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Erik Honoré - New Album on Punkt Editions - Temporary Empire
Today, Erik Honoré’s Temporary Empire is out on Punkt Editions
The album captures the unedited performance at Punkt 2025 by Erik Honoré, Eivind Lønning and Mark Wastell. Produced and mixed by Erik, recorded by Geir Østensjø, mastered by Stephan Mathieu, design by Nina Birkeland. CD and Bandcamp site feature full texts.
The project began with the story of fifteen ships trapped in the Suez Canal after the Six-Day War in 1967, stranded for more than eight years. Cut off from the world, crews formed a strange floating community sustained by care, improvisation and endurance rather than conquest or power. One of the caretakers of the stranded ships was Erik’s father. That personal connection became the emotional core of the piece: memory, maintenance, acts of keeping things — and names — intact.
LILJA - New Single - Golden Hour
Golden Hour is the final chapter from LILJA’s album Muna, an existential record that moves through the different phases of life.
“It was by far the hardest song to write,” says LILJA. “But when it finally came, it came all at once.”
In Golden Hour, she approaches the inevitable with open eyes.
“There’s a reason why awareness of death is central in both Buddhism and Stoicism. Giving impermanence a place can help us turn our attention to what matters most—while we’re still alive.”
The song’s closing line, “The golden hour shimmering,” is mirrored in the composition: an off kilter string tapestry by Oddrun Lilja, Anders Røine, and Jo Skaansar, together with Norbakken’s percussion, forms the foundation for Beady Belle’s soulful vocals and Bugge Wesseltoft’s organ.
Muna will be celebrated with a release concert at Kulturkirken Jakob during the Oslo Jazz Festival on August 12. It promises to be an atmospheric concert not to be missed.
Eivind Aarset - New Album - Strange Hands
Eivind Aarset’s new album "Strange Hands" finds his long-running quartet in restless, luminous form. Joined by violinist Sara Övinge and Mira Thiruchelvam on pullankulal, with Bjarne Stensli capturing and sculpting the sound, Aarset, Audun Erlien, Wetle Holte and Erland Dahlen expand their shared vocabulary into something at once leaner and more unpredictable. The music feels closer to the bone: fewer obvious adornments, more direct impact, yet still bathed in the shifting light and shadow that have made Aarset’s records so uncannily cinematic.
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