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Susanna & the Magical Orchestra
“Trail of souls”: In The Country, Knut Reiersrud and Solveig Slettahjell, 2016 1 out of 4 Technical rider PA- system: Equipment quality: Sound equipment must be of high standard and free from audible noise. Mixing desk must be placed centrally in a good listening position in the audience area (NOT IN THE FAR BACK CORNER ETC.) to ensure good control possibilities. Sound system must be rigged and tested for functionality before the artist arrives for set-up and sound check. A local system engineer must be available for the artist’s own engineer at all times from sound check to end of concert. Sound system: High quality, powerful, active PA system with sub woofers covering all audience areas with uniform and undistorted sound (Pref. EAW, D&B, Meyer, L’acoustic or similar). The system must be stereo. Mono is not accepted. Monitor system: 6 wedges on 6 separate aux sends. EQ on every output. Monitors are mixed from FOH. IMPORTANT! The musicians must have accurate and powerful monitors (no exceptions!), for example d&b M2 or MAX (not MAX12) or similar cabinets from EAW or Meyer Sound. Mixing console: Minimum 29 microphone channels (check input list). If analog: We prefer MIDAS, Soundcraft or similar, with minimum 4 band input-EQ (2 sweep mid-filters) and high-pass filters on all inputs. min. 10 auxes (6 pre, 4 post fader). If Digital mixing console: Soundcraft Vi4/Vi6 or Yamaha CL5 or other similar desks. (Soundcraft Si- series or Yamaha LS9 are not accepted). Please contact us beforehand on brand and model to make sure we can use the console for this project. -
Trail of Souls Rider 2015
“Trail of souls”: In The Country, Knut Reiersrud and Solveig Slettahjell, 2015 1 out of 4 Technical rider PA- system: Equipment quality: Sound equipment must be of high standard and free from audible noise. Mixing desk must be placed centrally in a good listening position in the audience area (NOT IN THE FAR BACK CORNER ETC.) to ensure good control possibilities. Sound system must be rigged and tested for functionality before the artist arrives for set-up and sound check. A local system engineer must be available for the artist’s own engineer at all times from sound check to end of concert. Sound system: High quality, powerful, active PA system with sub woofers covering all audience areas with uniform and undistorted sound (Pref. EAW, D&B, Meyer, L’acoustic or similar). The system must be stereo. Mono is not accepted. Monitor system: 6 wedges on 6 separate aux sends. EQ on every output. Monitors are mixed from FOH. IMPORTANT! The musicians must have accurate and powerful monitors (no exceptions!), for example d&b M2 or MAX (not MAX12) or similar cabinets from EAW or Meyer Sound. Mixing console: 31 microphone channels (check input list). If analog: We prefer MIDAS, Soundcraft or similar, with minimum 4 band input-EQ (2 sweep mid-filters) and high-pass filters on all inputs. min. 10 auxes (8 pre, 2 post fader). If Digital mixing console: Soundcraft Vi4/Vi6 or Yamaha CL5 or other similar desk. Please contact us beforehand on brand and model. Outboard: - 2 high quality digital reverb units. It must be one of these models: Lexicon 480L, 960, 300, PCM96/92, TC Electronic M3000, Reverb 4000, system 6000 or Bricasti M7 - 1 Digital Delay unit with tap-tempo button. -
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic II
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic II Norwegian Woods ACT 9569-2 German Release Date: June 6th, 2014 A blues guitar introduces the melody , restrained, elegiac and In doing so she is supported by her partner of many years yet full of energy. A clear, female voice takes over, its power from Slettahjell's Slow Motion Quintet, Morton Qvenild. potentiated by its uncanny serenity. A piano gathers together the This ingenious universalist of young Norwegian jazz has already theme one more time before all of them, joined by an additional tried everything out; from pop to metal. But since 2003 his trio In trio, take it through a mightily dynamic loop until it tapers out The Country, with drummer Pål Hausken and bassist Roger almost to nothing in the end. "Ingen Vinner Frem Til Den Evige Ro" Arntzen has been the undisputed leading force. The structural is the name of the old Norwegian church song that Knut principles practiced here – soundscapes grow into finely Reiersrud, Solveig Slettahjell, Bugge Wesseltoft and In The differentiated dialogues, mighty domes of sound evolve into pastel Country transform so fascinatingly into a modern Nordic hymn in chamber-jazz or electronically embellished sound pictures – come the sold-out Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie. into their own on "Norwegian Woods", especially in "Can I Come Home Now". It was another one of those magic moments that the "Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic" series so reliably produces. Pianist Bugge Wesseltoft, just turned 50, is one of the Founded in 2012 and curated by Siggi Loch, the idea was to craft pioneers of the young Norwegian jazz generation, and he inimitable evenings by means of thematic concentration, but most represents the two most important directions of modern of all with stirring, often first-time encounters between outstanding Norwegian jazz, both dated 1997. -
