Ossicles Karl Seglem

• 1 Gammal rørsle (Old Movement) 07:05
• 2 Mårblå (More Blue) 07:19
• 3 Rørsletre (Moving3) 05:51
• 4 Apal (Apple3) 06:15
• 5 Sognabad 04:22
• 6 Din folketone 02:31
• 7 The Last Norwegian Troll (springar) 05:06
• 8 Ørken (Desert) 04:26
• 9 Ossicles 03:33
• 10 Laust aus (Loose Loose) 04:23
• 11 The Ornes Song 04:32
• Total Runtime 55:23

Info for Ossicles

Ossicles is Karl Seglem's 27th album. For a musician who makes the stage his home, what better way to record than to encircle himself, his band and a small audience in the wood-paneled rooms of the Herrenhaus-Hotel in the remote town of Salderatzen: the perfect environment to produce a haunting blend of jazz, Nordic folk and rock - all dripping with the textures and deliberate ornamentation of African, middle eastern and reggae influence.

Karl Seglem: Tenor Saxophone, Goat Horns, Antilope Horn, Vocals
Håkon Høgemo: Hardanger Fiddle
Olav Torget: Electric Guitars, Konting (West African Ngoni), Mbira
Gjermund Silset: Bass
Erland Dahlen: Drums, Percussion
Kenneth Ekornes: Drums, Percussion
Harald Skullerud: Drums, Percussion

Karl Seglem
is described as one of the most exciting contemporary tenor saxophonists and composers in Norway. He has consistently extended musical frontiers with his original perspectives and daring improvisational style. He combines Norway's rich folk music traditions, both the vocal traditions and specially the Hardanger fiddle music, with his own mode of expression. Seglem creates modern soundscapes, a mix between jazz, folk, world, where improvisation and composition are given equal weight.

His saxophone tone blazes a fresh trail through his innovative use of breath, resonance and syncopation. Seglem also plays the Norwegian goat horns. His many CD recordings with different ensembles such as UTLA, SOGN-A-SONG and ISGLEM ranges across the entire spectrum from rooted folk to free form, and is inspired by deep Norwegian roots, via world beats to the poetic and dramatic Nordic landscape.He has composed and performed several works/pieces and has produced a number of CDs for mainly Norwegian, but also some Swedish artists.

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