Results for "Stephan Meidell"

Stephan Meidell

Stephan Meidell is a musician and composer working out of Bergen, utilizing improvisation in different contexts through his own Metrics Ensemble (Hubro), Erlend Apneseth Trio (Hubro), Cakewalk (Hubro) and Velkro (Clean Feed). His main instruments are guitar and bass together with preparations, electronics and amplifiers in both sound sculpting, jazz, progressive kraut rock, noise rock and electro acoustic music. Later works also involve synthesizers and drum machines, and programming in Max/MSP. Meidell has released 16 albums with different constellations, and toured in Europe, North-America and Asia.

Les Rencontres AJC 2019

by Henning Bolte
December 22, 2019

Pan Piper, Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues, Cité de la Musique, Philharmonie de Paris Les Rencontres AJC 2019 Paris December 2-4, 2019 Association Jazzé Croisé (AJC) extended its annual December meeting in Paris to a three-day program with French and Scandinavian showcases and an extensive program of talks and discussions. Here ...

Erlend Apneseth: Ara

by Don Phipps
January 4, 2018

With the album Ara, Norwegian Hardanger fiddler Erlend Apneseth and his trio (drummer Øyvind Hegg-Lunde and guitarist Stephan Meidell) signal a folk music retelling of ancient stories that bring to mind Viking landscapes of ice and snow. Winter is coming -yet the music suggests this winter provides deep and breathtaking introspection amid icy drifts, snow-capped mountains, ...

Punkt Festival 2016

by Henning Bolte
October 1, 2016

Punkt Festival Kristiansand, Norway September, 3-5, 2016 Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Southern Norway, is a small, informal festival of internationally high artistic reputation and esteem. It takes place during the first week of September. Founded in 2005 its 12th edition as usual presented a wide range of musical performances and ...

Nutshell e Nattjazz 2016

by Luca Vitali
June 10, 2016

Visitare Bergen in maggio è sempre un terno al lotto: il clima, spesso piovoso, condiziona l'umore, ma quando è il sole ad accoglierti, l'incanto è assicurato. È da qualche anno che mancavo da Bergen e non facevo visita all'USF (United Sardine Factory), antica fabbrica di sardine convertita in tempio della cultura di quella città, e come ...

Velkro: Don't Wait for the Revolution

by Vincenzo Roggero
March 13, 2015

In comune hanno un background profondamente radicato nel folklore della propria terra, poi poco altro. A cominciare dalla nazionalità -Bostjan Simon è sloveno, Stephan Meidell norvegese e Luis Candeias portoghese -proseguendo con gli interessi musicali che spaziano dall'hip hop al noise, dal rock alternativo all'elettronica e al jazz. La sfida di Velkro, questo ...

Cascades

By Stephan Meidell

Label: Hubro Music
Released: 2014
Track listing: Suspire; Simulate; Sedate; Solace; Serene; Strike; Stage; Sphere.

Building Instrument: Building Instrument

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 22, 2014

The Norwegian trio Building Instrument has taken its time to record its debut album. The Bergen-based trio--featuring vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mari Kvien Brunvoll, known for her duo with guitarist Stein Urheim, who previously produced two acclaimed albums, Daydream Community and Daydream Twin (both on Jazzland, 2011 and 2013) and her self-titled solo album (also on Jazzland, ...

Stephan Meidell: Cascades

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 28, 2014

Norwegian, Bergen-based guitarist Stephan Meidell--known as a member of the experimental-improvising trio Cakewalk (Wired and Transfixed, Hubro, 2012 and 2013)--solo debut puts him in the same league of other Norwegian guitarists as Eivind Aarset and Stian Westerhus who redefined and re-conceptualized the role of the electric guitar. The Cascades project began in ...