Dobbelkonsert: Knut Reiersrud band + Sidiki Camara Trio

Double concert with Knut Reiersrud band and Sidiki Camara.

It may seem that it is a piece from master percussionists from Mali to Norway's greatest blues guitarist, but is it really that? This is an opportunity to experience two of the greatest artists this city houses, when Knut Reiersrud and Sidiki Camara each take their band to Oslo's most beautiful culture house - Cosmopolite Scene. The windows are wide open in this music, and we can promise the audience a great experience.

Knut Reiersrud
 

One of the country's greatest guitarists has used the quarantine to compare two 20s.

When Knut Reiersrud had to change his plans this spring, and ended up recording the concise album Ballads and Blues from the 20s, it ended up being characterized by both spontaneity and deep historical connections. This is exactly what should not surprise anyone who has listened to Reiersrud's music, who for a number of years has carefully opened windows in the blues heritage from the decades he is so fond of, and towards other traditions, whether it is music from Setesdal, Middle East, New Orleans , the European classical tradition or the Norwegian and Danish hymnal. Combining historical respect and insight with the voracious curiosity of a modern person who is still trying to figure out how music belongs in society, characterizes everything he does as a communicator - whether he paints the power lines of music history as a presenter in the Blues Asylum or he plays with new and old constellations. The 20s have an obvious double meaning - it points back to the 1920s, which next to the sixties is the musical decade that has meant the most to Reiersrud's musicianship. It also points to the decade that is underway, and which in a similar way threatens major upheavals, both culturally and socially. Reiersrud lives, like the rest of us, in interesting times - and both with the family orchestra, with which he has recorded the album, and with his many years of regular band, consisting of some of Norway's foremost musicians, he finds both resistance and deep musicality in the matter.

Sidiki Camara

Those who have heard him are hardly surprised, but many music-interested listeners in Oslo can easily be a little struck by the meeting with Sidiki Camara, one of the foremost percussionists from Mali, now living in Oslo. A musician who has been a guest artist and band member on several tours with Bill Frisell, and who from an early age was in demand by musicians such as Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté, Oumou Sangaré and Habib Koité. Camara plays djembe and gourd, as well as melodic instruments such as balafon and ngoni.

In 2010, he moved to Oslo, where he left an increasingly marked mark on Norwegian improvised music, among other things in collaboration with musicians such as Bugge Wesseltoft, Audun Erlien and Bendik Hofseth. The latter two together with Jacob Young form the band he has with him on the brand new solo album Yafa. He can also often be heard with the equally current band Burn For The Moon or for that matter with the budding cult band Sex Judas. There are very few musical contexts that will not be lifted by Camara's presence and groove. When he comes to Cosmopolite with his own group, the audience at Torshov will simply share vibrations with one of the most talented musicians we have had in Norway.