28.07.2010
Gamalost and Goat Horn
Read about a nice summer-trip along the Sognefjord, Solvorn, Urnes, Leikanger, Balestrand and to Førdefestivalen 2010.
Spinner
07.07.2010
OSSICLES
The new album is soon ready! 11 compositions. Release date soon to come. It wil be out on Ozella Music and NORCD - hopefully in august 2010.
22.04.2010
A new world-jazz album in progress
Due to a data crash :-( - the final mixing days of the album will be moved to early May. Just some small adjustment left on some of the eleven new tunes that will be included on the album. The plan is to release it in Scandinavia in august - and a bit later in the rest of the world. The album will be licensed to Ozella Music (Germany)
09.03.2010
09.03.2010
Karl Seglem is working in the studio this week. He hopes to finish his new album during spring. New compositions, new sounds made together with his quintet and no less then 3 different drummers/percussionists: Ekornes, Skullerud and Dahlen.
Seglem also use three different goat horns and hope to blow the antilope horn too! Some of the songs are recorded during his Germany tour in 2008 - and some are brand new.
24.02.2010
TYA 2
A GREAT CONCERT WITH A GREAT BAND. A celebration of Seglems home county - and a new version of the work TYA - composed together with Reidar Skår in 1994!
TYA 2 review (NO)
11.01.2010
TOUR with duo Isglem
traveling in Buskerud county to do concerts with Terje Isungset in schools: Jan,11 to Jan 20. 2010
04.10.2009
NEW BOOKING
We are happy to announce that JTC and Chris Jaeker will do the booking of Karl Seglem - both quintet and quartet (w.Eple Trio)
BOOKING-INFORMATION: Chris Jaeker
chris@jtc.de
www.jtc.de
2010 Periodes
April 6. to April 15. w. Eple Trio
May 24. to May 30 w. Eple Trio
October 1. to October 10. w. Eple Trio
November 8. to november 21. with quintet
www.jtc.de
26.09.2009
Special offer: Limited CD-edition
Ozella Music offers a special limited edition off the latest album NORSKjazz.no.
Check out the link!
Ozella Music
21.08.2009
Skoddeheimen
About the music on the forthcoming CD “Skoddeheimen”
My encounter with Ola Hunderi and the story of his life with Inger Anne before and after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease has had a profound impact on me as a person and as an artist. It is a powerful experience to literally watch how her illness progressed through the pictures she painted. It is equally powerful to read about it in the words of Ola. The description of “the path into the land of mist”, also in his poems, is written beautifully, openly and soberly.
Setting these pictures and words to music is a great challenge. Actually, I am not sure that it is even possible. The words, pictures and music must each function individually, in their own universe, before they can be combined into a common idiom. So in this CD I have tried to create independent sounds and different lines that both diverge from the story and, in some ways, perhaps most effectively through contrasts, summarise it or evoke similarities with it. The course of the story runs from the upbeat, exuberant and fantastic to the difficult, hopeless and darkly bleak. But in the final analysis, it is really about the love between two people. And love is and remains the most beautiful of all things.
I hope that the music on the CD can provide food for thought, and perhaps some consolation, while also opening up a space for contemplation within the listener. And I hope that we never cease to be amazed by life, art – and love.
Karl Seglem, July 2009
27.07.2009
Intervju på Ballade, sommar 2009
30.05.2009
First Norwegian reviews for NORSKjazz.no
Three reviews in daily newspapers: Dagbladet, Dagsavisen and Sogns Avis. Read it here:
http://norcd.no/links.php
27.02.2009
NEW ALBUM IN MAY 2009
Journalist Terje Mosnes has said that he defines Norwegian jazz as the music that is being played by Norwegian jazz musicians at any given time, with their multitude of distinctive voices. Seglem has always considered himself to be a jazz musician in the sense that he can improvise. He has never felt that it was important to put a label on his music. But since it is the case that many people want their music placed neatly in a category before they listen to it, he has decided to simplify matters for everyone by calling the new album norskjazz.no (Norwegian Jazz Now ). It will be out in Scandinavia May 25.
11.02.2009
RADIOTIP Seglem/Isungset
Radiotip: WDR 3 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk)
open: soundworld
17.Februar 09, 23:05-24:00
von Kerstin Kilanowski
LOST AND FOUND IN NORWAY
Karl Seglem and Terje Isungset
Pieces of driftwood, goat-horns and soundsculptures
made of ice are some of the musical materials used by the
percussionist Terje Isungset and saxofon-player
Karl Seglem. They approach the borders of jazz,
traditional folkmusic and free improvisation.
By including the untamed Norwegian nature, 'forgotten'
sounds turn into musical landscapes.
During minus-degrees in wintertime Terje Isungset carves
ice-instruments, eliciting soft warm tones from them.
At the same time he works with musicians from China
and Nigeria.
Karl Seglem, tenorsax-player, invites traditional
instrumentalists like the hardanger-fiddler
Hakon Hoegemo, to create sounds never heard before.
