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ARVE HENRIKSEN & ELLING VANBERGThe making of this record has been a very special experience for me. The entire idea and inspiration originated long ago. I met Elling Vanberg only once, in 1983. This meeting between the local poet from Olden and me, a 15-year-old pupil listening to him read his poems aloud at Stryn Lower Secondary School, had a tremendous influence on me. In fact, even more than I realized at the time. So in 1995, two years after Elling died, when I was commissioned to compose music for Balejazz Festival in Balestrand, my immediate reaction was to use his texts. The recollection of the sound of his voice reading his own poems inspired me to do some research, and I discovered recordings of Ellivan reading some of his own poems in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) archives in Førde and received permission to use them. After I had presented this commission, which I called Farande bilete (Moving Pictures), at two concerts, I had originally intended to record it with NORCD. This idea never materialized. The challenge of combining recited texts and music frightened me, and I abandoned the idea. I continued to use some of the spoken text sound files at various concerts with improvised music with the band Food and in my collaboration with Terje Isungset and Karl Seglem. |
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Warm soundscapes:poetry from Elling Vanberg (picture) and Arve Henriksen |
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Trumpeter Arve Henriksen says that the making of his new album with poet Elling Vanberg (1937-1993) was a very special experience for him. The entire idea and inspiration originated long ago, and he had originally intended to record it many years ago. Those ideas never materialized, but after working on the album Strjon, which he released with Rune Grammofon in 2007, he felt closer connected to his roots, childhood and early sources of inspiration. He once again recalled Elling Vanberg´s spoken words, and started to rework the material. Two years later NORCD is proud to share this very special album from master musician Arve Henriksen with old and new listeners. Street date June 22.2009. |
NORCD RELEASES WITH ARVE HENRIKSEN & ELLING VANBERG
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| ELLIVAN (2009) |
ARVE HENRIKSEN & ELLING VANBERG ALSO PARTICIPATES ON THE FOLLOWING NORCD RELEASES
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| VALSE MYSTERIOSO (2004) |
DAA (2000) |
REISE (1997) |
PROSA (1996) |
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| VESLEFREKK (1994) |
