Results for "Olav Torget"

Olav Torget

Moers Festival 2014

by Henning Bolte
June 23, 2014

Moers Festival Moers , GermanyJune, 6-9, 2014 Moers is a small city of about 100,000 inhabitants at the periphery of the former mining and industrial Ruhrpott area in Germany, about 40 km from the Dutch border and near the cities of Duisburg and Düsseldorf. Moers Festival, a four-day annual event always ...

Karl Seglem: Ossicles

by John Kelman
October 16, 2010

Saxophonist and goat/antelope hornist Karl Seglem has led a long and diverse career, both as a recording artist and as the head of NORCD, a label that reaches across a multitude of musical boundaries looking to be broken, linking them together with a decided focus on the traditional music of his native Norway. Despite an increasingly ...

Suburban Jive

By Olav Torget

Label: Echofisk
Released: 2008
Track listing: Resonant Patterns; Five to Six (in the morning); Grit; Song for Marte; Yadoh Drums; A Little While; Quiet Saturday; Gilli; Some Things are Yet to Come.

Olav Torget: Suburban Jive

by John Kelman
August 24, 2008

Much is written about Norway's incorporation of its folk tradition into jazz, not especially different than what Americans have been doing within their own borders. The highly influential Jon Balke has infused his own recondite music with Africo-centric rhythms on albums like Statements (ECM, 2006), while saxophonist Trygve Seim has recently spent a lot of time ...

Suburban Jive

By Olav Torget

Label: Echofisk
Released: 2007