Math-pop powerhouse with members who are defining the Oslo pop underground through their participation in various projects. Their much-lauded debut album “Superstar” was released on Jansen Records this year, and now they’ve returned with “Emo Shred”, a demo recording showcasing the fragile and intimate state of their recording process.
Matata - Marcus Ojiambo, Ken Kimathi, Richie Mathu, Freddy Milenye(FBI) and Festus Kwenda (Fezzoh) - has consistently been dropping hits with incredible screenplay exhibited in equally excellent music videos .
The group does their own mixing and mastering / production works closely with Kenyan Producer Pink Ozola who has worked on Bad Manners (Tuko Sherehe na Haitaki Hasira …) beat , a sensation on TikTok, The videos are directed by frequent collaborators David Vu and Reuben Anda. With plenty of versatility the group which raps in Sheng and a mix of Kikuyu have set shows on fire for their dancing routines normally choreographed by Freddy Milenye from International Dance Group FBI.
Although Christophe Boulmer is well entrenched in the underground music scene, the rumour is really starting to go around about a French-Norwegian DJ with a distinctive and hip taste, who creates an atmosphere of his own on the floor. For this mix he wants to showcase his signature approach to genre-blending, while letting every song shine in its own right. The mix clearly starts during daytime, and ends at night. From Pepe Bradock to Raina Rai, this selection is but a hint of the many influences to Christophe Boulmer’s style.
Norwegian violinist and composer Inger Hannisdal (b. 1991 in Oslo) works at the intersection of folk, improvised and contemporary music. She combines folk music timbres with contemporary impulses, shifting between composed and improvised structures. Focusing on microtonality, she draws on modes from both Norwegian and Middle Eastern traditions, crafting a personal musical language from their shared characteristics: quarter tones and uneven time.
Exposed to contemporary classical from a young age and with an early education in both classical and jazz violin, she completed a bachelor in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean studies at Sciences Po Paris (2012-2015) and then studied Arabic music and violin at Université Antonine in Lebanon (2016-2019). Inger also performs traditional Middle Eastern music in a number of ensembles - including popular Syrian folk music group Assa’aleek - spanning from tarab and folk to classical Arabic and Persian music.
Noise Diva is an Amsterdam-based producer and DJ, Garage Noord resident, and co-founder of KLAB and SALWA foundation. Her music bridges a variety of genres, from Moroccan trap to Egyptian R&B, French drill, dancehall, and UK garage, weaving together stories that transcend the dancefloor, while ensuring that dancers stay hot on their toes. The ecstatic flow that she creates in her sets is always unexpected, and yet guaranteed to create intimate connections around the DJ booth.
Photo: Cisser Mæhl
Maria Dybbroe (1993) is a very active improviser, composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist, in the experimental realm of the Nordic jazz scene, who has released 9 albums in her own name, and contributed to more than 20 albums of others. She is the leading force of the double-trio Caktus which gave her the nomination as ‘Composer of the Year’ at the Danish Critic’s Prize ‘Steppeulven’ in 2020, as well as a nomination for 'Album of the year' at Danish Music Awards Jazz. In 2021 she also won the title ‘New Name of the Year’ at Danish Music Awards Jazz with the band Maraton, and earlier she has received several prices and nominations for her political engagement and work for a blossoming and diverse jazz-scene in Aarhus and Copenhagen with the organisations Sun Ship and The Community.
Maria Dybbroe brings a rhythmic and visceral avant-jazz mix to round off our OJKOS x SVS residency. Featuring music by Caktus, Excelsior, Dynastiet, and many more.
Photo: Marthe Vannebo
Runnershigh is Ingvild Langgård and Øyvind Røsrud, making overtones, feedback, trancy, hypnotic, mossy, folk, industrial, strings, ambient voices for film. They released their self titled debut album in April 2022, featuring Gregor Riddell and Sara Övinge on strings.
Photo: Thor Hauknes
For almost a decade Bjørn Kåre Odde has been one of the most active fiddle players in Norway. With strong roots in the traditional music from Gudbrandsdalen and working as a composer and arranger, Odde has reached out to audiences beyond folk music both at home and abroad. He has performed with several choirs and orchestras in Europe, amongst them The Norwegian Radio Orchestra and SWR Vokalensemble (Germany).
