Oslo-Based Hitra's New Album 'Transparence' Out Now

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Source: Alessandro Sgobbio
February 23, 2021
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Hitra plays imaginative original music and improvisations. 'Transparence' is a journey into imaginary, lost and hidden places.

HITRA

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A project born at the Norges Musikkh?gskole in Oslo, HITRA reunites four artists who have extensively investigated contemporary art forms.

The band is made up of pianist and composer

Alessandro Sgobbio

piano

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Hilmar Jensson

guitar

" data-original-title="" title="">Hilmar Jensson on guitar,

Jo Berger Myhre

bass

" data-original-title="" title="">Jo Berger Myhre on bass and

Oyvind Skarbo

drums
b.1982

" data-original-title="" title="">Oyvind Skarbo on drums. The band has performed concerts and recorded in Norway.

Transparence is a journey into imaginary, lost and hidden places. The opening track Lebtit (written by

Alessandro Sgobbio

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Alessandro Sgobbio) evokes the homonym lost city, whose mysterious story can be found in ��One thousand and one nights�� as well as Jorge Louis Borges and Georges Perec books.

Jo Berger Myhre

bass

" data-original-title="" title="">Jo Berger Myhre��s solo theme on 'The Perfect Light Of Sandstad' (a village of the Hitra municipality, a Norwegian county which covers hundred islands, islets and skerries) introduces

Hilmar Jensson

guitar

" data-original-title="" title="">Hilmar Jensson��s guitar solo on “Cite? Des Poe?tes" (an elegy to the recently-demolished adventurous housing project in the Parisian suburbs). The band-collective dialogue on “Labtayt" and “To See Was To Be," features

Oyvind Skarbo

drums
b.1982

" data-original-title="" title="">Oyvind Skarbo��s oneiric percussions, bells, papers and whistles.

The album was recorded at Westerdal Oslo ACT by Sander L?vland Nyhagen & Emil Str?m and mixed and mastered by Stefano Amerio at Artesuono Recording Studios, Italy. Album Cover and Video by Soukizy.

Release: February 19, 2021
AMP Music & Records (AT085)