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Ketil Bjørnstad - Nightwalker (Fender Rhodes Version) (2023)

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Ketil Bjørnstad - Nightwalker (Fender Rhodes Version) (2023)

Ketil Bjørnstad - Nightwalker (Fender Rhodes Version) (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 168 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | 01:04:40
Chamber Jazz, Classical | Label: Grappa

Nightwalker is a suite inspired by Ketil Bjornstads own experiences as a 'nightwalker' …in nature, in the streets of Oslo or in a musical landscape.

Ketil Bjørnstad - Sunrise: A Cantata on Texts by Edvard Munch (2013)

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Ketil Bjørnstad - Sunrise: A Cantata on Texts by Edvard Munch (2013)

Ketil Bjornstad - Sunrise: A Cantata on Texts by Edvard Munch (2013)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 380 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 185 MB | Covers - 22 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ECM Records (ECM 2336)

Ketil Bjørnstad previously explored the life of Edvard Munch in his acclaimed 1993 novel Historien om Edvard Munch. When invited to compose music for choir in 2011 his thoughts turned once again to Munch and to the writings, still not widely known, of the proto-Expressionist Norwegian painter. With these as his guide, Bjørnstad shaped Soloppgang (“Sunrise”) subtitled “A cantata on texts by Edvard Munch”. In his liner notes, Bjørnstad observes that “the texts written by Munch can be compared to his paintings in their power and intensity.
He wanted to be a writer as well as a painter… texts from different periods in Munch’s life have been used in Sunrise. They all portray existentialist dilemmas: surviving or being destroyed, believing or observing”…

Ketil Bjornstad - Vinding's Music - Songs From The Alder Thicket (2012) [2CD's] {ECM 2170-71}

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Ketil Bjornstad - Vinding's Music - Songs From The Alder Thicket (2012) [2CD's] {ECM 2170-71}

Ketil Bjornstad - Vinding's Music - Songs From The Alder Thicket (2012) [2CD's] {ECM 2170-71}
EAC 1.0b2 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 598MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 277MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Classical, Jazz

To celebrate the 60th birthday (on 25 April) of Norwegian jazz pianist/composer/novelist and poet Ketil Bjornstad, ECM issues a double album as "literary soundtrack", its release also coinciding with the Norwegian publication of the one-volume edition of Bjornstad's highly-acclaimed fictional 'Vinding' trilogy, 'To Music', 'The River' and 'The Lady in the Valley'. After keeping his musical and writing activities entirely separate for decades, Renaissance Man Bjornstad dissolved the boundaries with his 'Vinding' books: "When I had the idea of writing a trilogy about the young piano student Aksel Vinding, I realised that I would have to grant music access to my world of writing. This felt surprisingly liberating, almost like a confession.

Ketil Bjørnstad - The World I Used to Know (2019)

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Ketil Bjørnstad - The World I Used to Know (2019)

Ketil Bjørnstad - The World I Used to Know (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 1,68 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 827 Mb | 06:01:10
Contemporary Jazz, Vocal Jazz | Label: Grappa

In the spring of 2018, Ketil Bjornstad realized that it was only a scarce year before 50 years had passed since he debuted as a pianist with the Philharmonic in the University's Aula on January 10, 1969. On that day this year, the celebration of what is Bjornstad's year began. 2019 started with a nice new release of "Rainbow Sessions" in a limited 4cd-boxset. "The World I Used To Know" is recorded at one of the world's most famous studios - Abbey Road in London, more specifically in Studio Two where, among others, The Beatles recorded their material. The album is released not only on cd and double-vinyl, but also as a magnificent box consisting of five cd's. The box contains the recordings from Abbey Road, but also three cd's of music from his entire career with various guest vocalists, and one complete new album recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo.

Ketil Bjørnstad & Eva Bjerga Haugen - Hun Som Kjenner Tristheten Ved Ting (2018)

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Ketil Bjørnstad & Eva Bjerga Haugen - Hun Som Kjenner Tristheten Ved Ting (2018)

Ketil Bjørnstad & Eva Bjerga Haugen - Hun Som Kjenner Tristheten Ved Ting (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 241 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 136 Mb | 00:59:09
Jazz, Folk, Female Vocal | Label: Grappa

Pianist Ketil Bjornstad interprets poems by critically accliamed author Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold's collection "Litt trist matematikk" and performs them together with the vocalist Eva Bjerga Haugen. Transforming poetry and other writings into music is an important part of musician, composer and writer Ketil Bjornstad's work. Most well-known among his works are the interpretations of Harry Martinsson, Knut Hamsun, John Donne and Edvard Munch. Earlier this year he released the critically acclaimed album, "A Suite of Poems" with Anneli Drecker on ECM, where poems by Lars Saabye Christensen was the source of inspiration.

