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Born at the Norges Musikkhøgskole in Oslo, the band reunites four artists who have extensively investigated contemporary art forms: Hilmar Jensson (guitar), Alessandro Sgobbio (piano, compositions), Jo Berger Myhre (bass) and Oyvind Skarbo (drums).
Inspired by a Norwegian county which covers hundred islands, islets and skerries, Hitra creates a genre-fluid journey into lost and hidden places.
Debut album Transparence has been released on February 19, 2021 under AMP Music & Records.
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Hilmar Jensson: Transparence
by Mike Jurkovic
Given that not one of the eight tracks definingTransparence, the darkly compelling debut from Norway's Hitra, runs longer than six minutes, the quartet covers a lot of ground. Like a ticket out of isolation, Transparence transports your homebound head to the grey expanse of Northern Atlantic skies. Billowing by design, their clouds of music make you feel like you're floating above rain shadows and fjords. Bonding together at Oslo's Norwegian Academy of Music, Hitra pairs Italian pianist Alessandro ...
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by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
Immaginiamo un'isola chiamata Hitra, circondata da infinite altre isole e scogliere, e percossa dai gelidi venti del Mar di Norvegia, che si insinuano fra le barche e nelle case dei pescatori, tagliano i volti dei pochi vecchi abitanti del luogo, fino a infrangersi contro i monumentali fiordi secolari. “Isola," dal latino “terra insula," a sua volta composto dalla particella “in" ("dentro," “in") e dal termine “salum" ("alto mare"), quindi letteralmente “terra in mezzo al mare," da cui “isolamento," la condizione ...
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Alessandro Sgobbio
HITRA plays imaginative original music and improvisations. A project born at the Norges Musikkhøgskole in jny: Oslo, HITRA reunites four artists who have extensively investigated contemporary art forms. The band is made up of pianist and composer Alessandro Sgobbio, Hilmar Jensson on guitar, Jo Berger Myhre on bass and Øyvind Skarbø on drums. The band has performed concerts and recorded in Norway. Transparence is a journey into imaginary, lost and hidden places. The opening track Lebtit (written by Alessandro Sgobbio) ...
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(All About Jazz - IT)
An explorationary journey into a new sonic realm. Deep. (Nite Stylez - DE)
A beautiful album which flows with imagination and improvisation. (Info135 - Argentina)
“Transparence” highlights the crystalline talent of the four European musicians. A successful effort. (Radioaktiv - IT)
. The great quality of the album lies in its diversity, while developing a coherent universe, rooted in the culture of listening and sharing, communion and poetry
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