Kjølvatn Nils Økland Band
Album info
Album-Release:
2015
HRA-Release:
22.06.2015
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- 1 Mali 04:06
- 2 Undergrunn 06:19
- 3 Drev 04:21
- 4 Kjølvatn 05:17
- 5 Puls 08:17
- 6 Fivreld 05:14
- 7 Start 03:06
- 8 Skugge 03:47
- 9 Blå harding 04:48
- 10 Amstel 04:07
Info for Kjølvatn
Nach seiner viel gelobten Zusammenarbeit mit Rockmusikern auf Lumen Drones erscheint nun das nächste Album des norwegischen Geigers. Øklands neue Band offeriert ruhigere, aber hoch kreative Musik. Die Musiker auf Kjølvatn sind aus diversen Kontexten bekannt. Das elegante Bassspiel Mats Eilertsens war schon auf ECM-Aufnahmen von Tord Gustavsen, Trygve Seim, Wolfert Brederode und Jacob Young zu hören. Håkon Stene zählt zu den gefragtesten klassischen Schlagwerkern Norwegens. Der Harmonist Sigbjørn Apeland arbeitete bereits bei Lysøen – Hommage à Ole Bull mit Økland zusammen und Saxophonist Rolf-Erik Nylstrøm spielte im „Trio Poing“ mit Frode Haltli.
Die Kompositionen auf Kjølvatn stammen weitgehend aus der Feder Øklands, wobei jedes Bandmitglied zu den Arrangements beiträgt. Nils beschreibt es so: „Ich habe mich in all den Jahren einem breiten Spektrum von klassischer Geige über Folklore des Balkans, hin zu Rock, Jazz, freier Improvisation und norwegischer Volksmusik gewidmet, jedoch immer meine eigene Musik komponiert. Im frühen Barock war es üblich neue Musik auf Grundlage von groben Entwürfen entstehen zu lassen. Unsere Arbeitsweise ist maßgeblich von dieser Methode beeinflusst.“
Nils Økland, viola d'amore, hardanger fiddle, violin
Rolf-Erik Nylstrøm, saxophone
Sigbjørn Apeland, harmonium
Håkon Mørch Stene, percussion, vibraphone
Mats Eilertsen, double bass
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.
Nils Økland er en av Norges fremste felespillere, en fornyer av tradisjonell folkemusikk, også kjent for å bygge broer til klassisk og moderne musikk. Nils Økland komponerer det meste av musikken selv, fra vakre melodiske ballader og atmosfæriske eksperimenter, til de mørkere lydbilder.
“Lysøen: Homage à Ole Bull”, the brand-new album by Norwegian violinist and Hardanger fiddler Nils Økland and countryman Sigbjørn Apeland (piano, harmonium) is off to a flying start with a major review in Germany’s leading weekly Die Zeit, where writer Volker Hagedorn praises the duo’s sensitive tribute to Norway’s iconic violinist-composer, Ole Bull (1810-1880). Økland and Apeland are the first musicians to have recorded at Bull’s home on the island of Lysøen. Nils uses, amongst other instruments, Bull’s old Guarneri; Sigbjørn employs, among other keyboards, the harmonium once played by Bull’s young American wife, as the old violinist lay dying in the music room of his villa.
“Once, someone was happy here. Anyone who hears these pieces understands that there can be no happiness untouched by melancholy. As Franz Liszt said about Bull, ‘His playing moved me. It’s a long time since that last happened.’” ECM.
Booklet for Kjølvatn