Katariin Raska
Soprano sax / Estonian pipes / Jaw harp / Vocal

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Katariin Raska, born in 1986 has been involved with music already since she was 6 years old. As for the most of Estonians, her early life was full of choir music, which was in some point accompanied with alto saxophone and orchestral music. Gradually she got interested in learning more about Estonian traditional music and cultural background, which took her to get the degree in Viljandi Culture Academy, in Estonian traditional Music. Different sounds and instruments took her to explore Norwegian music at the Norwegian Academy of Music some years later. After getting a bachelor degree in Norwegian music, Katariin is currently on her way to complete the master degree in experimenting with traditional music.
Katariin has been playing and introducing Estonian music all over the Europe with different projects and groups. Her current projects are Lara (founded by Steinar Ofsdal), FolkMus (international project with musicians from Italy, Greece, Portugal, Estonia and Spain) and ÄIO.

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Jon Hjellum Brodal
Fiddle / Hardanger fiddle

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Jon Hjellum Brodal (born 1986) is raised in Oslo and also lives there at the moment. He had his first encounters with the hardanger fiddle and norwegian traditional music through fiddlers that moved to the city from different parts of the country. At the moment Jon is finishing the bachelorprogram in traditional music at the Norwegian Academy of music. In the recent years he has been working extensively in the borders beetween traditional music and other musical genres. In connection with this he won the ”Experimental class” with the trio Vrang in the national folk music competiton in 2011, and has played on many of the main nordic folk music festivals.

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Anders Hefre
Bass clarinet / Irish flute

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Anders originally comes from Bø in Telemark but works as a freelance musician and teacher in Oslo. He has a bachelor degree in Jazz-saxophone and didactics from the Norwegian academy of music in Oslo. His main instruments are tenor and soprano saxophone, but he also plays flute, clarinet and occasionally piano. His two main projects are the jazz quartets Rotlaus Ungdom and Po!, but he likes to work in a broad field of music; from pop bands and theatre productions, to folk music and improvised music. He is also an active arranger/composer. He has always been intrigued by folk music from his home area and from abroad, and likes to get inspiration from this as an improvising and composing musician.

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Christian Meaas Svendsen
Double bass

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Christian Meaas Svendsen is born and raised in Kongsberg. He holds a bachelor’s degreein jazz/improvisation from the Norwegian Academy of Music where he has continued with studies in classical music performance. His main projects include Duplex, KNYST! and Mopti, winning «Jazzintro» with the latter group in 2012. He’s also performing in (among others) folk music quartet ÄIO and together with Ayumi Tanaka and Per Oddvar Johansen in Ayumi Tanaka trio, in the contemporary music ensemble Aksiom, and with primes motor Paal Nilssen-Love in his «Large Unit». Christian is also active as a solo performer, developing and using both traditional and new techniques, often with several bows and his own body as a point of departure. He’s organizing the double bass concert series «BAX», as well as composing and arranging for most of the groups he performs with. As a musician, he is challenging and innovative, aiming at a unique sound in the meeting between the traditions of classical, contemporary, free and rhythmic music.

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Seaded / Arrangements Katariin Raska Seadete kohandused / Adjustments of the arrangements ÄIO Salvestused Sundlaugini stuudios / Recordings at Sundlaugin studio Antoïnè Nouel Salvestused Norra muusikaakadeemias / Recordings at NMH (3,5) Sindre Bergsvik Øvstegård Salvestus Bark stuudios / recording at Bark studio (1) David Aleksander Sjølie Heli töötlus ja kujundus / mixed and mastered by David Aleksander Sjølie>

FIRST ALBUM OUT!

01. Vossastril
02. Vestmata Jutud (Talks which never took place)
03. Springar Eldegard
04. Tuulepilli marss (Bagpipe's march)
05. Ammu juba (A long time ago)
06. Ilm tülist udune (Weather is foggy from the fight)
07. Gangar Eldegard
08. Mustjala vaimulik 1
09. Mustjala vaimulik 2 – Visetone H. Alexandersen
10. La danse des marionnettes
11. Torupilli Jussi lugu nr 6. (Torupilli Jussi's tune nr 6)

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