ProgRock&LOL!
Check out our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/ProjectRnL

Also check out:
Eyal Amir's channel: http://www.youtube.com/EyalAmirMusic
Anakdota (Ray Livnat's group): http://www.youtube.com/anakdotagroup
2For6 (Ray Livnat's A-capella band): http://www.youtube.com/2For6aCappella

A new open collaboration page featuring artists from around the world creating new worlds in sound...

Featuring:

https://soundcloud.com/keithregenerate

https://soundcloud.com/podge-cooke-1

https://soundcloud.com/nealretke

https://soundcloud.com/jasonmcnamara

SOLVEIG SLETTAHJELL, vocal
KNUT REIERSRUD, guitar
MORTEN QVENILD, piano
ROGER ARNTZEN, bass
PÅL HAUSKEN, drums

"Connecting the unexpected" is the motto of Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic, a concert series curated and produced by ACT label boss Siggi Loch, which began in December 2012. The 'Norwegian Woods' edition of the series in March 2014 experienced an amazing evening. Loch had assembled the A-team of Norwegian jazz, and created the unexpected by combining them with a guest artist from a different musical realm:

Solveig Slettahjell was one such artist welcomed back into the fold. The ACT label released her early albums, establishing her international reputation as one of Europe's leading jazz vocalists. Here she was partnered up with In the Country, the piano trio involving her close friend Morton Qvenild, pianist, sonic explorer and also a member of Solveig Slettahjell's Slow Motion ensembles. The real surprise that evening, however, came from adding the blues guitarist Knut Reiersrud. He had been on Siggi Loch's radar for quite some time, and on this occasion was having his first ever meeting with Slettahjell and her crew. It turned out to be an ideal combination. The evening was a celebration of everything that had made the Nordic sound so attractive and successful for many decades. On the one hand there was the elegiac, bluesy side, inspired by the spirit of indigenous folk music; on the other the electronic, the rhythmically daring and the experimental.

Then followed a huge amount of careful preparation and several rehearsals in Morten Qvenild's private studio, after which all the musicians ended up in the celebrated Rainbow Studio in Oslo to give the original idea a definitive shape. All eleven tracks, with the exception of the final number, a song composed by Reiersrud, are blues and gospel classics in the broadest sense. There are three from stars of pop and soul music - Bill Withers "Grandma's Hand", Peter Gabriel's "Mercy Street" and Leonard Cohen's "Come Healing" - but beyond those the others are the kind of tunes only familiar to initiates such as Reiersrud. "We did all rummage through our record collections and chose a few old work songs and spirituals together," says Slettahjell, "but Knut is the really knowledgeable one among us."

The procession of songs on "Trail of Souls" takes in, for example, the emotional traditional song "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child," and that staple of gospel church services, "His Eye Is On The Sparrow," and the memorable "Don't Feel Noways Tired" by the King of Gospel, the Reverend James Cleveland. From older pieces by Blind Willie Johnson, James Anderson and Richard M. Jones – with the evergreen song "Trouble in Mind" - the selection comes up to date with the song "Is My Living In Vain?" by Elbernita 'Twinkie' Clark, a gospel star and two-time Grammy winner.


BOOKING:

Hihat (Norway)
www.hihat.no

Jan Sollesnes
Tel: +47 56 90 19 19
Mail: jan.sollesnes[at]hihat.no

Bjørn Bunes
e-post: bjorn[at]hihat.no


GENERAL REQUESTS:
Roger Arntzen
Cell: +47 906 404 88
Mail: roger[at]rogerarntzen.com
www.inthecountry.no/remembrance
www.inthecountry.no

Booking/Enquiries: office@affinerecords.com

It would be a little bit too easy to brand Sixtus Preiss only as a jazzman. He offers more than that. As a producer he oscilates between razorsharp drums, lush layers of synth and a clear and precise idea of a hook line.

Sixtus is a studied and qualified drummer who celebrated his debut release in 2011 on The Loud Minority 7 Inch series. In the same year he joined Affine Records – with original releases like „Samba Feelin Beein This“ and especially “Lololo” he received spins and attention all over the world. Sixtus creates Beat Music with a very own twist, reduced to their essence: loud and vibrant! Affiliated and part of “the new viennese jazz generation” he collaborates in various formations – just recently he established a virtuoso allstar-group together with Lukas König, Manu Mayr and Peter Rom from the famous “Jazzwerkstatt Wien” collective.

But Sixtus is also an accomplished tinkerer. Mostly he builds things like handmade microphones, amplifier boards or custom-made sound installations. In total: „Sixteen Million Priceless Skillz“ – there’s a lot to be discovered in the universe of Sixtus Preiss.

"mesmerized" is a music project, mostly instrumental. Music played by "mesmerized" is based on guitar riffs and solos along with keyboards and electronics.

#LEVEL5 is a new band from NYC blending instrumental rock, funk and fusion.  The band's set list includes 11 new original tunes written by #OzNoy. 

Personnel on "Sybil," "Swagger" and "Jabber Jaw" : Oz Noy - guitar, #WillLee - bass,  #AdamKlipple - keys and #MarkFeldman - drums 

"The Sybil EP" is coming soon.

markus babler and georg falb met many years ago, started to play with each other, havent't stopped ever since, and most probably never will. they are the guitarist respectively the drummer they had been waiting to meet for a long time. they were obviously made to become a duo, which of course doesn't mean they're not playing with other line-ups. improvisation is both their love, which makes for a thorough threesome.

The Katasonic Duo is following