#Anja Lauvdal

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Spells by Jenny Hval, opening track of The Long Sleep EP - Director: Constance Tenvik

[thoregil]

2024-10-23 I Like to Sleep & Trondheim Jazzorkester: 'Pieces of Scattered Dreams' - Dokkhuset

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"Paper Fox" by Mari Kvien Brunvoll, Stein Urheim, Moskus, Anja Lauvdal, Hans Hulbækmo, Fredrik Luhr Dietrichson https://ift.tt/7R85AN0

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Just wanted to say thank you for recommending that ayami Suzuki album a while back. I love it. It has become a part of my life and it’s all thanks to you

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[zef-zef]

A fresh mix of female electronic / experimental artists.

Electric Venus - #3 Golden Particle Broadcast (Violet Voltage, 2025)

Listen on Soundcloud

TrackList

Fatima Al Qadiri - Gumar (Moon) Alexandra Spence - Blue Waves Yeong Die - Keeling Curve Anne Müller - Leah And Bex Sleep Agathe Max & Natalia Beylis - She Should Be Queen of All the Flowers Anne Garner - Golden Arrow Félicia Atkinson - Image Langage Anja Lauvdal - A Swim Kayla Painter - Broadcast From the Collapse Bianca Scout - Chorus Evita Manji - Spandrel? Jlin - First Overture (Spiritual Atom) Miki Yui - Dancing (Swamp) Jana Irmert - Particles

Cover Art by: thezenofbrokenbones

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Listen/purchase: Farewell to Faraway Friends Vol 1 & 2 by Anja Lauvdal

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list of concerts i went to

2025

Tashi Wada + Julia Holter (gnration) com berni e ME

2024

MIKE (gnration) com berni e dudu

oqbqbo (antimuseu, CIAJG) com berni e inês

Croatian Amor (antimuseu, CIAJG) com amigos

Meth Math (lovers & lollypops) com amigos

Eartheater (primavera sound) com amigos

Mitski (primavera sound) "

Ana Frango Elétrico (primavera sound)

Anastasia Coope (mucho flow) com berni, inês e ME

Florence Sinclair (mucho flow) "

Still House Plantas (mucho flow) "

Mabe Fratti (mucho flow) "

Angry Blackmen (mucho flow) "

Snow Strippers (mucho flow) "

2023

DakhaBrakha (hard club) com lauro

Ornatos Violeta com berni e ivy

Ethel Cain (meo kalorama) com bia, joa e luís

Florence + The Machine (meo kalorama) com bia

Arca (meo kalorama) "

Shygirl (meo kalorama) com bia, joa & luís

Belle and Sebastian (meo kalorama) com bia

Eiko Ishibashi (semibreve) com berni

Anja Lauvdal (semibreve) "

Tukijo Noriko + Joji Koyama (semibreve) "

Emeralds (semibreve) "

Kali Malone (selibreve) "

Weyes Blood (hard club) com cat

2019

Croatian Amor (mucho flow, 2018)

Heavy Lungs (mucho flow, 2018)

Iceage (mucho flow, 2018)

2018

Angel Olsen (CCVF, 2018) com o meu pai

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (nps, 2018)

Nakama (Bar Irreal)

2017

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (genebra, 2017)

2016

Ben Frost (gnration, 2016) com afonso

Them Flying Monkeys (nos alive, 2016) w/ ivy, tó & alex

Little Scream (nos alive, 2016) com ivy, tó e alex

Calexico (nos alive, 2016) com ivy, tó e alex

José Gonzalez (nos alive, 2016) com ivy, tó e alex

PAUS (nos alive, 2016) com ivy, tó e alex

Four Tet (nos alive, 2016) com ivy, tó e alex

Grimes (nos alive, 2016) com ivy, tó e alex

2015

Princess Chelsea (rádio bar, 2015) com ivy, maria e príncipe

2014

PAUS (casa da música, 2014) com afonso e ivy

Linda Maritini (casa da música, 2014) com afonso e ivy

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Tim Hecker - Radio Amor Kyle Bobby Dunn - Music for Medication INTERCOURSE - Halo Castration Institute A Novelist - Folie

Dan Terminus - Automated Refrains A Constant Knowledge of Death - Vol. III, C: Everything Was Possible and Nothing Was True A Constant Knowledge of Death - Vol. III, D: Impermanence Rrose - Please Touch

Rototypical - Volume I: The Tactician Anja Lauvdal - Farewell to Faraway Friends (Wurlitzer Improvisations 2021-23) Astrobrite - Pinkshinyultrablast Persefone - Metanoia

Enterprise Earth - Death: An Anthology

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CLOSING_THE_NIGHT WITH THEORIES FAVORITE 2022 ALBUMS | 1

Aldous Harding - Warm Chris

Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

Anja Lauvdal - From a Story Now Lost

Ben Woods - Dispeller

Kiwi Jr.  - Chopper

[dustedmagazine]

Anja Lauvdal — From a Story Now Lost (Smalltown Supersound)

Photo by Anne Valeur

From a Story Now Lost by Anja Lauvdal

Norwegian pianist and composer Anja Lauvdal comes from a jazz background which informs the oblique approach on her debut album From A Story Now Lost. Working with producer Laurel Halo, she creates a series of atmospheric pieces steeped in classical and ambient influences full of bewitching details that counterpoint the naturalism of Lauvdal’s piano. A palimpsest of memory and experience in which fragments emerge and linger briefly to be subsumed as perspectives shift. The image comes to mind of an archaeologist digging through jumbled, partly indecipherable histories, intuiting a connective narrative.

