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Landscape painting in song form<\/p>\n
On their new album Ketil Bj\u00f8rnstad and Ole Paus take us along on a \u201cjourney inward\u201d with 17 newly written songs. \u201cFROLANDIA \u2013 17 sanger\u201d is a personal tribute to the landscape and the small inland communities that form much of Norway, and to the people who live their lives there. At the same time it represents a new high point in the collaboration between two good friends who have worked together for several decades, and who have always been able to bring out each other\u2019s innovative and creative strengths. Ketil Bj\u00f8rnstad lived on Vestre Sand\u00f8ya, near Tvedestrand, for 16 years, and was not only captivated by the undeniably lovely natural surroundings of the coast, but was also struck by the beauty of the inland landscape that he encountered in Froland. Bj\u00f8rnstad wanted to compose a collection of songs that would serve as a counterpart to the coast-and-sea lyrics that culminated in Ulf Lundell\u2019s \u201c\u00d6ppna Landskap\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ole Paus had announced that he was retiring as a recording artist after his bestselling triple album \u201cAvslutningen\u201d in 2013, but nevertheless immediately agreed to join Bj\u00f8rnstad when the latter asked him to go into the studio with the songs on \u201cFrolandia\u201d. Bj\u00f8rnstad once said that he never writes a melody without having Ole Paus\u2019s voice in mind. An extraordinarily strong band, with Annbj\u00f8rg Lien on fiddle and keyed fiddle in the forefront. The album was recorded at Kongshavn Studio, Kristiansand, with technician Roald R\u00e5sberg, and later mixed by Jan Erik Kongshaug at Rainbow Studio in Oslo. It was produced by Ketil Bj\u00f8rnstad.<\/p>\n
Concert: Kongsberg Jazzfestival, 4 July 2015<\/p>\n
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Landscape painting in song form. On their new album Ketil Bj\u00f8rnstad and Ole Paus take us along on a \u201cjourney inward\u201d with 17 newly written songs. \u201cFROLANDIA \u2013 17 sanger\u201d is a personal tribute to the landscape and the small inland communities that form much of Norway, and to the people who live their lives there. At the same time it represents a new high point in the collaboration between two good friends who have worked together for several decades, and who have always been able to bring out each other\u2019s innovative and creative strengths.<\/p>\n
Ole Paus had announced that he was retiring as a recording artist after his bestselling triple album \u201cAvslutningen\u201d in 2013, but nevertheless immediately agreed to join Bj\u00f8rnstad when the latter asked him to go into the studio with the songs on \u201cFrolandia\u201d. Bj\u00f8rnstad once said that he never writes a melody without having Ole Paus\u2019s voice in mind. Nobody else can convey this material in the same way. The duo describe the project as both personal and important, and regard this recording as one of the finest they have ever made.<\/p>\n
Paus and Bj\u00f8rnstad first worked together in the recording studio in 1973, when Bj\u00f8rnstad played piano and electric piano on Paus\u2019s first album, \u201cBlues for Pyttsan Jespersens P\u00e5r\u00f8rende\u201d. Two years later they recorded the double album \u201cLise Madsen, Moses og de andre\u201d as a duo. Bj\u00f8rnstad produced Ole Paus\u2019s record \u201cZarepta\u201d in 1977, and in 1978 Paus sang the role of Hans J\u00e6ger on Bj\u00f8rnstad\u2019s legendary triple album \u201cLeve Patagonia\u201d. Paus also appeared in two songs on Ketil Bj\u00f8rnstad\u2019s double album \u201cTidevann\u201d, and in 1984 on \u201cMine Dager i Paris\u201d, which was nominated for a Spellemannspris, the Norwegian Grammy. The 1982 album \u201cBj\u00f8rnstad\/Paus\/Hamsun\u201d has achieved cult status, and the football book \u201cReisen til Gallia\u201d, from the Football World Cup in France in 1998, was one of that year\u2019s bestsellers. The album \u201cKildens bredd\u201d, where the duo presented Norwegian romances and national songs from the 1800s, was given the highest possible rating by the newspaper Dagbladet when it was released 13 years ago.<\/p>\n
On \u201cFrolandia \u2013 17 sanger\u201d the duo have gathered an extraordinarily strong band, with Annbj\u00f8rg Lien on fiddle and keyed fiddle in the forefront. The album was recorded at Kongshavn Studio, Kristiansand, with technician Roald R\u00e5sberg, and later mixed by Jan Erik Kongshaug at Rainbow Studio in Oslo. It was produced by Ketil Bj\u00f8rnstad.<\/p>\n
Concert: Kongsberg Jazzfestival, 4 July 2015<\/p>\n
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