Artist roster 2016

ARTIST ROSTER 2016

NILS PETTER MOLVAER
Nils Petter Molvær (NPM), Norwegian musician, composer and producer, connects multiple music styles - jazz, ambient, house, electronic and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock and pop music - and effortlessly melts them into convincing soundscapes of deep intensity. NEW ALBUM AND TOUR 2016.
DATES ON REQUEST. For Germany, please contact artribute
http://eepurl.com/bArZBT

MARI KVIEN BRUNVOLL
Completely alone on stage, surrounded by kalimba, kazoo, zither and various electronics to sample and manipulate her voice, she's always a fascinating experience in concert. Mari Kvien Brunvoll has a unique ability to fire up an audience, and has the ability to capture the listener into her universe and never let you go. Her music is a personal expression that straddles jazz, electro pop, acoustic blues and folk music from different corners of the world.
DATES ON REQUEST.
http://eepurl.com/bAsOeL

ARVE HENRIKSEN & FENNESZ
With guitar, effects pedals and an ingenious computer setup, the Austrian musician Christian Fennesz team up with Arve Henriksens trumpet, vocals and live electronics to create a totally new and fascinating musical universe. DATES ON REQUEST 2016.
http://eepurl.com/bpsGc9

DAG ARNESEN
Etter å ha gitt ut tre kritikerroste plater under vignetten "Norwegian Song", tar Dag Arnesen konseptet videre i samspill med bl.a. strykere fra Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester. LEDIGE DATOER PÅ FORESPØRSLER. http://eepurl.com/bq8fq1
 
LILL LINDFORS
En Sån Karl, Du Är Den Ende, En man i byrån, Sången Han Sjöng Var Min Egen og Musik ska byggas utav glädje. m.m. Kjente internasjonale slagere, egne hits, sambarytmer og dykk innom den rikholdige svenske visesangtradisjonen der navn som Cornelis Vreeswijk og Evert Taube er sentrale. Skandinavias showdronning. Ledige datoer i Norge jan 2016.
http://eepurl.com/bAlyr5

Arild Andersen Trio with Tommy Smith and Paolo Vinaccia
+ special guest Helge Lien. One of the most interesting and unusual jazz trios to have emerged in the last ten years is the international collaboration between Norwegian master bassist Arild Andersen, Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith and Italian percussionist Paolo Vinaccia. Andersen formed the trio in 2007 with the clear aim of breaking new ground in contemporary jazz and their impact was immediate. Their group’s initial live performances were noted for their astonishing power, precision and dynamism. AVAILABLE SPRING AND SUMMER + TOUR DATES 12-23 OCT 2016. http://eepurl.com/bw-XJz

TRIO MEDIAEVAL
The mesmerizing voices of Oslo's Trio Mediaeval have captivated the concert world with their breathtaking performances and recordings of a diverse polyphonic repertoire that features medieval music from England and France, contemporary works written for the ensemble, and traditional Norwegian ballads and songs. AVAILABLE 2016.
http://eepurl.com/bsN4fj

OLA KVERNBERG
Ola Kvernberg has received none less than three awards since his latest release. Liarbird (2011) was unanimously celebrated among critics both in Norway and abroad, and went on to win the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannsprisen) for Best Jazz Album in 2012. During the Kongsberg Jazz Festival later that year, he received the country's biggest prize; The Kongsberg DNB Musicians Award, receiving 300.000NOK. In 2013 he went on to win the Best Movie Music category at the Amanda Awards (norwegian Oscars equivalent) for his musical score for movie "Chasing the Wind". AVAILABLE ON REQUEST 2016. http://wpu.ir/y0xk2
 
HELGE LIEN TRIO
A little nation with a big jazz tradition is the land of fjords and trolls. Fascinating new artists and acts sporting a huge zest for playing and an irrepressible urge for experimentation keep pushing out of Norway to conquer the rest of the jazz world. The Helge Lien Trio, who have already won a large circle of fans in Scandinavia and Japan with their five albums and inspiring live concerts, are especially significant. They maintain the balance between jazz traditions and the avantgardist art of improvisation like hardly any other classic piano trio, par excellence. DATES ON REQUEST 2016.
http://www.kalleklev.no/artists/1-artists/1427-helge-lien-trio.html

