Heidi Skjerve & Daniel Formo & Friends - I’m Glad There Is You (February 14, 2022)

Jazz vocalist Heidi Skjerve and pianist Daniel Formo have shared sunny days and rainy days, laundry, renovation projects and parenting for many years, but have now for the first time recorded an album together. During the recent pandemic times when we all have realized just how much people need other people, and how musicians need other musicians to play with, they gathered some topnotch jazz musicians at Øra Studio in Trondheim to record some of their favorite jazz standards about love and longing. The result is the present release “I’m Glad There Is You”, featuring a playful rhythmic and improvisational approach to the melodies, strong and seductive harmonies and arrangements referring to some of the great recordings from the jazz tradition.

1. ’Round Midnight 04:08

2. I’m Glad There Is You 05:21

3. Lazy Afternoon 05:32

4. Come Rain or Come Shine 04:25

5. You Go To My Head 04:55

6. Social Call 03:33

7. You’ve Changed 04:46

8. What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry 03:34

9. I’ll Be Seeing You 04:19

10. People 03:58

Heidi Skjerve - Vocals

Daniel Formo - Piano

Bjørn Marius Hegge - Bass

Håkon Mjåset Johansen - Drums

Mona Krogstad - Tenor Saxophone (5, 6, 8)

Klaus Ellerhusen Holm - Alto Saxophone & Clarinets (1, 3, 6, 7)

Marthe Belsvik Stavrum - Flute (2)

Produced by Heidi Skjerve

Recorded by Jo Ranheim at Øra studio, Trondheim, August 8 & 9 2021

Mixed by Jo Ranheim at Øra studio

Mastered by Karl Klaseie at Øra mastering

Photos by Juliane Schütz

2022 Particular Recordings Collective

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Hamar Trio - Yesterday Is Here (CLEAN FEED RECORDS 2018)

Here is an example of a specially well succeeded co-operation between a notorious representative of the Norwegian scene (Klaus Ellerhusen Holm) and two of the Portuguese one (Hernâni Faustino and Nuno Morão), combining the recordings of live presentations in a couple of spaces dedicated to creative music in Portugal, Salão Brazil (Coimbra) and SMUP (Parede). If you’re a Clean Feed fan you already listened other titles documented in both venues, by the likes of Steve Lehman, Ken Vandermark’s and Adam Lane’s Four Corners, Fredrik Nordstrom Quintet, Daniel Levin Quartet, Zanussi 5, Angles, Harris Heisenstadt’s Canada Day and others. “Yesterday is Here” has the same relevance, and it equals what you know of Holm from the bands Honest John, Ballrogg and Abaft the Beam, of Faustino from Red Trio and of Morão from The Selva: music committed to «celebrate the moment», to paraphrase Derek Bailey, only answering to the appeal of spontaneity and intuition, in a very natural and even organic way. The framing is in jazz and experimentation, meaning that everything else that may happen disregard labels and any sort of categorization. A party for your ears, in short.

Klaus Ellerhusen Holm  clarinet alto saxophone

Hernâni Faustino  double bass

Nuno Morão  drums percussion

1. Yellow Plum 14:54

2. Sjøorm 08:52

3. Sour apple 13:32

4. Yesterday is here 06:26

All music by Klaus Ellerhusen Holm, Hernâni Faustino and Nuno Morão

Recorded November 2016 at Salão Brazil, Coimbra by José Martins and at SMUP, Parede by John Klima | Mixed and mastered by Nuno Morão at ScratchBuilt

Produced by Hamar Trio | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos | Cover photo by Magdalene Norman | Band photo by João Duarte

Ballrogg: Klaus Ellerhusen Holm | Roger Arntzen | Ivar Grydeland - Abaft the Beam (CLEAN FEED RECORDS 2017)

For some time, and for two released albums, Ballrogg was the name of the duo formed by clarinetist and saxophonist Klaus Ellerhusen Holm (Honest John, Large Unit) and double bassist Roger Arntzen (In the Country, Chrome Hill), identified by a captivating approach which combined an exploration of the influence of Jimmy Giufree and Eric Dolphy’s particular brand of jazz with the kind of non-linear structures patented by the indeterminist new music composer Morton Feldman. Meanwhile, a third element joined the project and things got more complex, and that because Ivar Grydeland (Huntsville, Dans les Arbres) brought with him a strong country & western influence. Pointed out as the Bill Frisell of experimental improvised music, Grydeland’s pedal steel guitar and banjo contributions are key to the “free chamber Americana” now proposed by the group, in a much clearer way than the one played by the Chicago’s band Town & Country. Curiously enough, neither of these musicians are from the United States and the music itself denounces its Scandinavian origin. The ability of the North European scene to reinvent «American classical music» (the label Duke Ellington gave to jazz) and even to reinvent the American folk roots is legendary, and here we have one precious example.

1. Aloft 5:37

2. Bear Down 3:36

3. Abaft 5:42

4. Bosom Barb 6:31

5. Avast 3:05

6. Block and Tackle 7:35

7. Anchor's Aweigh 6:25

Klaus Ellerhusen Holm  b-clarinet, bass clarinet, bass amplification

Roger Arntzen  double bass

Ivar Grydeland  pedal steel guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, drum machine

All tracks written by Klaus Ellerhusen Holm and arranged by Ballrogg with Ivar Grydeland

Recorded by Morten Qvenild at The Green Room, Nesodden, December 2014 and 2015 | Mixed by Johnny Skalleberg at Amper Tone, June 2016 | Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, October 2016

Produced by Klaus Ellerhusen Holm / Roger Arntzen / Ivar Grydeland | Executive producer Pedro Costa | Design by Travassos