Stein Urheim – Simple Pieces & Paper Cut-Outs (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:30 minutes | 346 MB | Genre: Blues
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No-frills fingerstyle masterclass blends hard-won solo skills with superb audiophile sound on LP or download, on Stein Urheim´s new album “Simple Pieces & Paper Cut-Outs” that will be out in August. It’s so good you don’t even have to play the guitar to enjoy it. If you do, there’s a 40-page musical score and tablature to help learn or adapt the tunes. And the good news is: the score is already available!
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Henry Kaiser, Stein Urheim, Benedicte Maurseth, Danielle DeGruttola – Be Here Whenever (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:04 minutes | 953 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Be Here Whenever is a perfect circle of nine creations by Danielle de Gruttola (Cello), Henry Kaiser (Guitar), Benedicte Maurseth (Hardanger Fiddle) and Stein Urheim (Guitar). It is music filled with the intense mindfulness that comes when one is confronted by nature at its most awe-inspiring, those places where one becomes acutely aware of how small they are within this world, never mind the cosmos beyond its thin atmosphere.
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Stein Urheim – Utopian Tales (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:16 minutes | 404 MB | Genre: Jazz, Experimental
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‘Utopian Tales’ offers strange yet beautiful soundscapes inspired by microtonality – the little gaps between the notes. Just as the rigid divisions of the well-tempered scale in Western music mirrored hierarchical structures in society at large, so microtonal music, which uses intervals smaller than a semi-tone, can be reflective of a freer and more fluid social order. Urheim´s ‘Utopian Tales’ takes this overlap between music and society as its subject, creating a richly imaginative riverine meander through multiple ideas and associations, drawing on references from speculative science fiction and countercultural communities to alternative art, architecture and philosophy. Musically, the journey covers an equally ambitious expanse of territory, touching on aspects of acoustic Americana through Urheim’s expert slide guitar playing, together with ambient electronic soundscapes and various diversions into contrasting musical cultures, with everything grounded by the unifying aesthetic of state-of-the-art contemporary jazz from a specially formed ensemble, The Cosmolodic Orchestra.
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Stein Urheim – Stein Urheim (2014/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:17 minutes | 417 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Things are looking up for Bergen-based Stein Urheim, a musician who, on the basis of Stein Urheim—his second release on Hubro after the vinyl/download-only Kosmolodi (2012) and third as a leader following his 2009 debut, Three Sets of Music—seems interested in just about anything with strings…and a few without. Beyond his own career, which includes work with Gabriel Fliflet´s Åresong and a guest appearance on The Last Hurrah!’s 2011 Rune Grammofon debut, Spiritual Non- Believers, his Stein and Mari collaboration with Mari Kvien Brunvoll—an electro- acoustic singer who, since enthralling a group of international guests at a church showcase, continues to garner significant attention— has been gaining ground of its own, the duo’s sophomore record, Daydream Twin (Jazzland, 2013), narrowly missing out on a Spellemannprisen (Norwegian Grammy) ultimately awarded to singer Susanna Wallumrod’s admittedly stellar collaboration with Ensemble neoN, The Forester (Susanna Sonata, 2013).
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