“His music brings to mind open, powerful
landscapes, rugged mountains outlined on a dark
horizon, and a foaming sea during a storm. His
sound is like a shadow in a late summer evening,
suffused with pulsating light from a low sun.”
This was how the German newspaper
Süddeutsche Zeitung reviewed a recent concert
by Karl Seglem. The tenor saxophonist was
compared to stars such as Brian Eno and John
Coltrane, and his concerts were described as long
musical journeys through his native country of
Norway – and through the history of jazz.
It is a major event that Seglem now has put
together a new and very powerful album. A mix
from his work with his WorldJazz-band where his
collaborating friend, The Hardanger fiddle master
Håkon Høgemo is the powerful motor in many
ways.
The album demonstrates to the full the
outstanding work accomplished by the musician
and composer as an innovative tradition-bearer at
the musical interface between jazz and folk music.
There are few musicians in Europe who have
developed such a genuinely distinctive musical
language.