Into The Wild Hills - Starter Kit Morten Halle

• 1 Fire og seks 07:02
• 2 The obstacle 03:40
• 3 At a chateau nearby 05:28
• 4 I got 00:47
• 5 En av dem 05:24
• 6 Batikk 02:56
• 7 Dikemark #1 07:09
• 8 The Congress 05:46
• 9 Starter Kit 10:04
• 10 Retro 04:18
• Total Runtime 52:34

Info for Into The Wild Hills - Starter Kit

The title "Starter Kit" refers to the new discoveries you can make when you try something for the first time: The toy is unpacked, the parts are assembled and a new world opens up. The music is simple and accessible but contains small obstacles, edges and sharp corners that can surprise and challenge both the musicians and the listeners. Some of the material is small written pieces, others are just a few chords or an idea formulated with lyrics.

This is the band's second album, recorded at Musikkloftet Studio in Asker in February 2022 with Vidar Lunden as engineer. The sound on the album is natural, clear and transparent. The album places itself in the Nordic jazz tradition - you can hear that the musicians have references back to the 70's but the composition and material takes these ideas into a new and slightly different landscape - sometimes open and inviting, sometimes a little difficult to navigate but with new surprises waiting around the next corner.

The music was recorded at Musikkloftet Studio in Asker in February 2022 with Vidar Lunden as engineer. The sound on the album is natural, clear and transparent. The album places itself in the Nordic jazz tradition - you can hear that the musicians have references back to the 70s, but the composition and material take these ideas into a new and slightly different landscape - sometimes open and inviting, sometimes a little difficult to navigate but with new surprises waiting around the next corner.

Morten Halle, saxophone, flute
Gunnar Halle, trumpet
Helge Lien, piano
Christian Meeas Svendsen, bass
Andreas Wildhagen, drums

Morten Halle
born 1957, lives in Oslo, Norway. Saxophonist and composer.

Halle has played with a large number of Norwegian bands, and has also been active internationally with Jon Balkes Magnetic North Orchestra (1992-2002) and Geir Lysne (1999 to 2009). He has also worked as a producer for Sidsel Endresen, Solveig Slettahjell and "Come Shine". He has received the Norwegian states three year grant for artists both as a musician and a composer. Commisions includes work for the jazz festivals in Molde, Lillehammer and Kongsberg as well as the Bergen International Festival. Halle has also composed, performed and recorded music for a large number of films, theater and ballet productions.

Halle has lived in Oslo all is life except the late seventies when he spent two years in Copenhagen. He studied Musicology at the university in Oslo 1979-1981. He is married to Marit Tovsen who he met in 1980 and married in 1995. Together they have two daughters: Architect Maja (born 1987) and movie director Mariken (born 1982). He is the son of stage director Barthold Halle (1925) and Lone Halle (1920, Jacobsen by birth, passed away in 1991) and the brother of playwright Jesper Halle (1956).

This album contains no booklet.