Emilie Lidsheim
GAP

Emilie’s debut album. 
Release: september 25 2020

After extensive touring with a number of Norway's greatest artists, violinist and folk singer Emilie Lidsheim has taken the step out to front her own music. It embraces a modern song style with a mix of classical, jazz, pop and folk. With her Norwegian and lyrical texts, she addresses both small and larger societal themes, with climate struggle and differences in society as flagship issues. Together with the well known jazz pianist and producer Morten Qvenild, she has made an album Øra is proud to show off.

"The album is first and foremost a story about us. How we meet strangers, those who are different from us and how we meet ourselves. But it is also a story about how we as humans take care of nature and unfortunately to an even greater extent destroy it. " - Emilie Lidsheim

Without being instructive or sentimental, she goes into this matter and paints musical images of feverish air, gaps between cultures, burned forests and an anxious mind. The songs are still not typical political battle songs, but political stories in a more lyrical musical landscape.

Emilie Lidsheim has a background as a classical violinist, with a degree from the Barratt Due Music Institute and the Norwegian Academy of Music. In addition, she grew up with folk music through a long collaboration with her father and folk singer Karl Heldal. She already has extensive experience in the classical music industry and regularly works with classical ensembles such as Ensemble Allegria, The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, The Norwegian Soloist Choir, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra and The Oslo Philharmonic. In addition, she has worked extensively in world music and pop with artists such as a-ha, Odd Nordstoga, Eva Weel Skram, No4, Christel Alsos, the string trio LEO, the Zanzibar jazz band Matona’s Afdhal Group and Javid Afsari. In 2010, she participated in a cultural exchange project in East Africa that left deep traces with her both humanly and musically. This started a quest to tell stories with words and new musical expressions. This album is a result of her search for a distinctive expression, a desire to tell stories in Norwegian in a kind of expanded folk genre, about society, about nature and about herself.

Musicians:
Emilie Lidsheim - vocal, violin & viola
Morten Qvenild - keys 
Ivar Myrset Asheim - drums & percussions
Stian Andreas Egeland Andersen - double bass 

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PRODUCTION // OF 166
All tunes and texts written by Emilie Lidsheim, except “Jeg maler dagen hel” by Karl Heldal.
Produced & recorded by Morten Qvenild in Ugla Lyd.
Mix by Morten Qvenild & Johnny Skalleberg in Amper Tone
Master by Karl Klaseie in Øra Mastering
Photo by Sigrid Bjorbekkmo
Cover design by Christian Meaas Svendsen