Browse by Artist: OKLAND, NILS

Artist:	OKLAND, NILS
Title:	Bris
Label:	RUNE GRAMMOFON (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RCD 2042CD

"Nils Økland is an innovative violinist and Hardanger fiddle specialist who is creatively expanding the range of the traditional music of his homeland. He is a renewer of folk music, consistently building bridges to classical, contemporary and improvised musics. His playing combines freedom with respect for Norway's musical heritage. He is concerned both with the preservation of the oral folk music tradition and with the experimental possibilities of the music when it is charged with modern impulses. Bris, meaning 'Breeze', is Økland´s third album, his second for Rune Grammofon, and the first where practically all the material is written by himself. This is quite unusual for the genre, but only emphasizes his interest to move in new directions and to explore new possibilities in his instruments and his playing, both solo and with a group. The group assembled for this recording is in itself ample proof of genre crossing, with Sigbjørn Apeland the only one left from previous albums Blå Harding and Straum (RCD 2015). Per Oddvar Johansen and Mats Eilertsen (Food, etc.) are young veterans of the flowering Norwegian jazz scene, while Håkon Stene, who appeared on Jono El Grande´s Fevergreens (RCD 2031), comes from the classical world. Parts of the album are based on music Økland wrote for Melankolia, a play based on Jon Fosse´s novel about the Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig (1830-1902)."

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Artist:	ØKLAND, NILS
Title:	Straum
Label:	RUNE GRAMMOFON (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RCD 2015CD

"Nils Økland is one of Norway's most remarkable fiddlers, a renewer of traditional folk music, building bridges to classical, contemporary and improvised music. His music combines freedom and tradition -- he is concerned with the tradition of passing music by word of mouth and at the same time to see it in a fruitful meeting with modern impulses. Hallvard Kvale, an authority on Norwegian folk music and the founder of Norway's biggest and longest running record company for traditional music, Helio, names Nils Økland a visionary, the best thing to happen to Norwegian folk music in decades, and the closest the tradition has come to a Miles Davis." Økland (Hardanger fiddle, violin), Sigbørn Apeland (harmonium, piano, organ), Torbjørn Økland (guitar, trumpet), Pål Thorstensen (double bass), Åsne Valland (vocal).

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