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Einar Scheving

Einar Scheving is a drummer/composer from Iceland. He started playing jazz and rock music professionally at the age of fifteen and soon became one of the country's foremost drummers. Einar has been gaining considerable attention for his compositional vision and is a three-time winner of the Icelandic Music Awards, including two for Best Album of the Year: Cycles in 2008 and Land Mins Fodur (The Land of My Father) in 2012. Both albums have received rave reviews and sold remarkably well. Einar is a mainstay on the Icelandic music scene, playing and recording with many of the country’s foremost artists.

Awards

Three-time winner of the Icelandic Music Awards: Best Jazz Composition, 2007 for "Lif" Best Jazz Album, 2008 for "Cycles" Special Jury Price, 2012. (Best Album, Open Category) for "Land Mins Fodur (The Land of My Father)"


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Album Review

Anders Lønne Grønseth & Multiverse: Inner View

Read "Inner View" reviewed by Chris May


Since George Russell published his influential Lydian Chromatic Concept Of Tonal Organization in 1953, other jazz musicians have attempted to reforge the theoretical construct of their music--with varying degrees of success and including some egregiously posturing examples of b.s. which bring to mind Hans Christian Andersen's salutary story The Emperor's New Clothes. One twenty-first century venture which authentically hits the mark is Israeli-born, New York-based tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur's Middle Path, his deft recalibration of microtonal Indian ...

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Einar Scheving: Land Mins Fodur

Read "Einar Scheving: Land Mins Fodur" reviewed by Alex Franquelli


It is jazz, all right. But it is that kind of jazz that manages to flow in a natural, effortless way. The rigid canons of composition are refined by a clever approach to folk music, which in Land Míns Föður (The Land of My Father) ceases to be a mere echo in an otherwise contemporary context to become the lens through which relatively recent influences are filtered and acknowledged. Drummer Einar Scheving is one of the most prolific and praised ...

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Land Mins Fodur (The Land of My Father), 2011: “one of the most beautiful albums released in the Nordic countries in modern times. An album that captures Iceland's soul..." ***** Jan Gradvall, Dagens Industri, Sweden

Cycles, 2007: "This is pure art, in which one has the feeling of disappearing into a dream world where only beauty exists.” ***** Vernhardur Linnet (Iceland’s most notable jazz critic).

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Inner View

NXN Recordings
2023

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Cycles

Self Produced
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Sveitin

From: Cycles
By Einar Scheving

Nu Vil Eg Enn I Nafni Thinu

From: Land Mins Fodur (The Land of My...
By Einar Scheving

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