ARVE HENRIKSEN
Arve Henriksen is probably Norway's most versatile musician of his generation, always on the move, always searching and exploring possible and seemingly impossible paths. From the Rune Grammofon catalogue he will be known through the three solo albums, twelve releases as a founder member of groundbreaking improvising group Supersilent and four with Food (two of them on RG). He was a member of Christian Wallumrød Ensemble and has played and recorded with a large number of Norwegian and international musicians, most notably David Sylvian, Jan Bang and Dhafer Youssef. In 2008 the album "Cartography" was released on ECM, but now Arve has a new album out on Rune Grammofon. DATES ON REQUEST 2016.
http://www.kalleklev.no/artists/1/1416.html

TRYGVE SEIM / NORDIC ORIENT RUMI SONGS
The Persian Sufi poet Jalaladin Rumi has had a great influence upon music, dance, poetry and philosophy in several countries. An active theologist, mystic and poet in the 13th century, Rumi left behind a large number of written material that has been a source of inspiration for mystics, musicians and other creative souls to this day. This is manifested once again when Norwegian composer Trygve Seim and his ensemble perform their Rumi Songs - a symbiosis of Rumi's beautiful poetry and Scandinavian contemporary music. DATES ON REQUEST 2016. http://eepurl.com/bBeTAH

STIAN WESTERHUS
Stian Westerhus is one of Norway’s most in demand young musicians playing in bands like Monolithic (with Kenneth Kapstad from Motorpsycho), Puma, Nils Petter Molvaer Group and many more. For the last few years Stian Westerhus has put more and more energy into challenging the electric guitar alone on a stage. Having been blessed with little or no respect for the instrument his performances balance raw expressiveness, virtuosity and melodic instinct utilizing his Norwegian heritage as well as growing up listening to Slayer. With a soundscape far beyond the standard guitar he seeks to push the boundaries for improvised music across the muddy waters of genres. AVAILABLE IN 2016. http://www.kalleklev.no/artists/1/1453.html

SVANTE HENRYSON Henryson/Balke/Jormin/Kleive Quartet
A band  made  up of  four  Scandinavian jazz  stars  –  Svante  Henryson  (cello),  Jon  Balke  (piano), Anders Jormin (double bass)  and Audun Kleive (drums) – some of the most influential musicians in the last twenty years of European  jazz.The  project,  which  began  with  the  first  edition  of   Jon Balke’s Magnetic North Orchestra, was born thanks  to the open musical vision of  its leader Svante Henryson and  has  its  roots  in  the  constant desire  of  its other  members  to  explore  and  interact. Henryson is a unique musician when it comes to voice  and phrasing, an all-around artist able  tomove  with absolute  freedom in a  musical  universe without distinction of musical genre.  He is acomposer  for  orchestra and a formidable improviser, equally comfortable playing  double bass  andelectric bass  as well as being a virtuoso on the cello. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE

SVANTE HENRYSON / KETIL BJØRNSTAD - NIGHT SONG
Ketil Bjørnstad returns to the piano/cello duo, instrumentation which defined two of his best-loved albums, "The River" and "Epigraphs" with David Darling, back in 1996 and 1998. This new collaboration with Svante Henryson, however, tells a different story. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE

BOBO STENSON TRIO
Master pianist Stenson, long term bassist Anders Jormin and alertly responsive young drummer Jon Fält have developed a richly detailed sound-world like nothing else in modern jazz – at once an extension of the jazz piano tradition and, with its windows opening onto classical music and world folklore, a force apart from it. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE

MORY KANTE
Known for the dazzling success of his song Yeke Yeke, Mory Kante, brilliant Guinean griot, singer and master of the kora, always thrills his audiences at every show - no matter where in the world he is performing! This musical pioneer of African music with his band of talented musicians, are always a breath of freshness from the musical mother-source, and an electric-and electrifying!-reminder of the unifying power of his truly planetary world music! AVAILABLE 2016. MORE

IVER KLEIVE and REIESRUD
Based on Norwegian folk tunes and hymns Iver kleive and Reiersrud added a new dimension to traditional church music. The music from the acclaimed trilogy; Blå Koral (91), Himmelskip (96) and Nåde over nåde (06). This "Cathedral trilogy" is built on the old Norwegian folk tunes and hymns as well as their own compositions. Let yourself be enchanted by the diversity and character of these beautiful melodies. Available in 2016 on requests. Spotify. More

