for Runi Langum�'s film "Expedition".
Sidsel has fronted a number of her own groups and worked with a large number of Norwegian and international jazz musicians. She has worked within a wide range of musical genres, including contemporary music, multimedia performances, - soloed with choir and symphonic music, - collaborated with other Norwegian poets and worked extensively with the voice as solo instrument.
Sidsel has written music for several theatre-and dance-performances since 1990, been festival composer for Molde Int. Jazz festival 1993, Bergen "Nattjazz" 2002 - toured and participated in festivals in Scandinavia, Europe, Great Britain, Canada, China and Japan. She has been awarded several Norwegian Music Awards, among others 4 Norwegian ”Grammies”, the "Buddy Award" 2001 (Norwegian Jazz Association�'s highest award) as well as being nominated for The Nordic Council Music Award 2000. She has released 14 records and participated as sidewoman on a number of other releases. Sidsel also teaches at The Norwegian State Academy of Music.
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Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang: Snow Catches on her Eyelashes
by John Eyles
Although they had been collaborating since the early 90s, the first recording on which the Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset and American-born, Norway-resident Jan Bang appeared together was Bang's Pop Killer (Virgin, 1998). In the years since, Aarset and Bang have collaborated on many more albums, but this is the first to credit them as a duo. Particular high spots in their collaborations have included Bang's album on David Sylvian's label ...and Poppies from Kandahar (Samishadsound, 2010), Aarset's Dream Logic (ECM, ...
read moreParma Jazz Frontiere 2016
by Alberto Bazzurro
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read moreSidsel Endresen @ 60: Oslo, Norway, November 8-9, 2012
by John Kelman
Sidsel Endresen @ 60: A Special Birthday CelebrationNasjonal Jazzscene VictoriaOslo, NorwayNovember 8-9, 2012Turning 60 can mean different things to different people: for some, it's a time to think about slowing down, and for others, it's a time to kick into higher gear. In the case of jazz and improvising musicians, age seems to do nothing but accelerate their activities; just look at artists like guitarist Bill Frisell, saxophonist Evan Parker and pianist Chick Corea, three ...
read moreSidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus: Didymoi Dreams
by John Kelman
Sidsel Endresen & Stian WesterhusDidymoi DreamsRune Grammofon2012There was a time when a live performance was a one-time event; something experienced once by an audience, never to be experienced exactly that way ever again. Live recordings were costly affairs, and if the particular performance lined up for recording didn't turn out to be a great one--or if there were other factors involved, like a bad piano--well, the artist was, as they say, SoL. ...
read moreSidsel Endresen: The Place to Be
by Adriana Carcu
Sidsel Endresen is one of those rare artists who, after covering a vast musical territory--in her case reaching across from the Nordic folk songs to the rich cultural heritage of Arabic, Chinese and the Japanese traditional singing--have created their own form of expression, and gradually perfected it into a new musical language. She uses her voice to process the immediate sonic environment into a musical presence that emerges like a new energy, both suave and highly technical, to meet and ...
read moreSidsel Endresen: One
by John Kelman
While those around her were busy exploring the nexus of technology and conventional instrumentation at the 2006 Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway, Sidsel Endresen was demonstrating just how much could be done with one unaltered human voice. One documents the advances she's made in stretching the potential of voice and articulation. It's a record that eschews, for the most part, conventions like melody, pulse and lyric. Still, despite its improvised nature, this brief 32-minute set is not without form or ...
read morePunkt / Sidsel Endresen / Jon Hassell: Live Remixes Vol. 1
by John Kelman
If there's any downside to Norway's intrepid Punkt Fest, it's the inherently restricted audience capable of participating in its profound experience. While performances from artists spanning the entire musical spectrum are almost always captivating, it's Punkt's premise of following each show with a Live Remix, where other musicians interact with radical manipulations of the music just heard. The musical laboratory of the Alpha Room, where the Live Remixes take place, is limited to fewer than 300 people, resulting in a ...
read moreFarmers Market and Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus Win Norwegian Grammy Awards
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All About Jazz
Saturday evening at Vossa Jazz was an even greater cause for celebration than the performances to that point and still to come. Two of the festival's artists received news that they had been awarded Norwegian Grammy Awards: Multi-instrumentalist Stian Carstensen (accordion, guitar, pedal steel guitar, Kaval, banjo) and his longstanding group Farmers Market won in the Open Category for the group's 2012 release, Slav to the Rhythm (Division Records). Carstensen was at Vossa Jazz unveiling a new commission that, in ...
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Sidsel Endresen Interview
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All About Jazz
Sidsel Endresen Interview
This interview is part of the book project “under your skin" which will include Interviews with: Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Cindy Blackman, Taj Mahal, Yusef Lateef, Matt Waugh, Bob James, Skip Mcdonald, Erika Stucky, Living Colour, Dj Rob Swift, Marilyn Crispell, Dick Griffin, Bill frisell, KutMasta Kurt, Billy Bang, Kahil El'Zabar, Michael Ricci / Allaboutjazz.com, Val-Inc, Chico Freeman, Lonnie Liston Smith, Bobby Watson, Eddie Henderson, Dinosaur Jr, Lydia ...
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"Uncompromising! One chair,one microphone,and little else. Sidsel Endresen lifts the art of singing to the highest level - yet she is completely natural and unceremonious. Her unforgettable performance astonished the audience and put them in a trance! This is not about traditional singing,or about acrobatics - but about music that is filled with a strange and wild beauty. A big "thank you" to the festival-team who had the courage to present exciting and new music in between all the "safe" acts of the festival!" Wollf von Rechenberg/Cityzene Kassel