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Neo-Classical Electronica Artist Gunnar Spardel finds comfort in music, as a way to contemplate life and death. In his introspective work, Spardel's atmospheric music draws from nature and life itself, most recently portrayed in his upcoming album "The Fade to Afterlife".

Norwegian pianist Jan Gunnar Hoff has released several albums in the recent years performing original compositions; solo as on LIVING and with his FLY NORTH Quartet. This time Hoff delivers a concept album performing 15 songs and Christmas carols, both Norwegian standards and international classics. "Stille lys" (Quiet Light) is Jan Gunnar Hoff's commission for Nordnorsk Lederutvikling, a group of Northern Trainees aiming to add an artistic and musical profile to their concept with an atmosphere of tranquility and proximity. Seeking inspiration in the North and at Ingmar Bergman Estate by the Baltic Sea, Hoff continues his solo journey, once again recorded by multi-Grammy nominated Morten Lindberg and 2L.

"Stories" is Jan Gunnar Hoff’s third solo piano album on the 2L label and is a sequel to his critically acclaimed album "Living" from 2013. On the new release Hoff stretches his creative abilities, presenting contrasting compositions and improvisations, in a distinctly personal mixture. Some of the pieces are meditative and expressive, while others have a strong rhythmic vibe. Stories also displays Hoff as an arranger, presenting versions of classics like “God Only Knows” and the traditional Swedish folk song “Värmlandsvisan”.

In 2019 the Swedish organist and composer Gunnar Idenstam was commissioned to provide the music to a film, The Vegan Toothbrush, by the Norwegian film-maker Trygve Luktvasslimo, which takes seriously the issue of climate change itself but satirises the quasi-religious intensity of climate activists. Idenstam is one of the few remaining organists who maintain the centuries-old tradition of improvisation at the console, and his extemporisations for the film, all of which are concerned with water, developed into a kind of powerfully atmospheric sea symphony.

Welcome to our world of modern folk music from Stockholm, Sweden! This particular constellation, with Lisa Rydberg on violin, Jonas Sjöblom on percussion and vocals, and myself – Gunnar Idenstam – on harmonium and keyboard, for a few years in the early 2000s under the name plan3. During that time, we performed all over Sweden at venues ranging from churches to dance halls and pubs.

Espen Eriksen (piano) and Gunnar Halle (trumpet) have a full 14 years of experience as a duo. On Sangboka, Eriksen and Halle offer both songs from the "Songbook" (Mads Berg's school songbook), and hymns from the hymnbook.

Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei come close enough to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles. If you have ever wondered what 'fusion' sounds like musically…then wonder no more. It is laid out, immaculately, in this most special album. We hear fusion in all its glory, the crossover between jazz, funk and rock performed with perfect precision. This is achieved not only with excellence of composition and inexorable instrumental virtuosity, but also by choice of studio, production and mastering techniques.

HOME can be seen both as an homage to and as a statement of belonging to northern Norway, with its naked landscape and its Arctic location.

Gunnar Halle, Jeppe Kjellberg and Steinar Nickelsen made an album together in 2007 and called it Echidna. ILK Music are the people ressponsible for making this a reality for all of humanity.