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Suite for the Seagulls en stor suksess!
Noen av dere har sikkert fått med seg at vi gjorde et svært bestillingsverk støttet av norsk kulturråd til årets Sildajazz i 2010. Vi var alle utrolig glade og svært lettet etter konserten, og utrolige glade for vanvittig mange positive og inspirerende tilbakemeldinger fra et entusiastisk publikum! Vi håper på å få til en cd-utgivelse med verket til neste år, så da blir det forhåpentligvis mulighet å se "Suite for the Seagulls" både i Italia og i Norge til neste år!
Samarbeidet med Gnu Quartet fungerte utrolig bra, og vi håper på å få på plass et plateselskap for dette samarbeidet snarest mulig! Stay tuned, vi lover å oppdatere denne websiden litt oftere nå det kommende året, ettersom 2-3 plater er på vei ut i løpet av de neste 2 årene blir det nok litt mer fortgang i nyhetsoppdateringene også her på websiden vår. Mvh Norchestra v/Alf Publisert 23 Aug 2010 av Norchestra
New 8-string Brahms-guitar to reinforce Norchestras sound!
I was in London this weekend to pick up my new handmade 8-string Brahms guitar!
The guitar is made by Martin G. Woodhouse, a luthier that lives in Cambridge. I can already now tell you that it is truly a remarkable instrument! With expanded range almost like a piano and really subtle and delicate sound it will without doubt be another enriching colour to the already colourful palette of Norchestra! To check out some of Martin's instruments go to his website: http://www.woodhouse-guitars.co.uk/ We are currently working with our next cd to be released this autumn, and hopefully some of the compositions on this recording will be featuring my new 8-string Brahms guitar. If you are curious to listen this instrument check out some of Paul Galbraith's recordings. Especially the recording where he interprets French impressionism with Ravel and Debussy is great. Best, Alf on behalf of Norchestra Publisert 17 Feb 2010 av Norchestra
What did Norchestra do in 2008?
The year 2008 is coming to and end, and we thought now to quickly sum up for you what we achieved during this year:
- We signed a record deal with Karl Seglem's label NorCD - We released our debut record in February 2008 followed by a release tour all over Norway - We got amazing and stunning reviews about our debutalbum "Norchestra" from norwegian and international press - We played 5 important gigs in 3 nice festivals this summer: Britannia Hall at Olavsfestdagene festival in Trondheim, Festiviteten Concert Hall at Sildajazz festival, and at the opening and closing ceremony for the Norwegian Film Festival where we performed a comissioned piece composed by Alf Wilhelm Lundberg. This was before the opening film and world-premiere of the great movie "Den siste revejakta". - We signed a deal with German manager Birgit Kramper's Kulturkollektion, hopefully this will result in some tours and many concerts in Germany during 2009 - Last but not the least, we rehearsed and prepared a lot of new compositions that we plan to record during 2009 for our second album. We'll playing some concerts during vinterjazz 2009 in Norway, and we're preparing our first tour abroad this spring. For updates and concert schedule, remember to check out these links: www.norchestra.com www.myspace.com/norchestrax All the best, Alf & Norchestra Publisert 16 Dec 2008 av Norchestra
Norchestra signs contract with German manager Birgit Krampers "Kulturkollektion"
Birgit Kramper is a German manager for german and international artists, and she came to the festival "Kulturnatt" in Norway to see a perfomance with Norchestra in October. We agreed to sign a 1 year contract with her as a manager in Germany exlusively for us in 2009. Hopefully this will result in some tours during 2009 in Germany.
Here is the link to her website and her presentation of us in german and english: http://www.kulturkollektion.de/_site/kollektion/norchestra/_de/index.shtml For those of you that do not understand norwegian this is a great place to check out reviews, info, bios in English! Also there are 3 tracks that are not presented in our myspace pace, in other words, new music to check out. (clips from 3 tracks from our album) Best, Norchestra Publisert 15 Dec 2008 av Norchestra
Two new great reviews from Jazznytt and Nordische Music
Here are some excerpts (in norwegian): Anmeldelse Jazznytt nr 06 2008: Norchestra: "Norchestra"
Alf Wilhelm Lundberg (g, p), Kjetil Olai Lundø (b), Tore Jamne (dr) Utdrag: "Debutinnspillingen er en lyrisk og vakker sak, hvor jazzen blandes med en slags barokktilnærming. Lundberg er en mer enn habil pianist og gitarist, og gitarspillet kan til tider minne om Jim Hall i tilnærmingen. Bassisten Kjetil Lundø og trommeslageren Tore Jamne støtter begge godt opp om Lundbergs fine spill, og plaen har en fin og tilbakelent stemning. Her er det ikke om å gjøre å komme først til hundre, og det høres ut som det er viktig for bandet at hver tone skal komme godt fram.." Anmeldelse Nordische Musik September 2008 4/6 (German) “Gut spielen die drei, allen voran Alf Wilhelm Lundberg, der an Gitarre und Klavier gleichermaßen beeindruckende Technik beweist.” “Die Stücke sind abwechslungsreich: Von einem perlenden Klaviermotiv nach vorn getragen etwa der Titeltrack, meditativ kommt hingegen »Deep Ocean« daher.” Hope you understand German better than we do :) We'll also post some earlier reviews translated to English soon, for those of you that do not understand Norwegian :) For those of you that want to give a nice, beautiful and artistic present to friends or family, we'd like you to recommend you to give away our debutcd. "Norchestra" is recorded and mixed in Rainbow Studio by Jan Erik Kongshaug, and has received stunning reviews from from norwegian and international press. Reviewers seem to concur that our music is highly personal and unique, and still a pleasure to listen to with its raffined mix between jazz, modern classical music and beatiful folkloristic landscapes of Norwegian nature. Our cd can be bought from platekompaniet or music box, or can be ordered on the net from our record company: www.norcd.no (arrives in less than 3 days) Enjoy! Best, Norchestra |