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GURLS! GURLS are not afraid of being straightforward when they present their self-ironic songs on topics such as background singers, pork chop lovers, good-looking boy yodellers, or being single and desperate. Here three of Norway\u2019s busiest musicians get together in what they themselves have called a musical breather, and the result will make you want to laugh, sway your hips and maybe even blush a bit. Since the beginning in Trondheim in 2013, singer Emilie Nicolas has been replaced with Rohey Taalah who has really taken Norway by storm the last year, with her own band Rohey. Saxophonist and songwriter Hanna Paulsberg (Hanna Paulsberg Concept, TJO & Chick Corea) and bassist Ellen Andrea Wang (Pixel, Manu Katch\u00e9, Sting) make up the rest of this bright young trio. ‘If one were to use the concept of a \u2018supergroup\u2019 about anybody in the Norwegian jazz scene, Gurls would be an obvious candidate for that label.’ Olav Opsvik,\u00a0Jazz i Norge Their debut album, ‘Run Boy, Run’ – produced by the group themselves and K\u00e5re Vestrheim (Highasakite, Marit Larsen) in Propeller Studio.<\/p>\n
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GURLS are not afraid of being straightforward when they present their self-ironic songs on topics such as background singers, pork chop lovers, good-looking boy yodellers, or being single and desperate.<\/p>\n
GURLS now release their debut album, "Run Boy, Run" – produced by the group themselves and K\u00e5re Vestrheim (Highasakite, Marit Larsen) in Propeller Studio. ‘If one were to use the concept of a \u2018supergroup\u2019 about anybody in the Norwegian jazz scene, GURLS would be an obvious candidate for that label.’ Olav Opsvik,\u00a0Jazz i Norge Rohey Taalah: Vocalist from Oslo. Studied jazz in Trondheim, and has taken the Norwegian music scene by storm in the past year with the quartet Rohey. She received the Trondheim Jazz Festival\u2019s talent award in 2015, and the jury\u2019s reasoning was as follows: ‘The Trondheim Jazz Festival\u2019s talent award in 2015 is being given to a free and fearless singer with genuine curiosity and immense energy in everything she does. She is unusually distinctive and powerfully expressive, and is also an extremely talented songwriter.’ Ellen Andrea Wand: Bassist from Hov in S\u00f8ndre Land. Studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music, and is active with her own trio as well as with the quartet Pixel. Ellen was the regular bass player in Manu Katch\u00e9\u2019s band for several years, and received the prestigious DNB award at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival in 2015. ‘Ellen Andrea Wang is expanding the scope of Norwegian jazz.’ Audun Vinger, newspaper\u00a0Dagens N\u00e6ringsliv, September 2017. Hanna Paulsberg: Saxophonist from Rygge. Studied jazz in Trondheim and has released three albums in her own name. She has also played with musicians such as Chick Corea, Bugge Wesseltoft and Bobo Stenson. Hanna was appointed as an ambassador for the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2015, and was chosen as 2011\u2019s Young Nordic Jazz Comet. ‘But what really gets my soul vibrating is the saxophone playing of Hanna Paulsberg. I have yet to attend a concert where she doesn\u2019t add something extra.’ Kim Kleve, newspaper\u00a0Dagbladet, after the Molde Jazz Festival, July 2017.<\/p>\n
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