Sverre Gjorvad - Time To Illuminate Earth (CD)

Release Date: 01/14/22

Catchy jazz from the top of the world in Northern Norway. Drummer Sverre Gjørvad with his third release in a series that will end up a tetralogy.

Transformation is the core of Sverre Gjørvad´s compositions. The nature that is transformed through sound, sound that is transformed by reconstruction of time and melody, melody that transforms into stories.
There is a highly cinematic approach to compositions all through the three elemental albums that Gjørvad has created in the past three years. With him a constant trio: Herborg Rundberg, piano; Kristian Svalestad Olstad, guitar; and Dag Okstad, bass. All engaged in this work with nature and storytelling in their own unique, and boundary breaking way.
On this particular album there is also a contribution from Embrik Snerte, bassoon on two of the songs. The woodwind brings both an eeriness and a lightness to the stories that are told.
And maybe somewhat of a slavic sentimentality. But then again, that is in the ear of this listener.
As is much of the experience with Sverre Gjørvad´s compositions - what you bring along as a listener matters profoundly.
It inspires the power of your own imagination.

Besides the original music, the album also include Andy Partridges song 'All of a Sudden (it's too late), first recorded by XTC on their album 'English Settlement', released in 1982.

His highly acclaimed debut on Losen Records, 'Voi River' was released in 2019.
His next album on Losen Records, 'Elegy of Skies', came the following year, also highly acclaimed by an even wider spectrum of critics.
Sverre Gjørvad lives with his family in Hammerfest, northern Norway, were he composes, plays music and works as a producer for the Arctic Cultural Centre.
He is still on the project he started with his 2019-album 'Voi River', composing music reflecting his whereabouts in the high north of Norway.
Although, this time the focus is 'The World, seen from the top of it'
He plans releasing a fourth jazz album from Northern Norway in 2022. This will end what has developed to be an 'element-tetralogy'.