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Erik Honore
Erik has composed music for theatre, including the Norwegian National Theatre, and film. He has written three novels published by Gyldendal, Norway’s largest publishing house.
Erik Honoré has received one Norwegian "Grammy” for Album of the Year (Velvet Belly: "Lucia") and one nomination, and was nominated for the Southern Norway Literary Prize for his debut novel "Orakelveggen". Together with Jan Bang and Arve Henriksen, he won the award for Best Movie Soundtrack of the Year 2009 at the Kosmorama International Film Festival in Trondheim.
Honoré is also co-artistic director of the Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, voted "Most innovative festival of the year" by the BBC Music Magazine. Previous artists at the festival include Brian Eno, John Paul Jones, Fennesz, Jon Hassell, and the elite of Norwegian electronic/modern jazz artists.
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Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang: Snow Catches on her Eyelashes
by John Eyles
Although they had been collaborating since the early 90s, the first recording on which the Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset and American-born, Norway-resident Jan Bang appeared together was Bang's Pop Killer (Virgin, 1998). In the years since, Aarset and Bang have collaborated on many more albums, but this is the first to credit them as a duo. Particular high spots in their collaborations have included Bang's album on David Sylvian's label ...and Poppies from Kandahar (Samishadsound, 2010), Aarset's Dream Logic (ECM, ...
read morePunkt Festival 2015
by Henning Bolte
Punkt Festival Kristiansand, Norway September, 3-5, 2015 Kristiansand, home of the Annual Punkt Festival for the past decade, is a municipality situated on the southernmost point of Norway on the Skagerrak strait. It has a population of 86,000 (the greater urban area 155,000) and is the county capital of Vest-Agder. Crystallization of new concepts and development often take place and are given a push from the periphery, and Punkt is a good and ...
read moreErik Honoré: Heliographs
by John Eyles
Erik Honoré has such an impressive curriculum vitae that it is difficult to know where to begin... In association with his frequent collaborator Jan Bang, since 2005, he has been responsible for the annual ground-breaking Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, where all concerts are remixed live. Over the years, that feature of the festival has attracted such impressive names as Laurie Anderson, Gavin Bryars, Brian Eno, Jon Hassell and David Sylvian. As well as such an international cast, Honoré has been ...
read moreErik Honore: Heliographs
by John Kelman
If patience is a virtue, then Erik Honoré is, indeed, one virtuous man. Over the past few decades he's built a busy career as a novelist and record producer in his home country of Norway, and has come to increasing international attention as co-Artistic Director of the Punkt Live Remix festival--that globe-trotting festival with a philosophy that is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary in its hometown of Kristiansand in September, 2014. He's also become a more active participant on ...
read moreErik Honore: Small Sonic Postcards
by Nenad Georgievski
Compared to the rest of Europe, Norway's thriving music scene--be it jazz, pop, electronic or in-between genres--seems to be the most varied. Since1996/97, with the release of a number of seminal recordings including trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær's Khmer (ECM, 1997), keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft's New Conception of Jazz (Jazzland, 1996) and noise improv quartet Supersilent's triple-disc debut, 1-3 (Rune Grammofon, 1997), different strands from that scene joined forces and a new kind of music emerged, one that has not shied away ...
read moreErik Honore and Greta Aagre: Year of the Bullet
by Nenad Georgievski
Impressive in its reach and warmth, the music of keyboardist/sampler/lyricist Erik Honoré and vocalist Greta Aagre on Year of the Bullet feels like a perfect brushstroke of sound calligraphy, full of cinematic passages that are designed to evoke a broad emotional spectrum. This is the duo's third release and first signed under their names--previously, they were known as Elsewhere. Years of the Bullet is an Italian expression describing the hard '70s, when Italy was plagued by political ...
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Erik Honore
Location: Oslo
Instrument: Samples / effects
Born: December 11, 1966