Lauvdal was inspired in part by her rediscovery of pianist and composer Agathe Backer Grøndahl, a friend and contemporary of Edvard Grieg, who has been called Norway’s first impressionist. Interestingly the track “Fantastie for Agathe Backer Grøndahl” is the least overtly pianistic piece here. A slightly off-kilter keyboard motif plays over woozy counterpoint before slowly drowning in a quicksand of hiss and crackle as if to connect the composer to the contemporary dark ambience of Supersilent and Helge Stern. By contrast, the romantic melancholy of “Clara” is a relatively unadorned tribute to Clara Schumann whose talent as an interpreter, improviser and composer has been long overshadowed by her personal history. Elsewhere there are reflections on effects of climate change on the Arctic Circle which are directly affecting Norway. “Sukkertare” references the loss of up to 80% of the sea kelp beds off the country’s west coast. At heart of the track is the submerged swaying of a club beat struggling to breathe in a de-oxygenated miasma. On “Xerxesdrops” cellos and basses augment Lauvdal’s contemplative improvisation set against the distant howl of Arctic winds that fail to diminish the warmth of the piano. “A Swim” wobbles and swooshes like an early Pole track charting the rhythm of breath and blood as laps through time. 

Halo’s sympathetic production highlights Lauvdal’s improvisational skill and conceptual sophistication as she creates evocative connections between past erasures and present obliviousness, absorbing flickers of light and refracting them as sparkling mosaics of sound. From A Story Now Lost seeks not to provide a clear narrative but to demonstrate the ways that curiosity, acknowledgement and constant questioning keeps history alive and points the way forward.  

Andrew Forell

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Anja Lauvdal and Joakim Heibø - All My Clothes - another piano/drums duo LP (Smalltown Supersound)

This is the first release in a series of albums on Smalltown Supersound with Norwegian freeform pianist Anja Lauvdal. On All My Clothes Lauvdal teamed up with her friend, the reclusive and now retired (?) Norwegian drummer Joakim Heibø for a session in the great tradition of piano and drums at Flerbruket Studios at Hemnes outside of Oslo. The result is 4 untitled tracks and 42 minutes of spontaneous compositions and melancholic ecstacy -  and one of the strongest statements in the label's 20+ years history of releasing free-music.

Fun fact: Anja Lauvdal is from the small town Flekkefjord in the south of Norway where Smalltown Supersound were founded - and from the age of 12 she was following the label's free jazz output - so it is really something of a full circle when she now debuts on Smalltown Supersound with a free jazz album.

Anja Lauvdal (born 1987) has collaborated with Jenny Hval (both live and on records), Hamid Drake, William Parker as well as members of The Necks. This is the first release under her own name. Recently Lauvdal compiled a double album of Norwegian improvised music titled Frijazz mot rasisme (Free Jazz against Racism). She also runs Oslo’s festival for improvised music All Ears that takes place at the Munch Museum in Oslo.

[thoregil]

2024-07-15 Trondheim Jazzorkester & I Like to Sleep: 'Pieces of Scattered Dreams' - Teatret Vårt, Moldejazz

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Laura Jurd - Companion Species Composed by Anja Lauvdal & Heida K. Johannesdottir Album: Stepping Back, Jumping In (Edition Records, 2019) Laura Jurd : trumpet Raphael Clarkson : trombone Martin Lee Thomson : euphonium Soosan Lolavar : santoor (Persian dulcimer) Rob Luft : banjo The Ligeti Quartet : string quartet Elliot Galvin : piano Anja Lauvdal : synth, electronics Conor Chaplin : double bass Corrie Dick & Lizy Exell: drums

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Noods Radio Bristol, 23rd November 2022

Weather Report - Orange Lady [Columbia] Steve Tibbetts - Wish [ECM] Rain Tree Crow - Red Earth [Virgin] David Sylvian - A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce [Virgin] Marillyin Crispell, Gary Peacock & Paul Motian - Voice From The Past [ECM] Terje Rypdal - Will [ECM] Brainticket - Cosmic Wind [Cleopatra] The Soft Pink Truth - Joybreath [Thrill Jockey] Slowdive - J's Heaven [Creation] Anja Lauvdal - Xerxes Drops [Smalltown Supersound] Shuggie Otis - Island Letter [Epic]

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Anja Lauvdal @  Oslo Jazz Festival, Norway, 15. August 2016

source: wikimedia photo: Tore Sætre

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HDO 473: Møster, Hilde Marie Holsen, Skadedyr, Frode Haltli, Moskus (Especial Hubro) [Podcast]

HDO 473: Møster, Hilde Marie Holsen, Skadedyr, Frode Haltli, Moskus (Especial Hubro) [Podcast]

Por Pachi Tapiz.

El sello noruego Hubro sigue apostando por propuestas de lo más variado dentro de su catálogo. Sus propuestas transitan por terrenos del folk, el rock, la improvisación libre o el jazz, pasadas siempre por el particular tamiz del sello.

En la entrega 473 de HDO suenan cinco grabaciones. que recorren esos y otros terrenos; States Of Mindsde Møster con Kjetil Møster, Hans Magnus…