http://calabashmusic.com/New Music From Karl Seglem on Calabash Music2008-12-02T12:26:11ZThe Calabash Music Teamsupport@calabashmusic.comNew Northhttp://karlseglem.calabashmusic.com/#album_936342007-09-04T01:07:41ZMusic from New NorthSaxophonist and composer Karl Seglem has done much to highlight the evolving strengths of music which, essentially, is deeply poetic in nature.

New North is some of the freshest, finest music of their time, with Seglem’s warmly resonant tenor sound and spacious, folk-inflected yet jazz-fuelled phrasing set within textures and arrangements as meditative as they are urgent - and distinguished by striking contributions from such creative compatriots of Seglem as vocalists Berit Opheim and Odd Nordstoga, keyboardist Reidar Skår, Hardanger fiddler Håkon Høgemo, guitarist Morten Sæle and trumpet player Nils Petter Molvaer - to mention a few.

New North is both a consolidation and an expansion of Seglem’s multi-layered yet translucent approach. Here are skirling wildness and lullaby tenderness, joyous heights and troll-like depths; moon-struck dreams and solar lucidity, existential introspection and archetypal, stomping affirmation - the whole united in an aesthetic as rich in the spirit of poetry as it is in that of dance.

Like the great Norwegian writer Tarjei Vesaas, Karl Seglem is able to create a world as concrete, or tangible, in sensuous detail as it is abstract, or expansive, in poetic or reverie-rich overtone. Like Vesaas again, Seglem is a rooted cosmopolitan, one hand set firmly on a lichen-covered boulder, the other raised high to that shape-shifting sky which enfolds both the most urban and the most rural of realms. And like an early elective affinity of his, Jan Garbarek - that great Norwegian singer of what Lorca called the “deep song” of life - Karl Seglem is a musician, a poet, who can help us inhabit, and perhaps even revision, the simplest yet most profound dimensions of our lives. Listen to "New North"]]>Reikhttp://karlseglem.calabashmusic.com/#album_939552007-09-04T01:07:41ZMusic from ReikSeglem’s sound is light, transparent, dreamy but still full of depth and transcendence. His introverted playing incorporates the musical textures of traditional Norwegian music as well as jazz. Karl Seglem grows up with both structures; through him both grow together into something completely new...

He works, here with Reidar Skår, very consciously with the most sophisticated modern studio technology, breathing new life into days gone past and creating organic contact to the matrix of contemporary sound. Karl Seglem finds the most musically sensitive complement for the Reik project in fellow musicians

Nikolai Ivanov (tambura, guitars) and

Harald Skullerud (drums, percussion).

"Reik" - Karl Seglem's landscape of sound as the ambivalence of future and past.]]>Femsteinhttp://karlseglem.calabashmusic.com/#album_696192006-11-17T03:00:35ZMusic from FemsteinA new and distinctively Norwegian music: textures of air, stone, wood and bone in which tenor sax, traditional Hardange rfiddling, goat-horn, rich bass and primal, gutty percussion reconnect with the old ways of north European music to create a powerful beast of mighty melodic line and rhythm. Released in 2004 on Long Distance]]>urbshttp://karlseglem.calabashmusic.com/#album_776512006-12-12T07:40:55ZMusic from urbsKarl Seglem's latest excursion . . .
"Energy from mountains surrounded me when I grew up - from cities I visited, and those I've been living in for half of my life creating new sounds from the fossil inside me - old songs from urbs surrounding me"
 - Karl Seglem]]>