Jazzland Recordings

Tuva Halse and Arne Torvik return with Sleeping Music, the final single and title track of their upcoming duo album, to be released in February 2027. Rather than being music for sleep, the piece takes its name from an image of nature in winter, when life withdraws beneath the surface and enters a period of rest before returning in spring. Full of forward motion, the music carries a sense of youthful optimism and naivety, with a subtle melancholy.

Sleeping Music explores the space between dormancy and renewal, where winter holds nature in a state of pause while life continues beneath the surface. Rooted in Nordic jazz and folk music, the piece unfolds with a narrative character, shaped by a choral, hymn-like sensibility. Open and lyrical, it moves between warmth and melancholy, stillness and forward motion.

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Maridalen return with their full acoustic sound literally filled with electronic interference, static hiss, detuned radio, and melodic chiming synth. The new single "Fisketjuven" grooves along with a special breed of swagger, effortlessly cool and impossible to resist.

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For Solveig Slettahjell, songs have never been fixed objects. They change according to who is playing them, opening themselves differently from one performance to another. On Det er vi, her eighteenth album and the third with the Solveig Slettahjell Quartet, that process turns towards home. For the first time since Tarpan Seasons, the centre of an album is once again Slettahjell’s own material.

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