Record Number Sent out by Force
(Periodicals postage paid at Seattle, WA) TIME DATED MATERIAL — DO NOT DELAY This week on Norway.com This week in the paper Singer Macy Gray Want Lutefisk, visits Å være fornøyet med lite, er vanskelig; å være will travel Moods of Norway fornøyet med meget, er umulig. - ukjent Read more Read more at blog.norway.com on page 8 Norwegian American Weekly Vol. 121, No. 2 January 15, 2010 7301 Fifth Avenue NE Suite A, Seattle, WA 98115 Tel (800) 305-0217 • www.norway.com $1.50 per copy Online News Dateline Oslo Record number sent out by force Severely cold weather More than 4,000 causes car chaos people without With with the extremely cold temperatures cars supply stores legal residence across Norway have complete- were sent out of ly sold out of engine warm- ers, car batteries, and jumper Norway last year. cables. The high demand for Three out of four such products is causing chaos at many local stores. People were sent out by are now waiting 14-days for force engine heaters, though most of the car supply stores don’t NRK reccomend starting your car in the extreme freezing tempera- tures. (NRK) It was just before Christmas when 30 Iraqis were deported Lower electricity prices from Norway. Eleven of them were convicted of violence, rape or in 2009 drug trafficking. It was the largest The average price of electric- transport of asylum seekers out of ity for households was 32.1 the country that police conducted øre per kilowatt hour (kWh), in 2009. Photo: Norwegian Police excluding grid rent and taxes, In December last year, 30 Iraqis were sent out of the country in a major action. -
Solveig Slettahjell Knut Reiersrud & in the Country Trail of Souls ACT 9593-2
Solveig Slettahjell Knut Reiersrud & In The Country Trail of Souls ACT 9593-2 German release date: November 27, 2015 “Connecting the unexpected” is the motto of Jazz at Then followed a huge amount of careful preparation Berlin Philharmonic, a concert series curated and produced and several rehearsals in Morten Qvenild's private studio, by ACT label boss Siggi Loch, which began in December after which all the musicians ended up in the celebrated 2012. A carefully selected unifying theme runs through each Rainbow Studio in Oslo to give the original idea a definitive programme, alongside imaginative juxtapositions of shape. All eleven tracks, with the exception of the final musicians brought together specifically for the occasion, in number, a song composed by Reiersrud, are blues and some cases for the first time. This formula has not just gospel classics in the broadest sense. There are three from proved a hit with audiences; musicians have also taken to it stars of pop and soul music - Bill Withers “Grandma's with a particular zeal. The artists and the spectators who Hand”, Peter Gabriel's “Mercy Street” and Leonard attended the ‘Norwegian Woods’ edition of the series in Cohen's “Come Healing” - but beyond those the others are March 2014 experienced an amazing evening. Loch had the kind of tunes only familiar to initiates such as Reiersrud. assembled the A-team of Norwegian jazz, and created the “We did all rummage through our record collections and unexpected by combining them with a guest artist from a chose a few old work songs and spirituals together,” says different musical realm: Slettahjell, “but Knut is the really knowledgeable one among us.” Solveig Slettahjell was one such artist welcomed back into the fold. -
In the Country in the Country
In The Country SSSunsetSunset Sunrise ACT 9549548 888----2222 German Release DateDate:: 222222.0.0.0.02222....2012012013333 In view of ththee large number of outstanding NorwegianNorwegian And they succeed remarkably well: The first track "Birch Song" musicians, it can be easy to forget just how few people live in is first permeated by the typically sweet, chromatic minor key Norway, and how small and close-knit the music scene there of Nordic music, from Edvard Grieg to Jan Garbarek through is. Perhaps that is why Norwegian jazz musicians are so to Esbjörn Svensson – until the initially delicate, almost outgoing – a project with classical colleagues here, a pop gig classical melody drifts off into quiet, menacing depths infused there, when it comes down to it they're all friends. One good with squeaking sounds and dark chord storms. "Birch" doesn't example of this is pianist Morten Qvenild. This 33 year-old from only stand for the tree, but also for the birch rod used for Kongsberg, who began in a big band before studying jazz at public castigation, and hence for pain, Qvenild cheerfully the Norwegian music academy in Oslo, has played with a notes. Also "Derrick", inspired only vaguely by the television remarkable variety of bands since then. The spectrum ranges series of the same name, contrasts its initially almost from the acoustic metal-jazz quartet "Shining" and the jazz-rock mechanistically introduced theme with an unreal clicking bands "Jaga Jazzist" and "The National Bank" with the brothers sound, until it overturns into a bouncing groove fired on by Lars and Martin Horntveth, to the pop group "Ostenfor Sol", resounding chords. -
