Terje Evensen
Norwegian drummer, electronic musician, composer, and producer.
Terje Evensen (b. 1978) has specialised in improvised modern jazz music, though in the last 10 years he has incorporated more and more electro elements into his work. He enjoys working with acoustic samples/recordings and mixing them together on an electro palette. He has composed music for his own projects as well as for theatre and film, where he has, as always, experimented with multiple music styles such as jazz, ambient, and electronica – creating spacious and dramatic soundscapes of profound intensity.
Evensen has been involved in more than 20 albums, either as a drummer, electronic musician, or producer; or as all three. His most remarkable releases with bands came out of his work with Spin Marvel, Pd conception, Fringe Magnetic and BARK.
In 2010 he released his solo album, Still you. You still here, which consisted purely of percussion and electronics. He released it on the Berlin based platform FONORUM. It was also the world’s very first net-album.
www.stillyou-youstillhere.com
Evensen has worked with some of Europe’s finest musicians such as Martin France, Tim Harries, Nils Petter Molvær, John Paul Jones, John Parricelli, Rory Simmons, Elisabeth Nygard, Terje Gewelt, Julian Arguelles, Michael Kiedaisch, Mattias Mains, Frank Kroll, Mike Walker, Bjørne Charles Dreyer, Svein Schulz, and Steve Waterman.
Looking further afield, notable collaborators include Julio ”Chocolate” Algendones, Andrés Prado, Aldo Lopez-Gavilan and José Luis Madueño.
He has toured near, close, and far and wide, most notably Peru and Japan for the far and wide, and the UK, Germany, and Norway for the near and close.
Evensen has also featured in a number of high profile festivals, most recently: Punkt festival 2010 (solo project), Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2011(Spin Marvel) and the London Jazz Festival 2011 (Eyes of a Blue Dog and Fringe Magnetic).
Coming up you can catch him in Skien with Tim Harries at Parkbiografen, as a part of Vinterjazz 2012 (3rd Feb.) and at the Victoria Theatre/National Jazz Scene in Oslo with Spin Marvel (4th Feb.).
Evensen runs Stereo studio in Oslo together with Geir Bremer Øvrebø. He annually arranges and produces the electro/acoustic festival Tape to Zero together with Kjetil Husebø. Tape to Zero is a showcase of Norway’s leading electro-impro bands and projects, held over 2 days it provides platform for up and coming artists to perform together and next to those who are more established.