Live recording of Ingólfsson's piece "Radioflakes", extract from a full performance of his larger piece "Composition" for saxophone, accordion and double bass.

| RADIOFLAKES | 2004 for accordion 8'
I can't help seeing the accordion as a forefather of the portable radio, the so-called ghettoblaster”.  This means that for me it impersonates a struggle between its characteristic rhythmical swing, more aggressive sound-energy and carefree radio-scanning. Writing this piece was as fascinating a trip as sitting in front of the radio as a child, playing with the scanning knob. Radioflakes was written for Frode Haltli upon commission from Radio France. 
http://www.atli-ingolfsson.com/

Atli Ingólfsson: Radioflakes

Garth Knox / Frode Haltli 
Live in Dundalk March 3rd 2016, recorded by David Stalling

"Viola Spaces" is a series of viola pieces written and performed by Garth Knox. Each piece explores one special string technique. This is "Viola Spaces no. 3" and it's called "One finger" because its all about sliding around using mostly just one finger (but not always the same one)

Garth Knox: One Finger (from Viola Spaces)

Garth Knox / Frode Haltli performing Gerard Pesson's "Peigner Le Vif" (2007) for viola and accordion. Live performance Dundalk March 2016 recorded by David Stalling

Gerard Pesson: Peigner Le Vif

Live recording from Dundalk, Ireland, March 3rd 2016. Vegar Vårdal (fiddle) and Frode Haltli (accordion) perform their own arrangement of a 'visetone' (song) after Gustav Kaaterud, and the 'Halling etter Halteguten', both tunes from Solør/Finnskogen, Norway.

The concert was organised by Louth Contemporary Music Society

Recorded by David Stalling

Visetone og Halling etter Halteguten

A live version of music by Frode Haltli from the film Nordland (2014) directed by Ingo J. Biermann. 

Frode Haltli (accordion)
Vegar Vårdal (violin, Hardanger violin)
Garth Knox (viola)
Amund Sjølie Sveen (percussion) 

Recorded by David Stalling at the concert 'Blissful Pentecost' in Dundalk, Ireland, March 3rd 2016, at a concert event which marked 10 years of Louth Contemporary Music Society concerts.

Nordland Suite

Garth Knox / Frode Haltli / Amund Sjølie Sveen
Live in Dundalk March 3rd 2016, recorded by David Stalling

... the game here is not to use the bow, so it's called "9 fingers" because that's what you use to play it...

Garth Knox: Nine Fingers (from Viola Spaces)

Garth Knox / Frode Haltli / Amund Sjølie Sveen
Live in Dundalk March 3 2016, recorded by David Stalling

"Viola Spaces" is a series of eight viola pieces written and performed by Garth Knox. Each piece explores one special string technique. This is no. 8 and it explores what you can do by moving the bow in the dimensions you don't usually use - which is why it's called "Up, down, sideways, round". The "circular" bowing especially is fun to do!
Sheet music available from Schott Music, Cd available from Mode Records.
more info: http://garthknox.org/spaces.html

Garth Knox: Up Down Sideways Round (from Viola Spaces)

First performance of Frode Haltli's 'Blissful Pentecost', live in Dundalk, Ireland March 3rd 2016. Concert The very 40 seconds of the piece is missing on this recording... 

Frode Haltli - accordion
Vegar Vårdal - violin, Hardanger violin
Garth Knox - viola
Amund Sjølie Sveen - percussion

Recorded by David Stalling

The concert event marked 10 years of Louth Contemporary Music Society concerts. Concert supported by Forberg Schneider Stiftung and Music Norway. Louth Contemporary Music Society is financially supported by The Arts Council and Create Louth.

Program comment ‘Blissful Pentecost’:

In Solør, the area where I grew up, a terrible tragedy took place on Pentecost 1822. Between 113 and 117 churchgoers – mainly women and children – were killed when the Grue Church caught fire during the service. The event is, strangely enough, not regarded as an essential part of Norwegian church history. Peter Wessel Zapffe brings this up in his novel ‘Blissful Pentecost – Four Dialogues with Jørgen’, where the tragic event is thoroughly described through historical sources, and also serves as the starting point for a philosophical discussion around the Problem of Evil.

A more violent event took place in St. Peter’s Church in Drogheda, Ireland, in 1649. Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentary forces burned the steeple of the church where about 100 people had taken refuge. Cromwell is of course a major, yet controversial figure in Irish and British history. And this incident in Drogheda still has resonance to the present time.

