#Thea Ellingsen Grant

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2024-05-09 Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband - Jazzfest, Verkstedhallen

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SKE - Insolubilia - prog rock with ALL the trappings; “luxury prog” if you will

SKE is the "solo" project of Paolo "SKE" Botta, italian keyboards player who also plays in many bands, most notably Yugen and Not a Good Sign. In 2011 the debut album "1000 Autunni" was released on AltrOck/Fading Records, and features mostly Yugen musicians. The style can be described as 70s Symphonic Prog meets Avant/RIO and Canterbury. The album received great critical acclaim and went quickly out of print, to be eventually reprinted in 2018 as "1001 Autunni", with an additional live CD.

The new studio album "Insolubilia" is still produced by Marcello Marinone. It is a dense and heavily layered album, inspired by brain teasers and paradoxes. Despite this, it has a distinctive melodic approach that should help the listener to avoid “getting lost” into the sonic labyrinth. With echoes by bands such as Gentle Giant, Änglagård, Universe Zero or JLF Ledesma among others, the album main opus “Insolubilia” is a 5 part variation of several recurring themes, that benefits of a very extensive musical palette, provided by 25 musicians. Paolo Botta (Not a Good Sign, Yugen) - Keyboards, Composition Fabio Pignatelli (Goblin) - Bass Luca Calabrese (Isildurs Bane) - Pocket Trumpet Lars Fredrik Frøislie (Wobbler) - Harpsichord Keith Macksoud (Present) - Bass Tommaso Leddi (Stormy Six) - Mandolin Nicolas Nikolopoulos (Ciccada) - Flute Evangelia Kozoni (Ciccada) - Voice Vitaly Appow (Rational Diet, Five Storey Ensamble) - Bassoon Simen Ådnøy Ellingsen (Shamblemaths) - Saxophones Alessandro Cassani (Not a Good Sign) - Bass Martino Malacrida (Not a Good Sign) - Drums Francesco Zago (Yugen) - Guitars Maurizio Fasoli (Yugen) - Grand Piano Valerio Cipollone (Yugen) - Clarinets Elia Leon Mariani (Yugen) - Violin Jacopo Costa (Loomings, Yugen) - Vibraphone/Marimba/Xylophone/Glockenspiel/Cymbalum Maria Denami (Loomings) - Voice Massimo Giuntoli (Hobo) - Harmonium Pierre Wawrzyniak (Camembert, Oiapok) - Bass Mélanie Gerber (Camembert, Oiapok) - Voice Guillaume Gravelin (Camembert, Oiapok) - Harp Pietro Bertoni (FEM) - Trombone/Euphonium Thea Ellingsen Grant (Juno) - Voice Tiziana Azzone (Il Giardino delle Muse) - Theorbo

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2024-05-02 Thea Grant 'Water and Dreams' - PØKK, Dokkhuset

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Juno er et studentband fra jazzlinja her i Trondheim som, ifølge sin egen programerklæring “utforsker grenseområdet mellom fri og arrangert musikk”. Ikke så veldig original programerklæring til jazzband å være kanskje, men viktigere er det at musikken er bra og samspillet strålende.

Thea Ellingsen Grant, vokal Malin Dahl Ødegård, vokal Mona Krogstad, tenorsaxofon Georgia Wartel Collins, kontrabass Ingvald Vassbø, trommer

  2018-04-13 1. Juno – Dokkhuset Juno er et studentband fra jazzlinja her i Trondheim som, ifølge sin egen programerklæring "utforsker grenseområdet mellom fri og arrangert musikk".