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Debut album from prizewinning Hardanger fiddle talent<\/p>\n
Erlend Apneseth (age 23) is a performer who stands with both feet planted firmly in the world of traditional Norwegian music, but who at the same time improvises and searches for new modes of expression \u2013 all the while with the sounds of the Hardanger fiddle and folk music as his point of departure. His debut album, Blikkspor, offers both inspired improvisations and powerful interpretations of fiddle tunes that have had an impact on him. Apneseth is one of an elite group of fiddlers who compete in category A, the most difficult category at the National Contest for Traditional Music. At this year\u2019s competition he reached the finals and received the Fure Prize, a talent award for musicians under the age of 25. Apneseth has studied at the Ole Bull Academy in Voss and with H\u00e5kon H\u00f8gemo. <\/p>\n
Last year Apneseth was the sixth recipient of Grappa\u2019s New Artist Award, following Valkyrien Allstars, Gjermund Larsen, Siri Nilsen, Frida \u00c5nnevik and Moskus. The jury pointed out that Apneseth \u201cis a musician with a strong personality and the desire to stake out his own path\u201d.
\n\u201cImprovised music appeals to me. It portrays the stories in another way; it depicts something I understand but still can\u2019t fully grasp,\u201d writes Apneseth in the album\u2019s liner notes.
\nBlikkspor was recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo with technician Jan Erik Kongshaug and producer Arve Henriksen. Henriksen is also featured as a guest artist on the album along with guitarist Stephan Meidell and drummer \u00d8yvind Hegg-Lunde.<\/p>\n
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Erlend Apneseth (age 23) is a performer who stands with both feet planted firmly in the world of traditional Norwegian music, but who at the same time improvises and searches for new modes of expression \u2013 all the while with the sounds of the Hardanger fiddle and folk music as his point of departure.
\nHis debut album, Blikkspor, offers both inspired improvisations and powerful interpretations of fiddle tunes that have had an impact on him.<\/p>\n
Last year Apneseth was the sixth recipient of Grappa\u2019s New Artist Award, following Valkyrien Allstars, Gjermund Larsen, Siri Nilsen, Frida \u00c5nnevik and Moskus. The jury pointed out that Apneseth \u201cis a musician with a strong personality and the desire to stake out his own path\u201d.<\/p>\n
It was almost by chance that Apneseth, who was born and raised in J\u00f8lster in Sunnfjord, discovered folk music at the age of 10. \u201cMy father bought me a little fiddle in Burma once when he had been working there. The local fiddler\u2019s group, which at that time had a very active young people\u2019s organisation, was offering lessons. So I just started up with the fiddle I had.\u201d As early as age 14, Apneseth won the National Contest for Traditional Music in R\u00f8ros in category C. Sigmund Eik\u00e5s was one of his first teachers. \u201cAll the contact, conversations and playing with Sigmund Eik\u00e5s throughout the years, as well the support I had at home, have naturally had a tremendous impact,\u201d Apneseth says. He participated on the album J\u00f8lster 2012 along with Sigmund Eik\u00e5s, Synn\u00f8ve Bj\u00f8rset and Gro Marie Svidal. The album was nominated for the Norwegian Folk Music Award in 2012.<\/p>\n
\u201cImprovised music appeals to me. It portrays the stories in another way; it depicts something I understand but still can\u2019t fully grasp,\u201d writes Apneseth in the album\u2019s liner notes. Nils \u00d8kland was one of the musicians who sparked his interest in improvisation. \u201cI found the way he used the fiddle, and how he shaped his music, very exciting. The first time Nils and I met for a lesson it ended up with our just playing together, totally freely.\u201d<\/p>\n
In autumn 2011 Apneseth was hired by the Carte Blanche dance company in Bergen to improvise on solo Hardanger fiddle. \u201cIt was scary, fun, and above all incredibly instructive to be thrown into improvisation like that in front of a paying audience. I suddenly felt as though I had two more years of education all at once.\u201d Since then, Apneseth has been involved in projects with larger improvisational ensembles and folk- and jazz-based groups, with overtone singer Torgeir Vassvik, and with poet Erlend O. N\u00f8dtvedt. He appeared as a soloist with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and is \u201cartist of the month\u201d at the Norwegian Hub for Traditional Music and Dance in autumn 2013.<\/p>\n
Blikkspor was recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo with technician Jan Erik Kongshaug and producer Arve Henriksen. Henriksen is also featured as a guest artist on the album along with guitarist Stephan Meidell and drummer \u00d8yvind Hegg-Lunde.<\/p>\n
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