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Norwegian pianist Kjetil Husebø's Steps marks a drastic shift from the album that precedes it, Morphing Between Spaces and Phases (OSP 005LP), released in 2014 under his Skyggespill alias. Steps also diverges from Husebø's other earlier albums (Contradictions (OSP 002CD, 2012) and Sources (OSP 003CD, 2013)), on which he combined the utterly complex sound universe of the grand piano with live sampling and electronic wizardry, and from his 2010 album as Optical Substance, Adaptation (OSP 001CD), on which the music is composed, programmed, and produced in collaboration with several guest musicians. Although Steps is Husebø's third piano album, it is his first entirely acoustic endeavor, distinguished by its exclusion of any components of composed, electronic music. The music on Steps was improvised and recorded in a short session at RainbowStudio, Oslo, in December 2014. Alone with a Steinway model D grand piano, Husebø explores his personal, melodic, abstract, rhythmical, playful, meditative music as he has never done before, situating his musical landscape between jazz, contemporary music, classical, and folk music. Engineered and mixed by the legendary Jan Erik Kongshaug as master of ceremony.
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2012 release. When Kjetil Husebø released his album Adaptation in 2010, the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv made use of a metaphor linked to the natural world, as his music was described as operating within the realm of jazz and electronica in the same manner as powdery snow covers a steep mountain, thus accentuating its subtle and funky characteristics. With Contradictions, Kjetil presents a musical universe that comprises other musical qualities than before. Being the artistic core of Optical Substance, Kjetil has previously released two albums. Contradictions constitutes the first album that is entirely Kjetil's work. This album features Kjetil in musical improvisation on a magnificent Steinway grand piano recorded live at Ibsenhuset/Audiopol Studio with Audun Kleive as sound technician. It was mixed and mastered by Reidar Skaar. The music on this release combines melodic, lyric, and pensive passages with a refined, abstract, dark and free-flowing atmosphere. As a musician, Kjetil gathers inspiration from a muster of sources such as jazz, classical music, folk music, ambient, contemporary music and pop/rock. As a pianist, such masterful musicians as Bugge Wesseltoft, Jon Balke, Marcin Wasilewski and Django Bates, among others, have influenced him. Kjetil Husebø: Steinway D Grand Piano and live electronics/sampling.
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Pianist and live electronics engineer Kjetil Husebø presents his solo album Sources, where he further develops his concept and expression of previous album Contradictions (2012). All About Jazz wrote the following about Contradictions: "... the success of this album is based on the cumulative effect of his disarming, innocent and highly melodic ambiance, wooden lingers long after the album has finished. An intriguing musical journey." Kjetil has also released two albums under the name Optical Substance (Adaptation in 2010 and Sub Luna in 2005), where the music was composed, programmed, produced and performed with numerous guest musicians. The solo project, however, is improvised and focuses mainly on the grand piano. He explores his personal, melodic, rhythmic, abstract, playful, flowing, sound-based, drone-like and contemplative musical universe with the Steinway grand piano and live sampling/electronics. In six out of a total of ten tracks he connects the different organic sounds of the grand piano with live sampling/electronics. The title Sources refers to both the piano as an instrument and the piano sound as a source for live sampling, not to mention numerous sources that have influenced Husebø's musical expression. The music straddles the border between jazz, classical, contemporary, ambient and electronica. The album was recorded live in the studio -- i.e. without overdubbing, in Audiopol Studio/Ibsenhuset in Skien with Audun Kleive as sound engineer. Husebø also mixed the album in his own studio in Oslo. The album was mastered by Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab in Oslo.
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