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  Updated 10/17/2011  
  Thanks to our very nice audience in Sandnes and Drammen recently. Our Karin Boye-project is moving on with more concerts and recording in spring 2012.

We will soon publish some live recordings from the last concert, which you will find here on www.sevag.com		  
         
         
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LIBERTY BY ANETTE ASKVIK IS RELEASED
03/03/2011  
The liberty to be ones complete self.

A few years ago Anette Askvik was so sensitive to sound that she walked through the city wearing ear plugs. Fortunately the sounds inside of her were impossible to drown out. They have now been expressed through her first album; “Liberty”.

Anette is a singer, musician and songwriter from Norway. Her songwriting reflects a strong involvement and passion for the women’s rights movement. Measures for combating violence and the oppression of women in all cultures has always been one of her main concerns. In various ways her songs revolve around the idea of liberty and what it means to have the liberty to be ones complete self. Anette says that the easiest way for her to feel like a complete person is by thinking with her heart. Her creativity, her generosity, it all originates from her heart.

Musically she is attracted to what´s simple, appealing and immediate. But music is to her much more than what´s confined to a particular form: For Anette, music is everywhere, in the trees, in the streets, on the tram and in the relationships between people.

Now, collaborating with the producer Øystein Sevåg and a team of brilliant musicians, she has created an album where the spontaneous, the simple and almost naive is combined with sophisticated band-arrangements and cascades of sound. The music on “Liberty” is inspired by multitudes of styles like pop, jazz, electronica, experimental, folk, rock and classical music. Exploring music experimentally is something Anette has had great opportunity to do during three years of studies in Australia. For that reason it has been extremely important for her to involve artists who know no musical borders when creating her debut album.

The musicians that have contributed to the process are pianist Øystein Sevåg, Petter Wettre on saxophone, Audun Erlien on bass and guitar, and drummer Rune Arnesen. In addition Anette has worked with the string quartet Katharsis, the cellist Elisa Herbig, Julie Falkevik Tungvåg and several others.

Anettes song “Liberty” was chosen to be part of the Midem compilation-CD, along with groups like Kaizers Orchestra, Datarock and Jim Stärk. The CD will represent Norwegian musicians abroad, and it was distributed during the Midem-festival in Cannes, France in January 2011.

Last year Anette, with a small band, travelled to New York and Germany with her music		  
“Sevåg is back as a centerpiece in the improvisational music-scene”
12/01/2010  
Øystein Sevåg receives great reviews for “The Red Ablum”.

“Is it possible to unite 70’s jazz-rock, baroque violin a’ la Bach and New Age-music?
The answer is yes, with Øystein Sevåg’s Global House Band. And they’re happy to mix in a bit of Australian didgeridoo as well. The result; The Red Album, is truly remarkable. It is an album with enormous commercial potential, and at the same time an album of completely honest musical expression. Free of compromise, it is conventional and groundbreaking at theIs it possible to unite 70’s jazz-rock, baroque violin a’ la Bach and New Age-music?
The answer is yes, with Øystein Sevåg’s Global House Band. And they’re happy to mix in a bit of Australian didgeridoo as well.
The result; The Red Album, is truly remarkable. It is an album with enormous commercial potential, and at the same time an album of completely honest musical expression. Free of compromise, it is conventional and groundbreaking at the same time.
Sevåg is back as a centerpiece in the improvisational music-scene. 		 
Oystein Sevag - The Red Album. Press release
04/26/2010  
The Red Album
Øystein Sevåg’s musical melting-pot is brought to the boil on the new, band-based recording The Red Album.
“This album is a vital continuation of everything I have done up to this moment,” says Sevåg, “but it is also an opportunity for me to release my obsession with 70s fusion from the closet. This wonderful band has made it possible for me to connect the spiritual elements of my work, with strong, rhythmical music. It is a meeting of old and new, heaven and earth, which is something I have always tried to communicate through my music.”

The band’s newest release, The Red Album, was recorded over the course of a few, intense days last winter, which manifests itself in the spontaneous energy that permeates the album.
This is the purest band-recording that Sevåg has ever done. The album immerses itself deeply in the heritage of jazz and classical music, while building on Sevåg’s sophisticated use of an ambient sound-universe. It is this blend that has given him recognition across the world.

The music comes alive in the space created between Sevåg’s precisely defined compositions, and the open improvisations of the musicians. The dynamic ensemble is made up of Petter Wettre ( saxophone ), Andreas Bye ( drums ), Ole Marius Melhuus ( bass and cello ) and Zotora Nygård ( didgeridoo ) as well as Øystein Sevåg himself, composer and pianist. New to the group is the 22 year old Swedish violin-virtuoso Sara Övinge.
  
Efficient recording session with Anette Askvik
09/10/2009  
Singer / songwriter Anette Askvik was at Musikkloftet Recording studio in Oslo from august 31st to sept 4th. In collaboration with producer and pianist Øystein Sevåg, bassplayer Audun Erlien and drummer Rune Arnesen. A very creative and efficient week resulted in 10 songs recorded. Askvik and Sevåg will continue the work with contributions from other musicians and post production during the fall.