Caroline Lavelle

has been working with quite different artists like Siousxie And The Banshees, Fun Boy Three, Humoresque, Radiohead, The Cranberries, Peter Gabriel, Nigel Kennedy, Indigo Girls, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vangelis, Hector Zazou, Massive Attack, Chieftains and Loreena McKennitt to mention some, as well as released four solo albums. She also has the band Secret Sky with a couple of mates from the McKennitt band.

I have taken some of Lavelle's already brilliant productions, and given them a new twist. That included prolonging already long pieces to make space for my own improvisations without stepping on other musicians' toes. Some of Caroline's musical mates also became my collaborators through working on her recordings.

Check out Caroline's website: https://carolinelavelle.com/

Clare Kenny

has a long track record as a bass player including hundreds of studio sessions and touring with Sinead O’Connor as well as The Indigo Girls among others. Clare and Caroline make music and perform together frequently. They also have an agency and promotion company, Dryad Music.

On our version of the song «The House of the Rising Sun» Clare’s bass groove holds it all together as well as adds nerve through small melodic improvisations. No wonder she is such a treasured bass player. She and Caroline made a brilliant version before I was bewitched into remixing and making myself audible with the other two.

Jacobus deGraaf

is a piano player from Netherland, working with Caroline on writing, composing and arranging music.

On the track «Wind on the downs» he and Caroline play 4-handed piano. The text is a poem by Marian Allen. She wrote it in 1918 after losing her fiance in World War 1.

Carl Tomas Nising

with the artist name Nising, makes dreamy pop music. The songs Hubris and Sleepwalker come from his hand and were initially produced by him before being remixed by me to make space for my saxophone. He is from my hometown Stavanger and I’ve known him since he was a kid.

Jake’s Jacket

is actually me. It is a second artist profile I own, a more rock oriented version of me, with (rotten) vocal and a slightly more political approach.

Take this video as an example. The leader of Scientists Warning, the late Stuart Scott, kindly gave me permission to use their video material at https://scientistswarning.org/

Michael Horton plays the guitar on «2060 or so...».

Lena Kristin Bru Søndervik

is the artist behind the paintings I usually choose as illustrations for my songs. She is also the mother of my two firstborn children. Do you like Lenas paintings? Send her an email!

Collaborators

Besides developing my own material in solitude, I like working with others. Finding the right people is not always easy. If you look for something special, you may end up going quite far to find soul mates. I've been lucky. It has been so inspiring that I put my own musical ideas aside for a while.