Didymoi Dreams

Hot on the heels of her much applauded collaboration with Humcrush last year, here is one of the leading vocal improvisers in the world in a fantastic display of telepatic music making at an extremely high level with one of the leading guitar experimentalists currently on the scene. The result is a beautiful and unique soundworld captured live during a much spoken about concert at the Nattjazz festival in Bergen, Norway. Add the evocative titles and the excellent sleeve from Kim Hiorthøy and we have the kind of package that reminds us why the physical product is the superior way to present an album. Sidsel Endresen worked as a singer and co-writer in Jon Eberson Group from 1981-87, releasing five albums and winning two Norwegian Grammys . Before you ask, yes it´s the very same Jon Eberson playing on the El Doom album released earlier this year. In 1990 and 1994 she recorded two solo albums for ECM. The 90s also saw a very fruitful collaboration with Bugge Wesseltoft, resulting in three albums and two more Grammys . Since 2000 she has done solo projects, written film music and collaborated further with international and Norwegian artists such as Helge Sten, Christian Wallumrød, Rolf Wallin, Jan Bang and Håkon Kornstad. She has toured all over the world, written music for several theater and dance perfomances and has been festival composer for the jazzfestivals in Bergen and Molde. And these are only some of her credentials. Stian Westerhus has been called the hardest working (jazz) musician in Norway, always on the road, in the studio or working on yet another project. Lately his main priorities, aside from Didymoi Dreams , have been his new solo record and his group Puma (both records scheduled for August) as well as touring as a member of Nils Petter Molvær´s trio. Last year he did a commison work for Molde International Jazz Festival that included names like Maja Ratkje, Mats Gustafsson, Kjetil Møster, Ola Kvernberg and Trondheim Jazz Orchetsra. Westerhus is a musician challenging and stretching the limits of his instrument beyond the normal confines of the electric guitar, balancing raw expressiveness against virtuosity and melodic instinct.