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Piano Transformed

by Kjetil Husebø

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Reflection 04:42
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Circle 04:36
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Responsive 03:50
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Lust 06:20

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On the new album Piano Transformed (2017) Kjetil Huseboe returns with his musical venture of combining acoustic and electronic elements. This time Kjetil explores another musical territory than his last album Steps (2015), which was an all-acoustic piano album. In contrast, the music on Piano Transformed is composed and performed with an intense musical symbiosis of acoustic grand piano and live sampling / electronics. Hence, Kjetil creates an instrument in which acoustics and technology is closely unified.

As a pianist and performer of electronic music, Kjetil Huseboe has worked continuously to perfect the musical unification of the grand piano and live sampling/ live electronics. Using music technology both as a complete instrument and a creative tool he has developed an innovative instrument that he uses to obtain an intimate interaction between the piano and the electronics.

The live sampling and the live electronics does not only use the grand piano as a source of sound, but it is applied as a controller in real time, which implies either that the live sampling is done simultaneously as Kjetil plays on the grand piano or it occurs as sound fragments are recorded and subsequently transformed.

The sound recorded from the grand piano and Kjetil ́s playing are sampled in a variety of ways using different tools and creative methods. As a result, the extremely multifaceted sound derived from the grand piano are further processed into new sonic and rhythmic dimensions, hence the name Piano Transformed.

The music on this album is full of contrasts. It alternates between being calm, melodic, expressive, rhythmic, playful, abstract, fluid, chaotic, dark, sonorous and contemplative. The music is on the borderline between jazz, contemporary, ambient and classical.

On Kjetils former piano album - Contradictions (2012) and Sources (2013) - he combined piano with live sampling and live electronics on several of the tracks, but it is first on the album Piano Transformed that this is done consistently on all tracks and without compromise. Piano Transformed is Huseboe ́s fourth piano album in the discography of seven albums.

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released March 17, 2017

The album is produced by Kjetil Huseboe and recorded in Propeller Music Division, Oslo. The album is mixed and co-produced by Reidar Skaar 7th Etage, Oslo. Reidar Skaar has previously worked with such artists as Nils Petter Molvaer, Bendik Hofseth, Eivind Aarset, Reiersrud, Arild Andersen, Karl Seglem, etc. The album is mastered by Helge Sten in Audio Virus Lab, Oslo. Lucas Dietrich in Berlin has designed the cover.

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Kjetil Husebø Oslo, Norway

Kjetil Husebø is a Norwegian composer, producer, keyboard player and a classically trained piano player with a background from such varied musical landscapes as jazz, improvisation, electronica, ambient, contemporary, house, pop, crossover and folk music. ... more

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