Elias Akselsen, Ola Kvernberg & Stian Carstensen – Horta (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 38:12 minutes | 406 MB | Genre: Folk
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A slice of Norwegian cultural history in album form a unique interpretation of traditional Norwegian Travellers’ songs.
Elias Akselsen, Ola Kvernberg and Stian Carstensen take us on a journey through Norwegian music history. The album’s title, “Horta”, means “authentic” in the language of the Travellers, Romani. Elias Akselsen (74) is a member of the oldest generation who knew and can remember the “authentic” life of the Travellers, and is today one of the foremost representatives of the musical heritage of the Norwegian Travellers/Roma. He was born on the road and learned to play and sing the traditional songs while gathered around the bonfire with his relatives. He has a deep and inborn appreciation of these songs.
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Ola Kvernberg & The Trondheim Soloists – The Mechanical Fair (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:47 minutes | 981 MB | Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Classical
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In 2012 Ola Kvernberg won the highly regarded Kongsberg Jazz Award, which inspired him to write Mechanical Fair for the next Kongsberg festival. With this work as a starting point, Kvernberg has composed entirely new material where full integration of the acclaimed Trondheim Soloists is central. Get ready for a dynamic and ambitious performance!
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Ola Kvernberg & The Trondheim Soloists – The Mechanical Fair Live (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:51 minutes | 715 MB | Genre: Classical
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Ola Kvernberg’s Steamdome was for at least one listener the most sensationally visceral album to come his way during 2018. Part future-jazz, part EDM, part avant-rock, part contemporary-classical, wrap-around shamanistic. It was Kvernberg’ follow-up to 2014’s The Mechanical Fair, which has now been issued in an extensively recalibrated version recorded live at the Molde International Jazz Festival in 2016.
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Ola Kvernberg – Steamdome II: The Hypogean (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:37 minutes | 704 MB | Genre: Jazz, Electronic
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On “Steamdome II: The Hypogean”, Ola Kvernberg presents an even more souped-up crew than last time, still shamelessly mixing genres and with a newly-won desire to jolt you out of your home office and give you an hour of music therapy, free of pandemics and global disasters in general.
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