Karl Seglem & Christoph Stiefel Group - New album 2018

Christoph Stiefel, piano, prepared piano
Karl Seglem, tsax, goat-horns, antilope-horn, voice
Jullie Hjetland Jensen, voice
Trygve Waldemar Fiske, bass
Kåre Opheim, drums, percussion

The two leaders and profiled musicians in their respective native countries Norway and
Switzerland, Karl Seglem and Christoph Stiefel, met at JazzAhead in Bremen some years ago.
They decided to collaborate and made their first concerts together with this new quintet at Moldefestivalen in Norway in 2013 & 2014. Autumn 2013 they met for a three-day recording session in Osnabrück in Germany and recorded music, that will be released internationally in Jan 2015 by Challenge Records (NL).
A strong and original, playful and powerful new international quintet is established. The material they play is a mix of composed tunes from both leaders, and free-formed improvisational soundscapes with a big variety in dynamics, moods and character. Jazz-music with a highly original and unique sound and identity, because of the five individuals listening and playing together making music with a common new language.

Christoph Stiefel is one of Switzerlands most prominent musicians with a long-lasting career. He has been touring mainly with his Inner Language Trio for the last years, and his albums and music have got great reviews all over Europe. 
Karl Seglem has established himself as one of Norways foremost tenorsaxophonist with a long career as a record-producer and touring musician with his different jazz-bands. 
Vocalist Jullie H. Jensen is based in Copenhagen. She has her background from Scandinavian folk-music and is involved in many projects
on the Danish music scene. The band Nordens Rose is her main project. Bass-player Trygve Waldemar Fiske known from Hanna Paulsberg Concept and other groups. 
Drummer Kåre Opheim is based in the western part of Norway (Voss)
and is playing in the rock/pop/folk band RealOnes. He´s also been working with Karl Seglem in his world-jazz quintet for some years beside of freelance work.

www.karlseglem.no  
www.christophstiefel.ch

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