Hubro Norway Vinilo y CD

Review: For the last 20 years, Norwegian guitarist and composer Kim Myhr has been touring the world and taking his lush sounds to avid audiences. He is a veteran of several solo albums and plays organ, bass, keys, electric and acoustic guitar and sings and plays drum machines. Sympathetic Magic is the follow-up to his You me long player from 2017 and is expansive jazz played by eight musicians. It is driven by cosmic currents and song-like structures that seem to grow ever bigger and surround you in an ocean of celestial sounds. An old 70s Yamaha organ he bought just as he started writing the record defines much of the sound.

Review: Nils Okland, known for his innovative playing style on the Hardanger fiddle, violin, and viola d'amore, comes from the folk music tradition and internationally recognized, is interested in the journeys and dialogues of music across time and space, a music without national and traditional borders. But he is also inspired by local music from various places and often prefers old fiddlers and singers who have a unique personal playing style. The Nils Okland Band debuted in 2014 and since then has released the Norwegian Grammy-nominated Kjolvatn on ECM and Lysning on Hubro. It has been seven years since their last release but now the highly anticipated album Gjenskinn (Gleam) arrives after being worked on for a long time. It is a genre-defying, cohesive work inspired by influences from around the world.