Nils Okland & Sigbjorn Apeland
Release Date: 17 November 2023
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Gate Fold
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
Tracklisting
Julia Hulsmann Octet
Heinz Holliger; Marie-Lise Schupbach
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Gary Peacock; Ralph Towner
Craig Taborn; Tomeka Reid; Ches Smith
Bjorn Meyer
Hakon Aase; Leo Svensson Sander; Ayumi Tanaka; Ole Morten Vagan; Thomas Stronen
Zakir Hussain; Hariprasad Chaurasia; John McLaughlin; Jan Garbarek
Keith Jarrett
Tara Milton
Zevon, Warren
Melvins
Dylan, Bob
Daniel Lanois
Dan O'Farrell & The Difference Engine
Amanda Bergman
Jim Ghedi
