Karl Seglem

Karl Seglem – Ei aning grønt (a sense of green) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:02 minutes | 451 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NYE NOR

This album is a collections of compositions for tenor sax, recorded with different musicians I have been so lucky to work with over both short and long periods. It´s not a best of album, but it points out some new directions in my music. Even if songs like „Rit again“ goes way back, the time frame of recording this material is 2017-2022. I felt the time was ripe to focus on my main instrument and make an album. The goat horn adventures has without doubt inspired my way of playing the tenorsax – and opposite. The keywords for me are breath and klang. Music takes time and you have to be patient. Breathing through this piece of metal for so many years has given me a signature. I often get the question: Is it jazz? I often answer: I don´t know. It is KarlSeglemMusic and I improvise too. My inspirations are many and diverted. Nature, people, art, food, cities, wine – to mention a few. And maybe my main inspiration is to be on stage and play concerts with fellow musicians that also love what we do? Live music is still the highest (and healing) force for me.

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Karl Seglem – Norskjazz.no (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:38 minutes | 464 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ozella

The traditional music of Norway is a springboard for the improvisations of tenor saxophone and ram’s horn player Karl Segrum. While Dirty Linen praised him for his “atonally jazzy meanderings (that) bring traditional Norwegian folk music squarely into the 21st century”, Cadence explained, “at the heart is passionate yet restrained blowing”, and Listen to Norway Magazine proclaimed “we are witnessing the devil fiddler’s answer to John Coltrane”. With his 25th album, ‘Norskjazz.no’, Karl Seglem presents us with an amazing jazz record in a class all of its own.

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