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Berit, Nils And Bjorn: Ein Song Fr

by Mark Sabbatini
June 29, 2005

Many people can enjoy a $500 bottle of wine, but few can properly appreciate it. A similar concept applies to a new album by the Norwegian BNB trio fusing jazz, neo-classical, and ethnic folk so smoothly many listeners will simply enjoy it without realizing its improvisation-heavy complexity.

Ein Song Frå Dei Utsungne Stunder is a vocal/fiddle/bass collaboration that on one level is a low-key set of traditional and contemporary acoustic ethnic folk. On another, however, it's a series ...

BNB - berit opheim | nils oekland | bjoern kjellemyr

Source: All About Jazz
March 14, 2005

Inspired by a wide variety of classic styles Berit Opheim, Nils Økland and Bjørn Kjellemyr found common ground in the field of improvisation back in 1998. Berit Opheim has won the traditional Landskappleiken with her shining vocal, performs early music with Rolf Lislevand and commissions experimental contemporary music. Nils Økland brings his personal expression to the fiddle, hardanger fiddle and viola d’amore. Bjørn Kjellemyr makes the jazzground tremble with his double bass. His recent fondness of the colascione, a bass ...
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