Nils Okland & Sigbjorn Apeland
Release Date: 30 June 2023
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602448419620
Release Date: 17 November 2023
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602455731753
Description
Violinist Nils Okland and keyboardist Sigbjorn Apeland, musical partners for thirty years, have long explored the interface of Norwegian traditional music and improvisation.
Glimmer, an exceptionally beautiful and touching album, takes as its starting point folk music from the Haugalandet region of Western Norway. Apeland's collection of pieces from local singers who have helped to keep the traditions alive forms the basis of the repertoire here, along with original compositions. The latter range from pieces written for a film about Lars Hertevig, the great Norwegian landscape painter of the 19th century, to music inspired by modernist composer Fartein Valen.
Throughout, the combination of Okland's Hardanger fiddle and Apeland's harmonium is marvellously evocative.
Nils Okland: Hardanger fiddle, violin
Sigbjorn Apeland: harmonium
Press:
"It's very rare to encounter music as beautiful as this, that can be returned to again and again and release new pleasures every time." - LondonJazz News
"Jazz it isn't - but it would be a strange jazz enthusiast of the music of, say, Jan Garbarek, Ketil Bjørnstad or Trygve Seim, Karl Seglem or Mette Henriette who would not want to spend some appreciable time engaging with such exquisitely wrought aural poetry as is to be relished here." - Jazz Journal
Description
Violinist Nils Okland and keyboardist Sigbjorn Apeland, musical partners for thirty years, have long explored the interface of Norwegian traditional music and improvisation. Glimmer, an exceptionally beautiful and touching album, takes as its starting point folk music from the Haugalandet region of Western Norway. Apeland's collection of pieces from local singers who have helped to keep the traditions alive forms the basis of the repertoire here, along with original compositions. The latter range from pieces written for a film about Lars Hertevig, the great Norwegian landscape painter of the 19th century, to music inspired by modernist composer Fartein Valen.
Throughout, the combination of Okland's Hardanger fiddle and Apeland's harmonium is marvellously evocative.
Nils Okland: Hardanger fiddle, violin
Sigbjorn Apeland: harmonium
Press:
"It's very rare to encounter music as beautiful as this, that can be returned to again and again and release new pleasures every time." - LondonJazz News
"Jazz it isn't - but it would be a strange jazz enthusiast of the music of, say, Jan Garbarek, Ketil Bjørnstad or Trygve Seim, Karl Seglem or Mette Henriette who would not want to spend some appreciable time engaging with such exquisitely wrought aural poetry as is to be relished here." - Jazz Journal
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Various artists
Yuval Cohen Quartet
Thomas Stronen; Craig Taborn; Chris Potter; Sinikka Langeland; Jorge Rossy
Stephan Micus
Rainer Bruninghaus
Paul Bley
Mathias Eick; Kristjan Randalu; Ole Morten Vagan; Hans Hulbaekmo
Julia Hulsmann Quartet
Piers Faccini & Ballake Sissoko
Julie Fowlis
Cynefin
P.J. & Marcus Hernon
Will Stratton
Manntra
Peter Howell and John Fernando
Ithaca (Peter Howell and John Ferdinando)
