Ei aning grønt (a sense of green) Karl Seglem

• 1 Ei aning grønt (a sense of green) 05:42
• 2 Volve 04:45
• 3 Vinden og eg 05:20
• 4 Skuggen 04:42
• 5 Travaren 04:17
• 6 Hardingfelefabel 02:59
• 7 Rit Again 04:12
• 8 Dagdikt 04:55
• 9 Jordtjuv 03:06
• Total Runtime 39:58

Info for Ei aning grønt (a sense of green)

This album is a collections of compositions for tenor sax, recorded with different musicians I have been so lucky to work with over both short and long periods. It´s not a best of album, but it points out some new directions in my music. Even if songs like „Rit again“ goes way back, the time frame of recording this material is 2017-2022. I felt the time was ripe to focus on my main instrument and make an album. The goat horn adventures has without doubt inspired my way of playing the tenorsax – and opposite. The keywords for me are breath and klang. Music takes time and you have to be patient. Breathing through this piece of metal for so many years has given me a signature. I often get the question: Is it jazz? I often answer: I don´t know. It is KarlSeglemMusic and I improvise too. My inspirations are many and diverted. Nature, people, art, food, cities, wine – to mention a few. And maybe my main inspiration is to be on stage and play concerts with fellow musicians that also love what we do? Live music is still the highest (and healing) force for me.

But my breath, and music, can not heal the earth. My latest poetry collection „Deep fear. Deep tranquility“(2022) has a red line pointing on climate change and loss of nature. It is most important that we speak, read, write, play, compose, tell and focus more that we want to and must change our way of living. Minimize our consume and agree on new directions, find new ways of thinking about the future for our children and for our holy beautiful mother earth. I am lucky who have the skills to create. My way. I feel very privileged. I feel rich in so many ways. This is an instrumental album, but the last track, Jordtjuv, (Earth Thief) points further and is a written and read poem. During summer 2023 I will finalize a diverted and conceptional album also including poetry and goat horns: Mytevegar (myth-path-hope). I hope you will find some hope in my music. In my creations. Thank you for reading this, and most of all, thank you for listening to my music.

Karl Seglem, tenor saxophone
Andreas Ulvo, piano, synthesizer
Håkon Høgemo, hardanger fiddle
Erlend Viken, hardanger fiddle
Kenneth Lien, mouth harp, Norwegian droned zither
Ketil Thorbjørnsen, guitars
Reidar Skår, electronics
Hallvard Gaardløs, bass
Odd Einar Nordheim, vocals
Svein Schultz, bass
Kåre Opheim, drums
Sigurd Hole, bass
Jonas Howden Sjøvaag, drums

Karl Seglem
is described as one of the most exciting contemporary tenor saxophonists and composers in Norway. He has consistently extended musical frontiers with his original perspectives and daring improvisational style. He combines Norway's rich folk music traditions, both the vocal traditions and specially the Hardanger fiddle music, with his own mode of expression. Seglem creates modern soundscapes, a mix between jazz, folk, world, where improvisation and composition are given equal weight.

His saxophone tone blazes a fresh trail through his innovative use of breath, resonance and syncopation. Seglem also plays the Norwegian goat horns. His many CD recordings with different ensembles such as UTLA, SOGN-A-SONG and ISGLEM ranges across the entire spectrum from rooted folk to free form, and is inspired by deep Norwegian roots, via world beats to the poetic and dramatic Nordic landscape.He has composed and performed several works/pieces and has produced a number of CDs for mainly Norwegian, but also some Swedish artists.

This album contains no booklet.