Særingfest 2019
A festival within a festival – raw, real and unique!
Særingfest is an entire evening of music, sound and noise in all forms and varieties - quite simply a festival within a festival!
Særingfest was first organized in 2017, and is now a regular "festival" in the festival. At Smeltehytta this evening, the audience gets a full evening of improvisational music, good food and a great atmosphere. Two of the most important driving forces in improvisational music in Norway, Ståle Liavik Solberg og Paal Nilssen-Love, are also this time behind the programme.
The idea behind Særingfest is a consistent love for free improvisation and the most experimental and wacky varieties within jazz music - and always with an ear for the best the scene has to offer. This is the foundation of Særingfest, which is well placed to accommodate everything from game romp on the living room floor, via confidential conversations in the kitchen to cuddling in the bedroom. Raw, real and unique - only for Særingefest!
The doors open at approx. 18:00
Concert start at 19:30
Accompanying person with an accompanying certificate: only needs to buy a seat ticket and only pays the ticket fee. Contact Ticketmaster for further information.
Ikue Mori – electronics
Since the late XNUMXs, Ikue Mori has been a central player on the experimental scene in New York. She played drums in Arto Lindsay's pioneering group DNA and has later played electronics with the likes of John Zorn, Fred Firth, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore.
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar
After studying classical and jazz for a number of years, Jasper Stadhouders jumped off the commercial scene and moved on to the improv scene full time. With Cactus Truck, Made To Break and a number of other projects, he travels the world in the service of music.
Ståle Liavik Solberg – drums
Through projects with the likes of John Butcher, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Jaimie Branch; and with bands such as Pan-Scan Ensemble and Will it float? Ståle Liavik Solberg is an active participant in the Norwegian and international flow of creative improv musicians. When he is not playing himself, he is one of the driving forces and passionate souls in Norwegian free jazz through his work with the concert series and the festival Blow Out.
About his last record with solo bass, End to End (ECM), he says this:
I play everything based on what my ear suggests I play, with no objective editing. And my ear is fed by a pool of accumulated musical experiences stored in my memory, mental memory and muscle memory. My active role is to do the best I can to play on my instrument what my ear is suggesting.
Exactly what he will play at Særingfest is only one way to find out, but the warmth and playfulness from End to End will probably be strongly present.
JAIMIE BRANCH & HAMID DRAKE
At Smeltehytta, we hear a duo that utilizes the entire spectrum and is not afraid to challenge themselves and each other to find new musical paths.
In recent years, Jaimie Branch has arrived as a comet on the international jazz scene. With the album and the band Fly or Die, she has shown an organic mixture of energetic grooves and open and meditative melody lines. In addition, she has excelled in a bunch of other projects, including with Rob Mazurek, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Mars Williams.
At Særingfesten, we meet her in interaction with a true legend, namely Hamid Drake. He has played with heroes such as Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders and Herbie Hancock and is one half of the "dream team" together with William Parker on bass. They have played trios with Kidd Jordan, Frode Gjerstad, Fred Anderson and Peter Brötzmann to name a few, and they also have a brilliant duo.
Jaimie Branch – trumpet
Hamid Drake – drums, percussion
MONSOON / MØSTER / FLATEN / KNEDAL ANDERSEN
Norwegian all-star trio with English reinforcement!
Here are three Norwegian musicians who should be known to most people. They keep jazz free and pumped up with things as diverse as Atomic, MØSTER!, The Heat Death, Akode and The Young Mothers as well as collaboration projects with an impressive array of legends within the more experimental part of jazz.
Rachel Musson is an important musician on the improv scene in London where, among other things, she has the trios with Julie Kjær and Hannah Marshall, and Pat Thomas and Mark Sanders, respectively.
When these four meet, we can expect a solid dose of power jazz on the eve of Særingfesten.
Rachel Musson – saxophone
Kjetil Møster – saxophone
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten – bass
Dag Erik Knedal Andersen – drums
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