Erlend Viken – Sastrugi (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Erlend Viken – Sastrugi (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:56 minutes | 625 MB | Genre: Jazz, World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Heilo

Erlend Viken has composed a striking and personal work in the winter, performed together with a stellar team of musicians. Frida Ånnevik has contributed two lyrics, sung by Ellen Andrea Wang and Marius Graff. Erlend is one of Norway’s most accomplished folk musicians and in recent years has invested in his trio Erlend Viken Trio, which takes the folk music out of the box and shows a strong need for exploration. This commissioning work further emphasizes the exploration of the exploration, the different phases of winter from the last to the highly rhythmic, through a work in which the peculiar features of folk music are shrouded in the background of fellow musicians in jazz and pop.

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Erlend Viken, Jo Berger Myhre, Thomas Strønen – Djupet (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Erlend Viken, Jo Berger Myhre, Thomas Strønen – Djupet (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:39 minutes | 584 MB | Genre: World, Ethnic Jazz, Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © OK World

“Djupet” began as a commissioned work co-composed by Jo Berger Myhre and Erlend Viken for the Ultima Festival and Riksscenen in 2020. Together, with dancers Ida Wigdel, Ådne Kolbjørnhus and Katja Schia, they explored the common ecstatic potential of, and the links between, folk, improvisational and electronic dance music. Thomas Pohlitz Strønen was producer, and when they recorded the music the week after the premiere, the duo became a trio.

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