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"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley

Nils Økland band

Nils Økland is an innovative violinist and Hardanger fiddle specialist who is creatively expanding the range of the traditional music of his homeland. He describes his own music as a 'hybrid between the poetry of folk music and the energy of punk.' 
Økland has published four albums on the label ECM, the solo “Monograph", the duo "Lysøen" along with Sigbjørn Apeland, with "Lumen Drones" (2014) and "Kjølvatn" in 2105 with Nils Økland Band. Before this he released two albums on Rune Grammofon.