Kim Rysstad, Arve Henriksen‎, Tord Gustavsen – Villfarande barn (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Kim Rysstad, Arve Henriksen‎, Tord Gustavsen - Villfarande barn (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

Kim Rysstad, Arve Henriksen‎, Tord Gustavsen – Villfarande barn (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:40 minutes | 553 MB | Genre: Jazz, Folk, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kirkelig Kulturverksted

Whatever one thinks and believes about salvation, sin and grace, one must have a heart of stone not to believe in Kim Rysstad when he interprets old spiritual songs such as “Jesus din søde forening at smake”, “Villfarande barn” and ” Langt Inn På Ville Heii”.
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Tord Gustavsen, Simin Tander & Jarle Vespestad – What Was Said (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Tord Gustavsen, Simin Tander & Jarle Vespestad – What Was Said (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:55 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Chamber Jazz, Nordic Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

What was said brings new colours to Tord Gustavsen’s musical palette. His latest trio project builds upon the subtle understanding of his long musical association with drummer Jarle Vespestad, introduces the entrancing Afghan-German vocalist Simin Tander, and explores the tradition of Norwegian church music in a most untraditional way: “For the repertoire of the new project, Simin and I have been working with an Afghan poet, translating and shaping a selection of hymns that I grew up with in Norway into Pashto,” Gustavsen explains. “This process has been challenging and really fruitful. We have gone quite far in interpreting the lyrics in a more ‘integral’ manner, reaching into a space where I feel that Sufism and Christianity actually meet, along with other contemplative traditions. The Norwegian hymns are my ‘standards’ – reaching deeper down in my musical and spiritual being than the typical jazz canon. The sound and feel of the Norwegian hymns in Pashto is truly captivating.” Simin Tander also sings, in English, verse of Persian mystic Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-73) and US proto-Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth (1905-82). As a pure play of sounds, too, the combination of Tander’s voice and Gustavsen’s piano and discreet electronics has an emotional persuasiveness of its own, outside the limits of language. The Gustavsen/Tander/Vespestad trio takes its programme of “hymns and visions” to the concert halls and clubs of Europe in the first months of 2016.

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Tord Gustavsen, Det Norske Jentekor, Anne Karin Sundal-Ask – stille grender (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/176,4kHz]

Tord Gustavsen, Det Norske Jentekor, Anne Karin Sundal-Ask – stille grender (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 57:21 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2L

The Norwegian Girls Choir and pianist Tord Gustavsen combine their talents in a programme of popular and cherished Christmas carols, leading the audience from quiet melancholy to expressive improvisations and sparkling, ecstatic moments. Anne Karin Sundal-Ask directs the performances with attention to each individual singer and to the distinctive sound of the choir as a whole. Through their warm musical presence, Gustavsen and these radiant young voices appeal to our very hearts.

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Tord Gustavsen Trio, Tord Gustavsen – Opening (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Tord Gustavsen Trio, Tord Gustavsen – Opening (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:41 minutes | 774 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

On the album Opening, Tord Gustavsen opens a new angle on his unique trio explorations with Scandinavian folk songs, gospel, choral and jazz, introducing a new voice on bass.

With a new companion on board and the recording premiering at Auditorio Stelio Molo in Lugano, the trio is inspiringly discovering new ways to interact with each other using innovative approaches to sound and technique. The group’s conversations, equal parts complexly structured improvisations and unobtrusively melodic interjections, bring a tantalizing unfamiliarity to the language the Norwegian pianist has developed over nearly two decades of collaboration with ECM.
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