Apr 3, 2015 | News Archive
Frode Fjellheim guest with Marte Hallem in Trønder-TV
Together with a small audience, Marte Hallem receives Trøndelag artists for a mini-concert and a short chat. Through the 12 program long series, Marte meets artists from different music disciplines and with different experience. The aim of the program series is to make visible some of the breadth and quality that Trøndelag musicians represent. This week Frode Fjellheim (keyboards / singing) is a guest.
Apr 3, 2015 | Music, News Archive
Sharaka Ensemble New CD; release April 24 2015
Sharaka Ensemble is a unique collaboration between Norwegian and Palestinian musicians! The music is inspired by both Norwegian and Arabic tradition, but developed further into something unique and powerful. It is full of contrasts, but still gives a hint of a number of similarities, and a nerve that connects the two cultures in a spellbinding way!
Nov 7, 2014 | News Archive
Frode Fjellheim and Hildegunn Øiseth are going on a 2 week tour in Japan this Christmas!
Frode Fjellheim has previously toured in Japan with Ulla Pirttijärvi. Now he goes with Hildegunn Øiseth to give concerts in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Shiga. On this tour, the Japanese audience will experience yoik, goat horn, neverlur and music from both Fjellheim´s and Øiseth´s CD releases.
Jan 17, 2014 | News Archive
The Dalvedh project is getting closer to its final version!
Exhibition / Performance in Östersund February 1st. After that, the exhibition runs until March 8th
Video, photos, music, sound in 10 channels - including a yoiking sculpture built of sewer pipes !!
A look at Sami culture and history - including what has been forgotten / hidden / hidden / tried to remove…
The project is created by Sissel Bergh and Frode Fjellheim, in collaboration with Ada Einmo Jürgensen.
Dec 7, 2013 | News Archive
The Disney film "Frost" ("Frozen") premieres in Norway on Christmas Day and is, according to Disney, inspired by Norwegian nature, culture, architecture and music.
The music for the film is composed by the film composer Christophe Beck, while the opening song is composed by Frode Fjellheim, who in collaboration with Beck has also adapted this into one of the final scenes in the film.
The press says, among other things:
"He took the yok to Hollywood"
«Compared to Elton John»
Nov 29, 2013 | Music, News Archive
Now available on CD!
Adresseavisen: «A masterpiece»
After the premiere at Voss in 2011, Avisa Hordaland wrote;
«The mix of Latin, Norse and Sami texts in combination with Frode Fjellheim's genre and cross-border world music blended so well together. So natural that you mostly began to wonder why not all masses through all time were written in this way. "
Nov 21, 2013 | Music
New CD!
Hildegunn Øiseth's fellow musicians on this record fascinated her with their playing playing already in the nineties when she toured with them in the Bohuslän big band. Then they meet again for some hot days in Valencia where they exchange songs and a brand new joy of playing. The nuanced album has been characterized by both Iberian and Nordic tone color. It grows out of the meditative tone from the previous album, Stillness, whirls up rawer rhythms along the way, at the same time as it draws up the exciting path further.
Nov 19, 2013 | News Archive
The release of the album "Biejjien vuelie - Solkvad" was marked with two concerts; in Oslo and at Levanger. Both concerts were well attended and gave a fantastic response from the audience. Here you see some selected photos from Knut Utler and Kjell Bitustøyl from the concert in Oslo.
Oct 10, 2013 | News Archive
The CD «Biejjien vuelie - Solkvad», which will be released on Monday November 11th, will be marked with concerts in Levanger Kulturkirke on November 15 and Riksscenen in Oslo on November 17.
Aug 12, 2013 | News Archive
The newspaper Vårt land describes the concert during the Sami church days in Mo i Rana as "Border-breaking" and a cultural highlight.
Rana Blad writes; Boundary-breaking traditional music that reaches and touches something very special ..
A packed large lavvu (Sami tent) showed a wonderful enthusiasm for Frode Fjellheim's commissioned work for the festival.