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Einar Scheving
Awards
Three-time winner of the Icelandic Music Awards: Best Jazz Composition, 2007 for "Lif" Best Jazz Album, 2008 for "Cycles" Special Jury Price, 2012. (Best Album, Open Category) for "Land Mins Fodur (The Land of My Father)"
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Anders Lønne Grønseth & Multiverse: Inner View
by Chris May
Since George Russell published his influential Lydian Chromatic Concept Of Tonal Organization in 1953, other jazz musicians have attempted to reforge the theoretical construct of their music--with varying degrees of success and including some egregiously posturing examples of b.s. which bring to mind Hans Christian Andersen's salutary story The Emperor's New Clothes. One twenty-first century venture which authentically hits the mark is Israeli-born, New York-based tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur's Middle Path, his deft recalibration of microtonal Indian ...
read moreEinar Scheving: Land Mins Fodur
by Alex Franquelli
It is jazz, all right. But it is that kind of jazz that manages to flow in a natural, effortless way. The rigid canons of composition are refined by a clever approach to folk music, which in Land Míns Föður (The Land of My Father) ceases to be a mere echo in an otherwise contemporary context to become the lens through which relatively recent influences are filtered and acknowledged. Drummer Einar Scheving is one of the most prolific and praised ...
read moreCycles, 2007: "This is pure art, in which one has the feeling of disappearing into a dream world where only beauty exists.” ***** Vernhardur Linnet (Iceland’s most notable jazz critic).
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Sveitin
From: CyclesBy Einar Scheving
Nu Vil Eg Enn I Nafni Thinu
From: Land Mins Fodur (The Land of My...By Einar Scheving