Tirill

Happy New Year 2012!

tirill — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:04:54 +0000

2011 kind of rushed away for me with the preparations and releases of the three albums. I must admit that there have been some challenges (with deadlines and so), but also much fun! I am very impatient to get ahead with the next one! But wait! There is one more in line before that. The Autumn Whispers’ debut record will be out on February 2012. We are very excited about it, after many months of recording and preparing. Feel free to have listen at Autumn Whispers MySpace. I will keep you posted about the progression of this release, as well as other things I want to share with you in the year to come!

I wish it will be a happy one, with inspiration, growth and joy – for all of you!

Season’s Greetings!

tirill — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:08:17 +0000

I know this is not the best production – and some of you have heard this arrangement before. But I love this old tune, and I think the recording still has a kind of charm to it. So here it is, a version of the 16th century traditional tune from England; Autumn Comes. A winter solstice gift from me to you.

Platemesse

tirill — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:23:39 +0000

Saturday 10th of December (soon, oh soon) I will show up together with Oslo Rockantikvariat (the most charming old record shop in Oslo), at their stand at NORGES CD- OG PLATEMESSE. I will be signing vinyls and cd’s from 10 am to 4 pm. There will be a nice “førjuls” – discount on the albums this day, which will definitely pay back the 40 kroner entrance fee. AND the hall will be filled with rare and beautiful vinyl and cds for you to explore.

Wanna hold it in your hands?

tirill — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:06:41 +0000

To give you a feeling of how the cover artworks look like (I am not huge fan of downloading digital albums myself; I still prefer the physical ones!) The albums are now available at Big Dipper (Torggata Platebar) and Oslo Rockantikvariat – for those of you who live in Oslo and prefer to shop from a real record store. The newest cd is also available for sale at Asker Bibliotek.

Our WEBSHOP is still the solution for internet purchases.

Day of the release..

tirill — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:18:22 +0000

..is here! And we want to celebrate it with this new video clip. The images are from Coole Park and other places relevant to Yeats’ life and work. The song is based upon the poem Before the World was Made, from The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933).

The web shop is now open for safe and easy purchase of the physical albums! For digital download, Amazon is the first one being on schedule!

We hope that you will enjoy the music!

Countdown

tirill — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:19:27 +0000

Only 5 days left till the 20th! And what will happen then? Let’s reveal some if it: There will be no huge release party that day, but a brand new video clip will be published, and the web shop will be open for orders. For those of you who live in Norway, I will have to remind you that because of Norwegian music distribution politics, this album will not be for sale in the ordinary record shops. But I will keep you updated on events where you can come, and where the cds and vinyls will be sold. And of course, you can buy them safely on the webshop anytime. The albums will be available for download from over 130 digital music stores.

Presentation of the releases:

Tales from Tranquil August Gardens

Nine and Fifty Swans

Autumn releases

tirill — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:04:51 +0000

October is not only one of the most beautiful months, it is also a great time to release albums! At least it is for us hyperboreans, that need some good music to warm our souls with as the winter sets in. And here are two albums I would recommend for that particular use: Finn Coren’s “Mitt hjerte – dikt av Jens Bjørneboe” and White Willow’s Terminal Twillight. The albums are being released these days.

Tokso

tirill — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:36:14 +0000

means bow in Greek, and is the name of the string quartet I had the pleasure of listening to a few days ago. The quartet consists of musicians from France, Greece and Norway, playing the traditional instruments nykkelharpe, cello, Cretan lyra and Hardanger fiddle. Together they create an intercultural, yet impressively authentic sound of folk music.

The songs are composed and arranged by the members of the group, and each song has its recognizable signature from the nationality of the particular songwriter. The band is touring frequently in Europe. If they pop up in your neighborhood, you wouldn’t want to miss them! Tokso

tirill — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:48:07 +0000

I love baroque music

tirill — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:27:00 +0000

And this summer I had the pleasure of experiencing two very beautiful baroque performances. The first one was Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen”, a libretto written in 1692 based upon W. Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. It was performed in the most wonderful garden theater at Ramme Gård in Hvitsten. The scenery changed place more than once, and the audience was guided and lured around by a flock of dancing fairies to the appropriate stages. And then there were music! And how beautiful was the sound of original baroque instruments outdoors, in combination with the spacy, elvish sound landscape coming from different amplifiers in the garden. This was certainly taking place on a midsummer night, with the warm breeze blowing through the trees, mixing into the sounds of the play, under a quite light evening sky that you only see at this time of the year. But whether it was all a dream or not, I am still not quite sure.

The second experience was in the beautiful baroque church of Sts. Peter and Paul in the city of Krakow. I don’t know if this baroque architecture was somehow made in order to reflect the sounds of that time, but I have never heard the acoustics of baroque instruments being reflected so well before. It gave a very soft, but still clear sound. Like a mix of velvet and diamonds.