Sidsel Endresen / Jan Bang

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SIDSEL ENDRESEN & JAN BANG

ON REQUEST 2019

Norwegian avantgarde pioneer Sidsel Endresen has deﬁned and re-deﬁned vocal sound since her break-through in the early 1980s. Sidsel Endresen has worked with a vast number of musicians - in Norway and abroad, written music for ﬁlms, theatrical productions as well as other commissioned work. She continues to be of huge inspiration to young vocalists (and improvisers in general!) around the globe. Her work has spanned genres from "fusion" and "jazz-rock in the -80's ,to free-improvisation,electronics and "new music" in the -90's and the new millennium.

Jan Bang

His musical career began in the late ‘80s, when he cut his first albums in a synth-and-vocals duo with Erik Honoré. By the ‘90s he was a producer of Norwegian pop acts, when pianist Bugge Wesseltoft invited him on stage with an improvising ensemble. “I had the idea of using musicians as ‘input’ to my sampler instead of vinyl,” recalls Bang. “We called it ‘live sampling.’ I found it appealing to work in a live situation with improvised music where things change at the blink of an eye. -I was able to work in past, present and future, according to what the other musicians were doing and how they reacted to what I was throwing back into the mix.”

Forward

The long-standing musical relationship between Sidsel Endresen and Jan Bang has been one of evolution. Each beginning as individual chart-topping artists in various European countries in their own right, they have journeyed further from those roots into more daring, experimental and expressive territories.

The live interaction of Endresen’s unique voice and Bang’s singular mastery of live sampling creates a music that is predictable only in its ability to surprise, cajole, shock and seduce audiences in equal measure. The warmth they project makes them a rare thing: experimentalists that entertain.

Sidsel - vokal - jan Bang, sampling, live re-mix

Sidsel Endresen & Jan Bang
Live at Hexagon, Grenoble

Sidsel on working with Bang:

– The duo interplay with Jan Bang is 100% improvised – everything is created there and then. The two of us have worked together for years now, and have created close musical bonds over time.

– In my view, Jan is a unique creator and performer with his distinct instrumentarium, a hands-on improviser as well as an inspiring artistic partner. He is blessed with extremely good timing skills, big ears and a great clarity in terms of esthetic choices and form/structure. To add to that, he constantly challenges my vocal role through our concerts.

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Vennlig Hilsen / Best Kjell Kalleklev Management AS Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen Norway Org.nr. 995637774, tlf:+4755557635 Fax:+4755557631 / mob: +4791103280 mail:kjell@kalleklev.no

Vennlig Hilsen / Best

Kjell Kalleklev Management AS
Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen Norway
Org.nr. 995637774, tlf:+4755557635
Fax:+4755557631 / mob: +4791103280
mail:kjell@kalleklev.no