release date: 26.09.2025 on Grappa
Celebrating 15 years together, Hanna Paulsberg Concept releases their fifth album, “Himmel over Hav” on Grappa today. For the first time, the quartet teams up with vocalist Elin Rosseland, creating a musical landscape where lyrical melodies, powerful grooves, and improvisational freedom seamlessly intertwine.
If you haven’t come across the Portuguese Clean Feed label yet, that only means that you are not the fan of the creative and improvised music enough, … but it is never too late in life to fall in love, isn’t it? Kickstart your new year by embracing the first wave of Clean Feed releases. Once again, THEY take pride in highlighting a diverse array of talents from several corners of the world. Once you get hooked you will always be back, which is what I wish you all during this upcoming year, and all those coming after ,too.
Ever since Jan Garbarek put Norwegian jazz on the map in the late 1980s, and even more so after the international success of his rigorously ascetic Officium in 1994, the music has acquired a reputation for being, if not entirely lacking in passion, then for being, at least, emotionally detached. More recently, with the emergence of a new generation of Norwegian musicians aligned with the electronica movement, the country’s jazz has, justly or unjustly, acquired a parallel reputation for being obsessed with technology and overly self-referential.