Eamonn Quinn in the Louth Contemporary Music Society made me aware of the connection between these two tragic events when he heard Vegar Vårdal and me perform the traditional ‘pols dance’ that, according to the local tradition, the devil himself played on his fiddle up in the steeple of the Grue Church as it burnt down. It is a jolly, almost ironic dance tune in a Major key. Other popular expressions at the time dealt with the tragedy, like the songs that described the fire, one of them with one verse for each of the victims!

The composition it self is not meant to be descriptive in any way, but the two church fires, and how these events have been used in traditional/popular culture, in philosophy and politics, has followed and inspired me through the compositional process. I dedicate this piece to the innocent people killed in Drogheda in 1649 and in Grue in 1822.

The piece is written upon commission by the Louth Contemporary Music Society/Eamonn Quinn with support from Norsk komponistfond.

Frode Haltli, Svartskog 2014

Blissful Pentecost // Lyksalig Pinsefest

Frode Haltli Avant Folk: "Quarantine Quilt" 
Buy: http://frodehaltli.bandcamp.com/track/quarantine-quilt

Frode Haltli – accordion
Erlend Apneseth – Hardanger fiddle
Hans P. Kjorstad – violin
Rolf-Erik Nystrøm – saxophone
Hildegunn Øiseth – trumpet
Ståle Storløkken – organ and synthesizer
Juhani Silvola – guitar
Oddrun Lilja Jonsdottir – guitar
Fredrik Luhr Dietrichson – double bass
Siv Øyunn Kjenstad – vocals
Per Oddvar Johansen - drums

A new single release from Frode Haltli's Avant Folk ensemble on Wednesday 8th of April 2020 10pm.  

Frode Haltli Avant Folk: Quarantine Quilt (Frode Haltli/arr. Haltli/Apneseth/Kjorstad/Nystrøm/Øiseth/Storløkken/Silvola/Jonsdottir/Kjenstad/Johansen)

Recorded in various home studios March 27 to April 6 2020
Mixed by Juhani Silvola, mastered by Maja S.K. Ratkje
Produced by Frode Haltli and Juhani Silvola
Released by Hubro on Bandcamp April 8 2020, and as music video on social media.

Quarantine Quilt

Frode Haltli 'Avant Folk' feat. Helga Myhr: 'St. Morten'


On November 29th 2020 Frode Haltli ‘Avant Folk’ would have performed at the main stage of the Norwegian Opera with Helga Myhr as a guest in the band. When the concert was cancelled on short notice due to corona regulations, the musicians decided to record a Christmas song as to soften the blow!

Singer and Hardanger fiddle player Helga Myhr brought a little known song from her home village: ‘St. Morten’, a traditional Norwegian version of ‘The Twelve days of Christmas’.  An impressive cumulative song, where gifts beyond what you could possibly expect is given through 12 verses.

Frode Haltli had ideas for an arrangement of the song which also incorporated the Irish traditional 'The Lochaber Badger' and the Swedish polska 'Back-Marits vallåt'. The recording took place in the beautiful Oppegård Church in Svartskog, Frode Haltli’s home place on the countryside just outside of Oslo.

‘St. Morten’ is released December 11th 2020 as a music video on social media, and as a single release by Hubro, available on all digital platforms.

Frode Haltli will release 'Avant Folk II’ on Hubro in March 2021, a full-length album of new original music for this all-star ensemble.

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Frode Haltli 'Avant Folk’ feat. Helga Myhr: 
‘St. Morten’ (trad., arr Frode Haltli/Myhr/Kjorstad/Nystrøm/Øiseth/Storløkken/Jonsdottir/Silvola/Dietrichson)

Helga Myhr, vocals and Hardanger fiddle
Frode Haltli, accordion
Hans P. Kjorstad, fiddle
Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, saxofon
Hildegunn Øiseth, goat horn
Ståle Storløkken, organ
Oddrun Lilja Jonsdottir, acoustic guitar
Juhani Silvola, acoustic guitar
Fredrik Luhr Dietrichson, double bass

Recorded by Trond Kjelsås in Oppegård Church, Svartskog November 24, 2020
Mixed og mastered by Maja S.K. Ratkje P
roduced by Frode Haltli
Video: Trond Kjelsås

Video: https://youtu.be/_dZ3PYh07cc

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