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Jan Bang / Erik Honore: Uncommon Deities

by John Kelman
September 6, 2012

Jan Bang / Erik Honoré Uncommon Deities SamadhiSound 2012 As the 2012 Punkt Festival debuts its eighth annual edition at its home base of Kristiansand, Norway--but this time, in the brand new, state of the art Kilden Performing Arts Centre--it has gradually evolved into something more than just a festival. The ...

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Stian Westerhus: The Matriarch And The Wrong Kind Of Flowers

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by John Kelman
September 4, 2012

Beyond his reputation as Norway's “hardest working guitarist"--an éclat supported by, amongst many others, ongoing membership in Nils Petter Molvær's trio and assuming the producer's role for the trumpeter's Baboon Moon (Sula, 2011); collaborating with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra for Ripples, raptures and disbelief (a Molde Jazz Festival commission screaming for release); and, with Didymoi Dreams ...

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Solveig Slettahjell: Antologie

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by John Kelman
August 13, 2012

It's been two years since Solveig Slettajhell's Tarpan Seasons (Universal Music Norway, 2010), and in the intervening years she's been a little busier than usual, taking time off to give birth to her first child. Delivering a thoroughly captivating duo showcase with In the Country keyboardist Morten Qvenild at this year's Jazzahead! in Bremen, Germany--playing music ...

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All About Jazz Presents at Kongsberg Jazzfestival: Kongsberg, Norway, July 5-6, 2012

by Henning Bolte
July 25, 2012

Kongsberg Jazz FestivalAll About Jazz Presents: Doing It NorwayKongsberg, NorwayJuly 5-6, 2012 Kongsberg is a small town in Buskerud with about 24,000 inhabitant, situated s 55 miles west of Oslo, the nation's capital. Founded in 1624, after silver was discovered in the hills, the Danish-Norwegian king recruited German miners from the ...

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Stian Westerhus: The Existential Dimension of Music

by Adriana Carcu
July 5, 2012

Guitarist Stian Westerhus holds a singular position in the Nordic musical landscape. His involvement with bands like Puma and Monolithic--as well as his projects together with trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer and drummer Erlend Dahlen, and vocalist Sidsel Endresen--are a prolongation of his solo performances, which impress through a tremendous output of musical energy. His guitar voice, ...

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Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus: Didymoi Dreams

by John Kelman
July 5, 2012

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 ...

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Eivind Aarset: Guitar Anti-Hero

by John Kelman
July 5, 2012

In a time when the interactive video game Guitar Hero is selling in the millions, Eivind Aarset is, in many ways, the Guitar Anti-Hero. Despite making music that could easily lend itself to the kind of guitar pyrotechnics that are so often the litmus test of a good player, Aarset's emphasis is on texture, on melody, ...

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Thomas Stronen: The Tin Drum

by Adriana Carcu
July 4, 2012

One of Norway's most prolific drummers, sampling percussionists and composers, Thomas Strønen is the co-founder of Food, along with British saxophonist Iain Ballamy. The group--which, since 2005, has whittled down from an original quartet that also featured Norwegians Arve Henriksen on trumpet and Mats Eilertsen on bass--released its most recent record, Quiet Inlet, in 2010 (its ...

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Sidsel Endresen: The Place to Be

by Adriana Carcu
July 3, 2012

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 ...

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Humcrush with Sidsel Endresen: Ha!

by John Kelman
June 30, 2012

That so many artists can place themselves in a position of ultimate risk on a concert stage, attempting to create something from nothing, speaks of a certain intrepid spirit. That some of those same artists not only succeed at pulling form from the ether, but actually do so night after night, with a distinct and recognizable ...