Lars Saabye Christensen og Steinar Raknes

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TIME from lyrics by Lars Saabye Christensen and songs by Steinar Raknes. For a year, Raknes and Christensen have been working together on the album "Time", which will be released in December this year. 

These are songs that are about time; the time we live in, the time we have, the time we get, the time we have left and the time the world has left. Raknes brings with them some of the country's best musicians, and with a love for roots music, Americana, blues and Norwegian folk tradition they have created a beautiful album, which will be released in the fall. 

The band is acoustic and consists of: 

Steinar Raknes - double bass/vocals Andreas Utnem - tree organ 

Knut Reiersrud - harmonica/guitar 

Per Oddvar Johansen - drums/saw

 Lars Saabye Christensen - poetry, reading (On the record is Mickey Raphael on harmonica, from the Willie Nelson band) 

Steinar Raknes (1975…) is one of the country's most renowned bassists, and has been active on the Norwegian and international jazz scenes since the 1990s. He has collaborated with international greats such as Chick Corea, and Norwegian stars such as Tord Gustavsen and Ola Kvernberg. He is also known as a songwriter and vocalist in his project Stillhouse, where he collaborates with Unni Wilhelmsen, among others. 

Andreas Utnem (1973…) is a Norwegian jazz musician, composer and arranger. He has mainly worked with music for theatre, film and television. He has also been a musician on a number of releases. He currently works as a cantor and musical director at Tøyenkirka in Oslo. He has composed musical liturgical sections for the High Mass, and hymns with, among others, Edvard Hoem and Jon Fosse.

 Knut Reiersrud (1961…) is a Norwegian blues guitarist and composer, known for a number of collaborations in various musical genres, a long series of album releases under his own name, and contributions to around three hundred recordings. Reiersrud has been a performing musician since the early 1970s and has won three Spellemannspriser awards.

Per Oddvar Johansen (1968…) is a Norwegian drummer, known from, among others, Trondheim Kunstorkester and collaborations with Trygve Seim, Vigleik Storaas and Christian Wallumrød. The band The Source has been an important contribution to recent Norwegian jazz. He has played in Steinar Raknes' band Stillhouse for many years

 Lars Saabye Christensen (1953…) is a writer with Danish and Norwegian citizenship. He has always lived in Norway, writes in Norwegian, and the action in his literature takes place in Norway. He is a productive and versatile writer, and one of Norway's most popular writers of his generation. He has collaborated with musicians on several occasions, and is known for his musical performances of his own poems