A meeting of oscillating harmonics and raw sounds
from nature together with influences of jazz -
out comes a kind of 21st-century grooving 'folk'music.
Now and then the two wild Northern guys get
together to make their raving projects come true.
30.01.2009
Fantastic reviews in Norway for Draumkvedet (THE DREAM BALLAD)
Reviews of Draumkvedet
Berit Opheim Versto & Karl Seglem
"There is such wonderful coherence in this performance â?? a sense of peace and an almost trancelike presentation. These two records lend themselves well to a long inner journey.â??
VÃ?Â¥rt Land (daily newspaper)
(Five stars out of six) "A dream world. Two intense, naked, fascinating and unbelievably beautiful interpretations of this medieval ballade." Aftenposten (daily newspaper)
(Five stars out of six) "Visionary and fantastic: tradition with remix. And that is how this record functions: it practically demands to be listened to over and over again. A splendid new version of Draumkvedet that will be with us for a long time."Bergens Tidende (daily newspaper)
(Five stars out of six) "Here we are talking about Norwegian cultural history, and we should be grateful that somebody is carrying it forward like this."
Varden (daily newspaper)
16.11.2008
Draumkvedet: New duo-album together with Berit Opheim Versto
A new 2CD album will be released Jan 6. 2009 with singer Berit Opheim Versto: The famous medieval ballad "Draumkvedet" (Dream ballade). The release contains one CD with a solo performance from Berit Opheim Versto, recorded in Voss church, and another CD where Karl Seglem has arranged it, playing goat- horns and electronics.
20.08.2008
Karl Seglem to London Jazz Festival
Karl Seglem will participate on Scene Norway - a part of London Jazzfestival 2008. First in a new collaboration with vocalist Lena Nymark, playing at a Reception where HM Crown Prince Haakon opens Scene Norway (Click Link). Then he is doing two concerts on saturday Nov.15 with drummer Terje Isungset and the duo ISGLEM. All concerts at Kings Place.
http://www.norway.org.uk/culture/music/haakon.htm
15.08.2008
Studio work, and opening of new water-apply for city Oslo
After a nice and hectic summer filled with different concerts, Karl Seglem is now preparing for studio work in Gothenburg with Eple trio, and he is composing music to the opening of a new water-supply station for city Oslo to be opened Sept. 18.
Then a new European Tour is coming up in October.
24.05.2008
New Tour in Oslo with Pakistan musicians
Together with Saghir Ali (dhole and shenai) , Muhammad Asghar (voice and chimta) and Lena Skjerdal (voice), Karl Seglem is doing a tour in schools in Oslo with a mix of Pakistan and Norwegian folk music. This is third time he plays with these fantastic musicians from Pakistan, and the music is a hybrid mix of traditions from both countries.
Read more on the NRK Web site (N)
18.05.2008
Porto: Casa de Musica concert with Rao Kyao
Did a very nice concert with Rao Kyao and a six piece band of musicians Ruca Rebordao, Jose Peixoto, Helge Norbakken and Gjermund Silset. Great stage and good atmosphere. Also had the change to taste wonderful Bacalao - and great Rao showed us to the Port wine house of Oval. Some bottles in my cellar now!
Soon back to Lisboa to play with them again. Look forward to it.
04.02.2008
Two gigs at BY:Larm
Karl Seglem, ten.sax, goat horns, Håkon Høgemo, Hardanger fiddles, Olav Torget, guitars, konting, Gjermund Silset, bass, Erland Dahlen, drums.
By:Larm is Scandinavia’s largest music conference. Every year it moves from one Norwegian city to another. By:Larm consists of two parts: a festival and a conference. The conference is a meeting place for the Norwegian and foreign music industries. A series of lectures, seminars and debates are held during the day. The festival concerts take place at night and are open to the public. Their main focus is to present artists that are on the verge of success, either in their homelands or internationally. By:Larm’s main office is in Oslo A local administrative office is set up each year in the host city. In the last ten years by:Larm has been held in Tromsø, Bergen, Stavanger, Kristiansand and Trondheim. By:Larm 2008 takes place in Oslo 21-23 February.
www.bylarm.no
Håkon Høgemo (left) and Karl Seglem
23.01.2008
Showcases at APAP and concert at Scandinavia House in New York
After two showcases at APAP and one concert at Scandinavia House in New York / USA, offers from festivals and tour promotors now starting to come.
Hopefully we will go back in September/October 2008 and do some festival-gigs and concerts.
Read more about the New York visit here (Norwegian only).
20.01.2008
Preparing for France
The coming week-end I will play in Nantes. First a showcase together with Håkon Høgemo at a FNAC store - on friday Jan. 25. Then I will play with my quintet on BRECHES FESTIVAL on saturday Jan. 26. Look forward to it!
28.12.2007
By:larm
By:larm - this year in Oslo, presents Seglem with band on February 22 at dogA.
by:larm flyer (PDF 176 KB)