ANNELI DRECKER
The album Rocks And Straws are based on poems by the North Norwegian cult poet Arvid Hanssen, translated into English by Roy Frode Løvland. The poems have strong elements of nature mysticism, but also examines man and nature and the human nature. Anneli find it liberating to not sing "I-me-you-you" texts, but rather deal with something bigger, something that everyone shares. AVAILABLE DATES ON REQUESTS 2016. http://eepurl.com/bkvGm9

SINIKKA LANGELAND
The Magical Forest
It is inspiring to find traces and fragments of ideas about the world tree, axsis mundi, in Finnskogen. I have transformed these and some parallel stories into songs that are encircled by instrumental passages and improvisations by the musicians. Mircea Eliade comments on axsis mundi that, "every Microcosm, every inhabited region, has a Centre; that is to say, a place that is sacred above all." http://eepurl.com/bzhtr

IBRAHIM ELECTRIC
During the last couple of years IBRAHIM ELECTRIC has been one of the most popular European jazz groups... These 3 personal instrumentalists have - besides the popularity with this group - made a name for themselves as some of the most striking on their respective instruments in Scandinavia. NEW ALBUM OUT NOW. DATES ON REQUEST. http://eepurl.com/bz6Gbf

EIVIND AARSET
Guitarist Eivind Aarset, one of the most exciting, individual and creative voices from the Norwegian jazz underground, saw Electronique Noir, his first release as a leader, hailed as "One of the best post Miles electric jazz albums" by none other than the The New York Times as well as America's leading jazz magazine Jazz Times and the UK's Jazzwise. Now Light Extracts, his much anticipated follow up album, is set to establish Eivind as one of the key voices in European Nu-Jazz. NEW ALBUM I.E OUT NOW.  DATES ON REQUESTS.  For GAS please contact artribute. 

KRISTIN ASBJØRNSEN
Kristin’s latest album, "I'll meet you in the morning" (2013/2014), received very good reviews in both the Norwegian and European press and it was followed with tours both in Norway, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and Austria. Kristin Asbjørnsen is one of the most original and critically redeemed voices in the Norwegian jazz, pop and world music scene, and it's always a great experience to witness her live. Her ensemble creates an unique ensemble sound, where the string and percussion instruments is combined in a warm and organic expression. The rich sound of her ensemble has elements of West-African and Afro-American music, Nordic jazz and contemplative church music. AVAILABLE ON REQUESTS. http://eepurl.com/bp7XTX

Geir Sundstøl & Erland Dahlen are two of the most prolific musicians from Norway. Now they have released solo discs "Furulund" and "Blossom Bells", both on Hubro (hubromusic.com) in September. They will present the material in duo format on some selected concerts. http://eepurl.com/bAsRGf

We are excited to present an unique collaboration of Jamaica meets Scandinavia: Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvaer. They toured Europe this summer intensively - including all major festivals (Montreux, Pori, Molde, San Sebastian, Barbican and so on) - and the results were fantastic. Super enthusiastic audiences everywhere.
Jamaica's multi Grammy Award winners and the heartbeat of the island will perform onstage with electro-jazz pioneer trumpet virtuoso Nils Petter Molvær and fellow Norwegian Eivind Aarset pluss finnish electronic-wiz Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti) for some unique shows in 2015 with a set of new material (organic blend of electronic / dub / jazz / world) composed specially for this tour. Let us know of your interest. AVAILABLE IN 2016. http://eepurl.com/bCxkPn

KORNSTAD ENSEMBLE
TENOR BATTLE
Kornstads new project is quite simply to fuse opera arias and jazz. Never has jazz and opera been mixed this way - never has a world renowned jazz musician suddenly turned into a promising opera tenor, refusing to leave his unique tenor saxophone sound behind. A real tenor battle! The sound of "Tenor Battle" is inspired from the 78 rpm-era of singing and jazz, where salon orchestras often switched between the classical hitparade and the popular music of the time. The sound, however is hard to describe. NEW ALBUM OUT NOW. AVAILABLE ON REQUEST 2016. http://eepurl.com/bhYIcf
 
