Nils Okland & Sigbjorn Apeland - Glimmer - 5573175

Glimmer

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Cat No: 4841962CD

Release Date: 30 June 2023

Label: ECM

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 602448419620

Genres: Jazz Folk

Release Date: 17 November 2023

Label: ECM

Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 602455731753

Genres: Jazz Folk

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 BjÃ¸rnstad 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

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 BjÃ¸rnstad 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
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Tracklisting