Karin Slauter

Karin Hammar nasceu na Suécia, mas a música a levou para todas as partes do mundo. Já tocou em diversos países seja em trabalhos autorais ou acompanhando nomes de peso como Kenny Werner, Nils Landgren, Ivan Lins entre outros. Na sua terra natal Karin conheceu Nelson Faria, quando ele morou por lá, e agora - num misto de férias e viagem de trabalho tão típico da vida de músico - ela veio ao Brasil e aproveitou para tomar um café com a gente e, claro, tocar algumas músicas de que ela tanto curte do nosso repertório! A música apareceu para Karin desde muito cedo. Na Suécia ela foi introduzida primeiro ao canto, depois seguiu-se o piano clássico e, por fim, voltou os olhos e os ouvidos para o trombone! De início também voltado para o clássico, mas Karin encontrou de ouvido sua veia jazzística em paralelo. Ela nos contou sobre toda essa experiência, sua entrada no Conservatório de Jazz, seu amor pela Bossa Nova, por Tom Jobim e por Elis Regina e Milton "Bituca" Nascimento e muito mais! E, como não pode deixar de ser, nos presenteou tocando com o Nelson algumas canções de arrepiar!

Kevin Puts is one of America’s most exciting and important composers. His first opera, Silent Night, with a libretto by Mark Campbell, was commissioned by Minnesota Opera. It premiered in 2011 and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. A work of profound and sweeping emotional power, it has since entered the modern operatic repertoire with remarkable speed, enjoying worldwide performances. The opera is based on Christian Carion’s screenplay for the 2005 French war film Joyeux Noël, and its fictionalised subject is the series of Christmas truces on the Western Front in 1914.

Karin Park is a Swedish-Norwegian singer-songwriter. Since her studio album "Highwire Poetry" in 2012, Karin has expanded her raw talents even further from her original electro-pop-princess persona down into darker territories. "Apocalypse Pop" delivers just that; gloriously catchy synth-pop tracks laced with deep personal lyrics.

Two years after the release of her latest album the widely critically acclaimed Imprints Karin Hammar now releases her new album Circles. Like last time, Hammar works with her group Karin Hammar Fab 4 to help her shape 8 new compositions and an interpretation of Nina Simones Four Women into her own musical landscape. The new compositions draw inspiration from such diverse encounters and places: Brazil, Morrocco, her daughter Ella, fellow musician Hildegunn Öiseth, to name a few.

This six-CD box set, released to celebrate the 80th birthday of Norwegian jazz singer Karin Krog is intriguing. It is not a straightforward chronological retrospective, nor a greatest hits collection – she has released anthologies of her work before now, most recently in 2015’s Don’t Just Sing. For this new collection she has selected favourite recordings from the last 60 years – to the Krog connoisseur this will be an fascinating compilation, as it contains rarities and previously unreleased tracks. For the newcomer it provides evidence of the incredible variety within Krog’s work in the last 60 or so years of her jazz career.