Ketil Bjørnstad - Seafarer's Song (2004)

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Ketil Bjørnstad - Seafarer's Song (2004)

Ketil Bjornstad - Seafarer's Song (2004)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 415 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 194 MB | Covers (6 MB) included
Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Folk Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: EmArcy/Universal Music (0602498657775)

The inside booklet for Norwegian pianist and composer Ketil Bjørnstad's Seafarer's Song begins with a small statement by the Spanish author Juan Jose Millas about the plight of the truly shipwrecked, the ruined in our postmodern times, where messages of distress don't come in bottles, but inside the real human bodies of refugees. It speaks volumes about the music included here. Bjørnstad has given us yet another album of the water to be sure, something he has done since the inception of his solo career for ECM, but he has done so in a completely different way. There is no jazz on the Seafarer's Song, and yes; that's a plus. Utilizing his long-standing band which includes trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, guitarist Eivind Aarset, drummer Per Lindvall, bassist Bjorn Kjellemyr, and cellist Svante Henryson, Bjørnstad ups the ante by employing the brilliant if unconventional vocalist Kristin Asbjornsen…

Ketil Bjørnstad - Floating (2005)

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Ketil Bjørnstad - Floating (2005)

Ketil Bjornstad - Floating (2005)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 295 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 162 MB | Covers - 155 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: EmArcy/Universal Music (0602498728840)

For the first time in his rich and multifaceted career Bjørnstad give us an album with a classic piano-bass-drums trio constellation. It has Palle Danielsson generating his usual warm, earthy bass, and Marilyn Mazur on some varied and sympathetic percussion. Here we encounter melody and Bjørnstad in a new constellation and both thrive. Even though this is the first meeting between the three, there are large doses of empathy present and that they have a lot to talk about.

Ketil Bjørnstad, Tore Brunborg, Jon Christensen - Remembrance (2010)

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Ketil Bjørnstad, Tore Brunborg, Jon Christensen - Remembrance (2010)

Ketil Bjornstad - Remembrance (2010)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 240 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 121 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ECM Records (ECM 2149)

Pianist Ketil Bjornstad's music is typically in the Scandinavian division of ECM tradition - cool, seamless, flowing, emotionally consistent. This series of eleven selections titled by Roman numerals progresses through a life cycle that reaches a nebulous pinnacle. With no bass player, tenor saxophonist Tore Brunborg and the always inventive drummer Jon Christensen - all veterans of Euro-classical-textured jazz - weave through various aspects of contemporary jazz while mindful of natural and spiritual elements. In Bjornstad's playing, you circular notions of former ECM stablemate, pianist Mike Nock, peace-based hymnal and traditional themes, a waltz, a short stack of mystery, and just a smattering of the blues…

Ketil Bjornstad - La Notte (2013) {ECM 2300}

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Ketil Bjornstad - La Notte (2013) {ECM 2300}

Ketil Bjornstad - La Notte (2013) {ECM 2300}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 400dpi | 296MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 145MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz

Commissioned by the Molde International Jazz Festival and recorded live at the Norwegian festival in 2010, “La notte” is a salute to Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, whom Ketil Bjørnstad counts amongst his formative influences. “At the same time that I discovered what jazz could be, after listening to Miles Davis’ In A Silent Way, I also saw the films by Godard, Bresson and Antonioni. Perhaps it was the slow, rhythmic authority in the films by Michelangelo Antonioni that made me think of music… As long as visual art creates music in our minds, and music creates pictures and visual expressions with the same intensity, the two are deeply and profoundly interdependent”. This album, then, can be considered “the soundtrack to an inner film”, in which Antonioni’s images and atmospheres are translated and transformed through personal moods and memories.

Ketil Bjornstad - A Passion For John Donne (2014) {ECM 2394}

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Ketil Bjornstad - A Passion For John Donne (2014) {ECM 2394}

Ketil Bjornstad - A Passion For John Donne (2014) {ECM 2394}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 400dpi | 369MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 166MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Classical, Chamber

Ketil Bjørnstad's passion for the English metaphysical poet John Donne (1572-1631) is a lifelong affair. The Norwegian pianist-composer's settings of Donne's verse have led to recordings including The Shadow, Grace, the ECM album The Light, and now this important disc. "After working with the texts of John Donne for more than twenty years, I still find new approaches to understanding what he wrote and I find music throughout. It is in the language, in the rhythm, in the silence between the sentences - a passionate quest for meaning and reconciliation. Donne's dramatic life is reflected in the texts and everywhere in them you will find the passion, melodies and sounds".

Ketil Bjørnstad, David Darling, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen - The Sea (1995)

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Ketil Bjørnstad, David Darling, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen - The Sea (1995)

Ketil Bjornstad, David Darling, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen - The Sea (1995)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 322 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ECM Records (ECM 1545)

This CD from pianist Ketil Bjornstad fits the ECM stereotype. The music is generally mournful, full of space, floating and very much a soundtrack for one's thoughts. The 12 parts of "The Sea," which find Bjornstad joined by cellist David Darling, guitarist Terje Rypdal and drummer Jon Christensen, set somber moods rather than introduce memorable themes and the only real excitement is supplied by Rypdal's rockish guitar.