Morten Qvenild: Personal Piano 2.0
Morten Qvenild presents his solo project Personal Piano: 2.0 - for the first time live!
Morten Qvenild is the musician who tours with A-ha one week, plays improvisational music with Gard Nilssen or the improvising computer KimAuto the other and works with Frode Grytten or Marit Larsen in the studio the third. And does everything in between. This versatility gives him a constantly present footprint in Norwegian music life!
Morten Qvenild's record Personal Piano was released in 2016, and he has since toured with this material in Norway and Europe. This record was nominated for two Spellemann awards and was the result of a ground-breaking artistic doctoral work in which Morten dealt with the acoustic piano and added various electronic and vocal extensions.
With the pandemic, the physical urge to go out was dampened for natural reasons, and in order to further develop the project, Morten Qvenild's studio at Nesodden, Ugla Lyd, became an important tool. In order to continue to keep his faith in music's own urge to go out, Morten set about composing songs for Personal Piano 2.0, and through the pandemic has released this music track by track from his workspace through his own BandCamp page.
Now this new music is being turned into a concert, and this is the first time we get to hear this material together live. The concert will oscillate between a post-corona blowout and a meditation, where we will hear one down-to-earth but at the same time complex concert based on Morten's songs and lyrics mixed with improvised paths that wind through the landscape. And perhaps the occasional more or less recognizable pop song.
The music is a fusion of Qvenild's personal voice and an organic-technical highly and complex instrument.
Together the two shout out:
We want pop music!
We want melodies!
We want resistance!
We want noise!
We want the birch, the restlessness, the snow, the words, the trees, the pine, the melancholy, the cabin, the ashes, the uncertainty, the metal, the electrons, the euphoria, the brooding, the skiing, the underground, the overwater, the kayak, the country music, the countryside, the dark chords and the shimmering light.
(Morten Qvenild has contributed to around 100 releases in jazz and related sounds. In the Country, The National Bank, Solveig Slettahjell Slomo Quintet, Susanne Sundfør, Arve Henriksen, Thomas Dybdahl, Martin Hagfors, Marit Larsen, Nils Petter Molvær, Shining, Jaga Jazzist, Trinity and Susanna and the Magical Orchestra are some of his collaborations carried out during two decades as a musician, composer and producer.
Morten Qvenild – grand piano, vocals and electronics, Stig Gunnar Ringen – sound, TBA – Lights/video
Special guest: Solveig Lettahjell
The concert starts at 14:00
The doors open at 13:00
