Sigurd Hole Solo at Kulturkirken Jakob

JAZZJOURNAL (5/5): "Not even his stunning solo album Elvesang (2018) could prepare you for the truly monumental nature of this music. Recorded indoors and en plein air during a stay at a remote Arctic retreat, Lys/Mørke is Hole’s powerful eulogy for a dying planet".

Sigurd Hole´s new solo double bass album "Lys / Mørke" ( Light / Darkness ) was premiered in Carnegie Hall early February this year and has been celebrated by critics worldwide ever since. Recorded partly outdoors on the arctic island of Fleinvær off the coast of Northern Norway, it puts a special focus on the relationship between humanity and the rest of nature. Join in on this very special solo recital live stream from the wonderful Jakob Church in Oslo to experience some of the natural beauty and fragility captured in this unique music created up north....

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JAZZJOURNAL (5/5): "Not even his stunning solo album Elvesang (2018) could prepare you for the truly monumental nature of this music. Recorded indoors and en plein air during a stay at a remote Arctic retreat, Lys/Mørke is Hole’s powerful eulogy for a dying planet".

Sigurd Hole´s new solo double bass album "Lys / Mørke" ( Light / Darkness ) was premiered in Carnegie Hall early February this year and has been celebrated by critics worldwide ever since. Recorded partly outdoors on the arctic island of Fleinvær off the coast of Northern Norway, it puts a special focus on the relationship between humanity and the rest of nature. Join in on this very special solo recital live stream from the wonderful Jakob Church in Oslo to experience some of the natural beauty and fragility captured in this unique music created up north.

Time: 8 PM local Norwegian time / 2 PM CST
Tickets: by donation, link in FB-event or in livestream

DOWNBEAT (4,5/5): "What pushes Hole´s bass work into the realm of the sublime, are his refined sense of improvisation and painterly subtelty"

NEW YORK TIMES: "Ruminative and openhearted"

THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD: "Masterstrokes... sublime folk tales from the heart"

WRITTEN IN MUSIC: "With Lys / Mørke, Hole has a made an album in which music and nature intertwine making completely new musical paths. He draws us to a very exciting new musical world. A world that is better and more beautiful than the one we live in."

THE WIRE: "Listen on headphones while tramping through the woods"

BBC: "It feels as if though his roots are in something terribly old ... An overlap of the ancientness of folk music of many kinds, and the ancientness of landscape"

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