Following over 20 releases in various formations over the years, in October 2021 Odde released his debut solo album “Folk Chamber”. This is, as the title suggests, chamber music, and the repertoire consists of his own tunes arranged for strings.
Sara Övinge (violin) || Gregor Riddell (cello)
Tlön is a musical duo amalgamating acoustic strings, spoken word and rich electronic textures.
They take their name from the illusory worlds in Jorge Luis Gorbes’ Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius which has directly inspired the imaginary landscapes they strive for in their music.
“Adam Teixeira alternates with perfect intuition between pushing forward and supportively underpinning at the drums.” ~ Ian Ballamy
“Teixeira providing understated yet propulsive percussion, is crucial to the tune's atmosphere” ~ All About Jazz
Born in Toronto, Adam Teixeira’s musical background began at an early age. Pursuing the drum set and various hand percussions Adam developed a strong foundation in the rhythmic vocabularies of jazz, rock, world rhythms and orchestral percussion while playing in many school ensembles and bands.
The experience of rehearsing and performing regularly fuelled his passion for the art form and guided his musical development. Adam graduated in Jazz Performance at Humber College in 2007 and began to perform regularly in the Toronto music scene and abroad. Participating in the International Jazz Workshop at The Banff Centre for the Arts where he studied and performed with renowned musicians from around the world and later fulfilled a self-directed music residency where he focused on expanding his artistic concepts and original compositions. Adam has been awarded several Professional Development Grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts to fulfill advanced study of world rhythms in Paris, France with Brice Wassy and Sonny Troupé. These experiences continue to enriched his voice as a musician and play a significant role in propelling his professional career. Adam has performed with the likes of Greg Osby, Tony Malaby, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Vitor Pereira, Ingrid Jensen, Monika Lidke, Monsoon, Julian Costello, Alex Stuart, Jangeun Bae, Pat Labarbera and more. Currently based in London, UK Adam performs regularly in the international music scene.
Oslo World is one of Europe’s leading venue festivals, presenting a global outlook on today’s music scene, with a special focus on music from Africa, Latin-America, Asia and the Middle East. In 2021, the festival will run from November 2 - November 7, with 65 concerts, featuring artists from more than 30 countries, at 20 big and small venues, all over Oslo. The task of the festival has remained unchanged since 1994: To bring the world to Oslo and Oslo to the world.
Mitmitta creates one-of-a-kind sets ranging from sophisticated jazz to thumping sounds of mystical and up-tempo music from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti, Tanzania & Somalia.
Deeply hypnotized by East African sounds from vinyl and audiotapes, Vemund Brune Hareide - Mitmitta or ‘Kidus’ in Ethiopia is originally from Norway but has been based in Ethiopia for the last 11 years. He has run a cassette shop in Addis Abeba, known as Mitmitta Muzika, while also creating hundreds of parties in the capital and around Europe and the USA. He has re-issued music from the region under the label Mitmitta Muzika along with archiving his extensive cassette collection.
He travels with a selection of records and audiotapes largely unknown to the world to accommodate various settings for listening and dancing.
Photo: Jan Tore Eriksen
Bendik Baksaas loves mechanical repetition and cherishes the human rhythm. His productions range from rough techno to open hearted ambient. Drum machines, synthesizers and field recordings are playfully processed in the digital realm to a blend that hits like a long and powerful exhalation after an intensely engaging moment.
A series of acclaimed releases include the double album Duets that received Natt&Dags award for album of the year 2018. His duo with Fredrik Høyer is a pillar in his musical practice, pioneering the field of performative poetry in interplay with minimal club music and ambient. Their mastodon project Til alt ute was released in 2019, comprising 26 songs, redefining rap-poetry as a musical element in dancefloor-friendly electronic music.
(Photograph by Martin Høyer)
Katrine Grarup Elbo is a violinist and composer based between Berlin and Copenhagen. Her work combines improvisation, composition, performance, and installation. In addition to her own creative practice, she enjoys playing both chamber music and symphony orchestra.
She is a founder and core member of Danish sound collective We like We (f. 2012), Berlin based string ensemble TOECHTER, the neo classical duo Søndag Søndag, and performance duo La Mia Bella Sorella with soloist with the Royal Danish Ballet, Astrid Grarup Elbo.
