from:
A Thousand Ancestors
by Michelle Arcila & Eivind Opsvik
Loyal Label (LL017)

A Thousand Ancestors is the culmination of a long-standing collaboration between photographer Michelle Arcila and musician Eivind Opsvik which synthesize the strong influence of visual imagery on music, and vice versa. Hailing from Costa Rica and Norway, two different countries with distinct cultural traditions and folklore, A Thousand Ancestors is an exploration of family history and the continuing influence of ancestral narratives on the present generation. The project is a limited edition box set (numbered edition of 500) designed by Espen Friberg containing a ten-track vinyl LP (plus a CD and download card), ten photographic prints, each of which correspond to a track on the record, and a poster. It is released by the Brooklyn based record label; Loyal Label.

www.loyallabel.com
www.eivindopsvik.com
www.michellearcila.net


Eivind Opsvik/Michelle Arcila: Arise (from 'A Thousand Ancestors')

Winter's Hard

Taken from:
Eliot Cardinaux - American Thicket
LLCD019
Release Date: July 8th 2016

Eliot Cardinaux – voice/piano
Mat Maneri – viola
Thomas Morgan – bass
Flin van Hemmen – drums/percussion

American Thicket derives its title from the subtly interwoven brambles of the culture which teased it out under Cardinaux’s watchful gaze. Influenced by poets and writers across the last century (James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk; Yusef Komunyakaa, Thieves of Paradise; Thomas Tranströmer, The Great Enigma, Mahmoud Darwish, The Stranger’s Bed), Cardinaux has created a steadily unfolding work of poetic instants that sway with an overarching sense of revelation carried through each passing “act” or “scene” of the album of a whole, much like the drama of a stage play.


Eliot Cardinaux: Angel

Track taken from:
Eivind Opsvik - Overseas V
LLCD020 LLVL020

Release Date: March 17th, 2017

All music written and produced by Eivind Opsvik

Brandon Seabrook - electric guitar
Tony Malaby - tenor saxophone
Kenny Wollesen – drums and percussion, rhythm ace drum machine, hand claps
Jacob Sacks – piano, rmi rock-si-chord organ
Eivind Opsvik – double bass, analog bass synthesizer, oberheim drum machine, hand claps

Recorded by Tom Schick at Sear Sound, Studio A, in New York City on
June 20th 2016
Assistant engineers: Owen Mulholland and Grant Valentine
Additional recording by Eivind Opsvik at Greenwood Underground

Mixed by Eivind Opsvik at Greenwood Underground in Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Brad Blackwood at Euphonic Masters in Memphis, TN

Cover photography by Michelle Arcila
Cover design by Espen Friberg

Eivind Opsvik: Cozy Little Nightmare

taken from "Hide Ye Idols" LLCD021/LLVL021
Release date: October 27th 2017

Loren Stillman - alto saxophone
Brandon Seabrook - guitar
Eivind Opsvik - bass
Vinnie Sperrazza - drums

All compositions by Vinnie Sperrazza, Spanomusic (ASCAP)

Produced by Geoff Kraly
Recorded at The Bunker, Brooklyn NY, November 2015
Mixed by Eivind Opsvik at Greenwood Underground
Mastered by Nate Wood 
Cover Design by Espen Friberg

Dedicated with Special Thanks to Vincent Francis, Vincent Francis, Paul Joseph, and Gloria. 

©℗ 2017 Loyal Label 
All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized copying, reproduction, public performance and broadcasting prohibited.
LLVL021 
www.loyallabel.com 
vinniesperrazza.org

Hide Ye Idols

Vinnie Sperrazza Apocryphal: Bulwer Lytton

taken from "Landline" LLCD022
Release date: November 2019

Chet Doxas - tenor saxophone
Jacob Sacks - piano
Zach Lober - bass
Vinnie Sperrazza- drums

Landline: Flim Flam

taken from "Overseas Live 2002-2012" LLDL023 
Release date: June 2020
Eivind Opsvik – upright bass and compositions
Tony Malaby – tenor saxophone
Jacob Sacks – fender rhodes 
Kenny Wollesen – drums, percussion
Craig Taborn – farfisa organ

Overseas Live 2002-2012

Eivind Opsvik: Italian Movie Theme (live At The 55 Bar, 2005)

Helge Lien Piano and Percussion, Knut Aalefjær Percussion, Rob Waring Percussion, Peter Opsvik Woodwinds, Eivind Opsvik Bass and Percussion, Guest: Bjørnar Andresen Bass

Recorded in Oslo in February 1998 and January 1999. 
Concept: Peter Opsvik. Sound Engineer: Eivind Opsvik
Produced by Eivind Opsvik and Peter Opsvik. Executive producer: Karl Seglem
All music composed by the musicians.

9 To bassar av gran og lønn to lydbilde av svartor og ask

10 Puls

11 Osp

12 Selje

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Eivind Opsvik/Michelle Arcila: Arise (from 'A Thousand Ancestors')

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