A short clip popped up on utube shortly after our Oslo appearance:

Pics from the Oslo gig Sat, April 17. Posted by arne @ Arnes bildeblogg.

Just as the award-winning movie NORD has sold more than 50.000 tickets in Germany alone, it continues to amuse anti-depressed snow-mobile-driving movie-nerds around the world. I'm proud to finally announce that the original movie score finally is for sale on iTunes Music Store.. and its almost for free! Go fetch: NORD on iTunes Music Store

..looking forward to wrap up our Norwegian tour with GammalGrass at Vossajazz tonight. Spending most of January through March at home writing music for my new band LIARBIRD has been a great experience. LIARBIRD premieres at Jazzfest on May 12 in Trondheim, in addition to a to-be-announced date in July!

Had a thrill mixing the EKSPERIMENTET Score at Filmbyen, super high-tech surround mixing studio with great tasting coffee. Premieres Sep 9 in Denmark. Also, the score for award-winning movie NORD (NORTH / Rune D. Langlo) is on its way to iTunes, available for download within a few days..!

After Easter, its touring time again. The Trio heads for a week in western Norway along with a date in Oslo from Apr 6 through 17. Here are the venues:

Apr 06: Onkel & Vennen hans, Kristiansund
Apr 07 Rokken, Volda
Apr 08 Storyville Jazz Club, Molde
Apr 09 Grillen, Bø (Telemark)
Apr 10 To Søstre, Kongsvinger
Apr 17 Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo

..stay tuned for more dates to come: follow me on Twitter.

FOLK shows up no. 8 on NPR/WDUQ's Top-10 list of best releases in 2009. On 1. to 3. place is Vijay Iyer's Historicity, Ravi Coltrane's Blending Times and Branford Marsalis' Metamorphosen. Yay!

The Year In Jazz, From WDUQ : NPR

So - Christmas is close, and I'm currently finishing the recording sessions for the Danish movie "Eksperimentet". Have had some great musicians to help me out in the studio the past 3 days..

Also, today the trio was granted financial support from the Arts Council of Norway for 2010 and 2011, which basically means we'll increase the amount of dates abroad, primarily Europe, but also hopefully the US in the close future. Stay tuned for more dates to come in a short while.

Merry Christmas!