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Per Oddvar Johansen The Quiet Cormorant Losen Records LOS 237-1 835117 LOS 237-1 090025 7 of the title. The Quiet Cormorant far more than a guest appearance from Hedvig. When ‘Love, ‘Love, When from Hedvig. far more than a guest appearance like landscape it’s and Currywurst’ powers on to the album’s Peace a hymn to Nature, onto the beach, of the oceans wave the crash a party on the sands of time. from music, has already had a remarkable career in Oddvar Per such luminaries of the through working with early rock days, Seim or Solveig Trygve Wallumrød, Norwegian scene as Christian so what does this trio give him in demand, always He’s Slettahjell. rewarding and a very strange “It’s that isn’t answered elsewhere? he tells head”, thing to have someone play music from your own that floats or hovers, open music, “My goal is to create rubato, me. to think of it as weightless music.” I like is seen as a good omen, In Norwegian mythology the cormorant and knows when the time powerful bird that listens, a strong, himself Oddvar Per Maybe what we discover here is that is right. is Fiona Talkington December 2019 Thank you: Erik - for all your wonderful work all these years. Jan Helge and Hedvig - for your great contribution to this Torben, record. - for lending us your bass clarinet. Viddal Mathilde Grooss Odd Gjelsnes - for releasing this album with me. Lund and the others at to thank Håvard I would especially like for letting Arctic Hideaway, The aka Fleinvær, Fordypningsrommet It made many of these songs me stay a whole week in solitude. come to life. for letting me stay and work in the Berlin Also thank you NOPA apartment Ormen Lange. 180 gram vinyl 180 gram

‘Waltz for Hire’, ‘The Still’. If there is a journey here it’s a deeply If there is a journey here it’s Still’. ‘The for Hire’, ‘Waltz but it also becomes a personal one for Oddvar, personal one for Per fluid enough ‘playing with time’ means it’s idea of This the listener. to find ourselves inside the music too. creative solitude in wrote much of the music in quiet, Oddvar Per on a coastline near Bodø in northern Arctic Hideaway The the sounds of birds and the the light, where the Norwegian Sea, track (The palette. sense of space and distance become an artist’s own island.) ‘Sørvær Major Manor’ is named after the Hideaway’s in the trio. In his head were the sounds of his fellow musicians incorporating of “a unique way Helge Lien he describes as having Torben’s while he talks about a Norwegian sound in his playing”, control over his saxophone. his unbelievable and detail, phrasing playing, Helge’s in thoughtfulness much so perceive too, Audiences, sound Torben’s while a quiet passion as he leans into every note, the breath mattering as much as the notes. is profoundly songlike, is the guitarist Hedvig Mollestad, Joining the trio on two tracks another remarkable presence in Norwegian music in recent years. the rock- “I like Oddvar says Per “Hedvig is such a great musician” it’s Certainly, reminiscence it gives to the record as a whole”. © 2020 Losen Records www.losenrecords.no [email protected] [email protected] © 2020 Losen Records www.losenrecords.no Unauthorized duplication, All rights reserved. public performance and broadcasting of the music Made in EU. on this LP is a violation of applicable laws. Recorded July 3 & 4, 2017 by Erik Kongshaug 2017 by Jan Recorded July 3 & 4, Norway , at Rainbow Studio, Erik Kongshaug 2017 by Jan Mixed September 29, Johansen at Rainbow Studio Oddvar and Per Audun Strype 2019 by Mastered November 28 & 30, Oslo Audio, at Strype Johansen Oddvar Produced by Per Executive producer Odd Gjelsnes Johansen Oddvar cover photo by Per Front Cover design by design holtmann made possible with support from release was The for lyd og bilde Fond read like the titles read like The Quiet Cormorant The Quiet Cormorant 3:41 The Quiet Cormorant 4:55 Hire For Waltz House (by the sea) 7:21 Brown The Njalla Suite 6:27 Island Movies 3:26 3:10 & Currywurst Peace Love, The Still 3:27 Sørvær Major Manor 5:49 4:31 Keys A Ballad In Popular 2 3 4 Time 22:20 Total Side B 1 2 3 4 5 Time 20:20 Total vibraphone drums, Oddvar Johansen Per Helge Lien piano bass clarinet Snekkestad saxophone, tenor & soprano Torben 2 Side B A & track 3 Side Hedvig Mollestad guitar on track TONO/POJ Johansen © Oddvar All compositions by Per Side A 1 of a collection of short stories, or of miniature paintings on the wall or of miniature paintings on the wall of a collection of short stories, ‘Brown House (by the sea)’, ‘Island Movies’, of a gallery: The Quiet Cormorant wonderful about the choreography is something rather There whether poise, they sit with their dancer-like how of a drummer, almost whispering their or whether they’re full flight, in they’re How I envy wing. caressing a bird with a broken like music, dancing with stretching it, ‘inhabit’ time, ability to a drummer’s Johansen has this Oddvar Per making mischief. interrupting it, it, they simply physical connection with his drums, extraordinary singing their a deep sense of listening, sharing belong together, own mysterious language. with music out of this relationship with his instruments, it’s So, have grown. compositions Oddvar’s that Per itself and with nature, Snekkestad Torben with pianist Helge Lien and sax player Together Dance’ with its infectious physicality ‘Let’s he created the album while exploring a musical world left behind and clear lyrical lines, a world which Per Motian who died in 2011, by the great Paul in danger of disappearing. felt was Oddvar on titles of the 9 tracks The