Katrine trained as a classical violinist at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and gave her solo debut at Castello del Valentino in Turin, Italy in 2018. Her solo debut Fold Unfold was recorded in the legendary Funkhaus in Berlin and released April 2021 by the acknowledged German label Sonic Pieces.
Traditional and contemporary sounds rub shoulders in the music of this internationally renowned Scottish/Finnish duo based in Norway, whose three albums have all been awarded Top Of The World status from Songlines.
“absolute masters of their instruments…magnificent” 5/5,
(Fiona Talkington/Songlines)
Telepathic interplay, playful improvisation and timbral explorations are a hallmark of their music, which dances across the whole spectrum of emotions from radiant joy to quiet despair, engaging both the body and the mind of the listener.
A tradition-bearer of the old Highland fiddle style, Sarah-Jane Summers also has a master’s degree in Norwegian folk music & improvisation from The Norwegian Academy of Music. She is a critically acclaimed soloist and composer, has released two albums of experimental music for solo violin, and has played with Susanna Wallumrød, Highasakite, Quatuor Bozzini and GRIT Orchestra.
Juhani Silvola is a sought-after guitarist, composer of electro-acoustic contemporary music and record producer. He plays with, amongst others, Frode Haltli’s Avant Folk, and has released three solo albums.
Photo: Jenny Berger Myhre
Jonas Hagman is a man of many trades. Growing up in Moss - now based in Oslo - he started out as a breakdancer and soon developed a passion for both record collecting and DJing. This has lead to his forming of Ille Bra Records and Kokk N Roll. He’s also a professional chef!
Jenny Berger Myhre is a multidisciplinary artist from Norway. Having worked with both sound and image since 2013, she released her first album Lint in 2017 consisting of field recordings, fragments of melodies, bird songs, lo-fi electronics and computer generated sequences. Since then she has worked extensively making music videos, music for public spaces such as swimming pools and ice skating rinks, as well as live performance and video for Jenny Hval’s The Practice of Love. Jenny’s approach to music making is versatile and curious, with an apparent love for the unpolished, the silly and the beautiful.
Oda Østenstad Fjell is a dancer and actor, a performer focusing on interdisciplinary collaborations and pieces for the stage. Oda graduated from Oslo national academy of the arts with a bachelor in contemporary dance in 2017, and has since toured with her own work as well as working with theatres and companies across Norway. Oda often collaborates with musicians, finding new ways for music, dance and text to merge. She is also a writer, producing text for choreography and independent publishing.
Oda has a passion for music, and the way dance originated from the need to meet the music and musicians in social settings. She has a love for jazz, and, consequently, hip hop. The groove and movement in the words are a big part of her practice as a performer. Therefore, Oda has made a mix illustrating a powerful tool in the birth of hip hop - samples. As Grandmaster Flash emerged in the late 70s, his DJ technique consisted of cutting, scratching and mixing. He gave new life to 70s disco, and in this mix we will hear different ways of using samples.
Photo: Skjalg Bøhmer Vold
Viktor Orri Árnason is an Icelandic composer. He studied viola at the Iceland University of the Arts (Listaháskóli Íslands) and composition at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. His particular focus on colliding the worlds of classical composition and studio artistry has – along with his unique approach to the viola and violin – made him a sought-after collaborator for established musicians of many genres.
Viktor is a member of the award-winning band Hjaltalín, and has played the strings, conducted and created arrangements for Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Hauschka and Ólafur Arnalds among many others. His contributions can be heard on multiple movies including the BAFTA award-winning series Broadchurch and multi-awards-winner movie Joker. His critically acclaimed debut collaborative album VAST, created with Yair Elazar Glotman (a.k.a. KETEV) and released by Bedroom Community, captures one evening of unconventional violin, viola, and double bass improvisations.
Photo: Maximilian Koenig
Sommarljom is a music festival based in Ørsta and 2020 marks the ninth edition! This year it will take place outdoors at the Ytre-Hovden farm over three nights from 5-7 August. There will be a concert stage and the audience has plenty of space to frolic on the slopes, which will function as a natural amphitheater. We are proud to offer an assortment of music in different genres, ranging from jazz, pop, classical, rock to folk music and performance art!