Ketil Bjørnstad
There is something of the Renaissance Man about Ketil Bjornstad who is recognised as a unique figure in the arts in Norway. Trained as a concert pianist, he has recorded over thirty albums since 1973, including five volumes of solo piano and collaborations with both jazz and rock musicians. Alongside his music career, he has been equally prolific as a writer, with over 25 novels plus collections of poetry and  books of essays. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE

NILS ØKLAND
Nils Økland is a renowned master of Norway's national instrument the Hardanger fiddle. However, his musical outlook is far wider than just traditional music and his contributions diverse. Both as an instrumentalist and as a composer he interlaces elements of classical and contemporary music as well as jazz with traditional Norwegian expressions, finding common traits and not least common expressive mindsets across genres and time periods. Økland belongs to the category of musicians who have come to represent an individual sound and a musical sensibility that is completely their own. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE

TERJE RYPDAL
Starting out as a Hank Marvin-influenced rock guitarist with The Vanguards, Rypdal turned towards jazz in 1968 and joined Jan Garbarek's group and later George Russell's sextet and orchestra. An important step towards international attention was his participation in the free jazz festival in Baden-Baden, Germany in 1969, where he was part of a band led by Lester Bowie. During his musical studies at Oslo university and conservatory, he led the orchestra of the Norwegian version of the musical Hair. He has often recorded with ECM, both jazz-oriented material and classical compositions (some of which don't feature Rypdal's guitar). Today, Rypdal is an important member of the Norwegian jazz community. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE
 
SIDSEL ENDRESEN / STIAN WESTERHUS
Their debut recording from 2012, "Didymoi Dreams", was awarded with a much deserved Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannpris) and was applauded across the borders, with The Guardian concluding about its "power, originality and fearlessness" and BBC calling it "an enthralling listen". While "Didymoi Dreams" was a concert recording, "Bonita" is a live-in-the- studio recording, necessarily so because this is all improvised. Not that it´s easy to spot any major differences in that respect, anyone who have experienced this duo on stage can testify about their unique and telepathic musical dialogues, seemingly without the need to even look at each other. Whether on a stage or in a studio, their soundworld is magical, mysterious, beautiful and terrifying, all underpinned by the evocative song titles. AVAILABLE ON REQUEST 2016. MORE

JAN BANG / PUNKT
From his work as successful pop producer in the 1990s his creative thrust and pioneering work in developing the concept of live remix- improvising with electronics alongside more conventional instruments and performers -  has led today to  him being constantly in-demand  as producer and performer..There are times when it seems everything that has come before suddenly coalesces, reaches critical mass and engenders near-exponentially increased success and opportunity. For Jan Bang and Erik Honore, their Punkt live remix festival has evolved, since its early inception in Kristiansand, Norway, into a musical aesthetic brought to other festivals like Mannheim's Enjoy Jazz and Estonia's Jazzkaar. In ten years it's become a multinational event of world renown, its ever-expanding "Punkt Family" including a network of musicians that has— beyond Norwegian stalwarts like Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Sidsel Endresen—also welcomed British avant-songsmith David Sylvian, Estonian guitarist Robert Jürjendal, Japanese composer Dai Fujikura, and Spanish guitarist David Soler, amongst many others. AVAILABLE 2016. MORE

Christian Wallumrød has worked as a musician and composer since 1992, and he is considered one of the most prominent and influential musicians of his generation in Norway.  Following his debut on ECM Records (“No Birch”, issued in 1996), he has released a string of albums with Christian Wallumrød Ensemble (CWE) on the same label, all to considerable critical acclaim. The latest record ’Outstairs’ was rewarded with the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannsprisen 2013). While being the composer and leader of his own ensemble, Wallumrød also focusses strongly on improvisation with another longstanding collaboration, the French/Norwegian group Dans Les Arbres (DLA), also with two releases on ECM. CWE and DLA has been his main body of work over the last 10-12 years, and both groups are touring extensively. A quite recent project is Brutter, Christian’s collaboration with drummer brother Fredrik, a duo dive into human and machine driven pulses. Early 2015 is release time for his first solo album named Pianokammer (on the Norwegian label Hubro). AVAILABLE 2016. MORE