The Hyper(Sonal) Piano Project
Morten Qvenild The HyPer(sonal) Piano Project towards a (per)sonal topography of grand piano and electronics The HyPer(sonal) Piano Project towards a (per)sonal topography of grand piano and electronics [interactive pdf] Morten Qvenild This text, the albums Personal Piano and the Karman Line the HyPer(sonal) Piano and the final concerts at NMH 16-17 August 2016, materialize the artistic research project . The project has been conducted at the Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH) with support from the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, from 2012 to 2016. Accessing audio and video material: Printed version: Find the artistic results, video and audio examples and other documentation lined up through this link. Follow the examples on a computer or tablet while reading. Interactivewww.mortyq.com/hpp/ PDF version: Click theView icons / Page throughout Display the/ Enable text. An Scrolling. internet connection is needed. Interactive Pdf must be read in Adobe Reader to ensure multimedial functionality. It is recommended to Credits:enable scrolling through clicking First supervisor: Henrik Hellstenius Second Supervisors: Øyvind Brandtsegg and Eivind Buene Cover photo by Jørn Stenersen, www.anamorphiclofi.com All other photo, audio and video recording/editing by Morten Qvenild, unless stated. © Morten Qvenild E-post: [email protected] Sats: 07 Media. Oslo, 2016 Contents I INTRO ....................................................................................................................6 .......................................................................................................................................................................................... -
Ears Wide Open
» BY PETER MARGASAK » PHOTO BY MICHAEL JACKSON In The Country Leads a Norwegian Creative Movement Ears Wide Open here are about two jazz clubs in Oslo,” said Norwegian there’s got to be something raw behind it.” pianist Morten Qvenild about the relatively small size of “Some of my artists come from jazz and draw on jazz but only TNorway’s jazz scene. In fact, the entire country of Norway few of the releases would be seen as jazz by most people,” said has a population that’s about half of New York City. But over the Rune Kristoffersen, the owner of Rune Grammofon. “On the other last decade the city has emerged as one of the most fertile and excit- hand, if you say that improvised music per definition is jazz, then a ing breeding grounds for cutting-edge creative music, where a half lot of my releases are jazz. But I don’t necessarily see it that way. dozen indie labels are capturing a singular esthetic at work. Lately we’ve had music academies that encourage students to break “One of the reasons that the sound of improvised music is differ- free and find their own voice. People who love music with a strong ent in Norway is that it’s outside everything—it’s a mountain coun- dedication are not happy to only listen to or work with one type of try and we’re not in the European Union,” said Stian Carstensen, the music. That’s restrictive for your development. ” multi-instrumentalist who leads the quirky Bulgarian-tinged Indeed, Qvenild points out that nearly every musician working in Norwegian band Farmers Market. -
June 2011 Vol
A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community June 2011 Vol. 27, No. 6 EARSHOT JAZZSeattle, Washington Jazz: The Second Century Concert series highlighting new music by resident ensembles Janet Putnam, Tom Baker, Mike Sentkewitz, Andrew Boscardin, Ryan Burke, Bruce Greeley Rob Hanlon, Andy Clausen, Dave Anderson, Devin Lowe, Brad Boal Dave Abramson, Paul Hoskin, Greg Campbell, Evan Woodle, Gus Carns Photo by Daniel Sheehan NOTES Jazz Journalists Association The gala raises funds for JJA edu- Jazz Awards to Recognize John cational efforts and activities aimed Gilbreath at developing new audiences for jazz. Pianist Randy Weston headlines the These include the eyeJAZZ video artist lineup for the fifteenth annual training program, audience enrich- Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz ment programs at jazz festivals and Awards gala, Saturday, June 11, 1pm- educational institutions, initiatives us- 5pm, ET, at City Winery in New York ing social media to activate under-ad- City. The Jazz Awards will stream as dressed segments of the potential jazz live video, viewable online (and later audience, and establishment of online archived) at JJAJazzAwards.org. Free platforms for jazz journalists. satellite parties convene to watch the Registration open for the Ev Stern awards in various cities, including here Jazz Workshop Summer Session in Seattle, as well as Berkeley, Boston, The July issue of this publication Nashville, Phoenix, Portland, and Open to All - Free will include a profile of Ev Stern, the Washington, DC. The Seattle satellite founder of the Jazz Workshop, cre- party is at Egan’s Ballard Jam House, ated in 1994 to nurture aspiring jazz June 11, 10am. -
Download That Comes with the Vinyl Recording, Born, New York-Based Bassist Does Not Like to Ence
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