Øystein Sevåg Global House Band - The Red Album (2010)

“Is it possible to unite 70’s jazz-rock, baroque violin a’ la Bach and New Age-music?
The answer is yes, with Øystein Se våg’s Global House Band. And they’re happy to mix in a bit of Australian didgeridoo as well. The result; The Red Album, is truly remarkable. It is an album with enormous commercial potential, and at the same time an album of completely honest musical expression. Free of compromise, it is conventional and groundbreaking at the same time. Sevåg is back as a centerpiece in the improvisational music-scene.

It is truly a remarkable band he has gathered together in his global house-orchestra.
At the front, saxophonist Petter Wettre, with the power and virtuosity of the Berklee School of Music in his fingers, but tamed and tempered, with a much warmer tone than we have ever heard from him before. At the opposite end of the scale: the young Swedish violinist Sara Övinge, who under Sevåg’s guidance shows an impressive talent for improvisation.




Tracks:

01.- Phoenix
02.- Dido's Last Walz
03.- Battering Ram
04.- Gleam of Light
05.- Five to Three
06.- Argento
07.- Visit
08.- Fragments of the big Picture
09.- Waves of tomorrow




Personnel:


Øystein Sevåg: Grand Piano, keyboards
Petter Wettre: Saxophones
Andreas Bye: Drums
Ole Marius Melhuus: Bass, cello
Zotora Nygård: Didjeridoo
Sara Övinge: Violin
Bendik Hofseth: Saxophone
Eivind Aarset: Electric guitar
Paolo Vinaccia: Drums