Alien Horticultures Jonas Sjøvaag & Juhani Silvola

• 1 Into the Green Abyss 07:00
• 2 Alien Horticultures 06:30
• 3 Norwegian Forest 05:12
• 4 Grasslands 11:03
• 5 Heat Death 04:46
• Total Runtime 34:31

Info for Alien Horticultures

Two seasoned improvisers presents their second album.

Alien Horticultures is a multifaceted experience drawing from wildly diverse musical backgrounds, including Scottish and Norwegian folk, jazz, improv, classical, rock and pop, and various genre-defying detours.

This album picks up where Music for Cities left off, but takes a slightly more defined path, displaying an abundance of musical imagination and a driving force of will towards crystallised exploration.

Juhani plays the guitar, and Jonas plays the drums. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Færder Audio.

Jonas Sjøvaag, drums
Juhani Silvola, guitar

Jonas H. Sjøvaag
is a multi-talented artist and musician, working with everything from musical improvisational structures, pop music, photography, linographic and other prints, carving, digital artwork and editing, composing, drumming and web developement, to combinations of these or something completely different.

While listing David Hockney, Uta Barth, Tom Waits, Jan Garbarek, Jan Johansson and Hiroshi Sugimoto as major sources of inspiration, Sjøvaag has a unique touch and mode of expression, both in his visual work, as well as in his compositions and lyrics.

Jonas was born in München on Nov. 03, 1978, started playing classical piano at age 5. He had his solo debut with Vestfold Youth Symphony Orchestra at age 11. He started playing drums at age 10, and switched main focus to jazz drums at age 17.

Visual expression through drawing, painting, photography or other outputs has always been a big part of Sjøvaag's daily routine. An autodidact in the field, countless hours has been spent digesting books of technique, perspective, color, anatomy and art philosophy.

Juhani Silvola
I work at a high level in a wide variety of styles. My main areas of expertise are electro-acoustic contemporary music, acoustic traditional music and experimental jazz, rock and electronica. I have a masters degree in composition from the Norwegian Academy of Music, where I studied with Natasha Barrett.

My music is characterised by expressive energy and visceral impact, melodic invention and multilayered and highly detailed soundscape. I both record and mix my own music, and have a studio in downtown Oslo. I play plucked instruments, synthesizers and percussion, and have access to extremely high level musicians who play various styles and instruments.

My experience of composing for visual media has been mainly within theatre (Norwegian National Theatre) and contemporary dance. I am now expanding to write for film & tv, and I wish to meet relevant people for that purpose. I have mixed and produced many high profile albums and worked with amongst others: Highasakite, Sarah-Jane Summers, Jenny Hval, Sam Lee, Frode Haltli AvantFolk, Unni Løvlid, Splashgirl, Erlend Apneseth, Poing, Erlend Viken Trio, Sigrid Moldestad, Joachim Badenhorst, Sver, Hayden Powell and Jessica Sligter.

This album contains no booklet.