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Chrome Hill feirer 25 år med albumet «En Route», utgitt i mai 2025 på det portugisiske Clean Feed. På det nye albumet har gitarist og komponist Asbjørn Lerheim latt seg inspirere av det å være på reise, både fysisk og mentalt. Samtidig er det umulig å ikke la seg prege av det som skjer nå i verden, noe som gjenspeiler både et mørke og lys i musikken på det nye albumet.
Lerheim har hentet inspirasjon fra musikken til Paul Motian, Neil Young, Ennio Morricones filmverden og ikke minst japansk frijazz.
Chrome Hill blander jazz, impro, rock og americana med åpne strukturer og sterke melodilinjer. Musikken er skrevet av Asbjørn Lerheim og bærer spor av sorg, motstand og håp. I tillegg til Lerheim består bandet av Atle Nymo (tenorsaksofon/bassklarinett), Roger Arntzen (kontrabass/elektronikk) og Erik Nylander (vikar på trommer) – alle sentrale navn i den norske jazzfaunaen.
For fans av Bill Frisell, Paul Motian, Ennio Morricone og annen åpen, stemningsdrevet jazz: dette er et album som treffer.
«Bandets beste tilstandsrapport noensinne» (Nettavisen)
«En Route har opplagde hi-fi-kvalitetar! […] Dei kallar musikken jazzrock-noir, og i vrimmelen i sjangernyansar er dette ein som faktisk gjev meining» (Dag og Tid)
«Vakkert album […] Smyg seg stilt og varsamt inn øyregangane» (Sulaposten)
«Vakkert og utfordrende» (Volum11)
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CHROME HILL Biography
The Norwegian jazzrock noir band Chrome Hill has by the press been described as «Intense alternative Americana», «Sparkling guerilla jazz» and «Desert rock from the top shelf». Through almost two decades and seven albums they have slowly transformed from your typical sixties-acoustic-jazz-band into a more cinematic and rock attitude of jazz noir. "This is Chrome Hill" (2020) was inspired by contrasts, both in life, the nature on the small island Sula on the west coast of Norway, where guitarist and composer Asbjørn Lerheim has his origin, but also by the contrasts in the daily life and experiences from Japan, where Chrome Hill has toured regularly the last five years.
An obsidian tale without words. An epic, yet all-too-mortal journey, rolling out like a Jim Dodge fever dream, before plunging headlong into
the dark night of the soul. Navigating a series of atmospheric shadow zones, mapped in a chiaroscuro of painterly strokes with grand
panoramic vision, Chrome Hill’s "En Route" (2025) pulls straight from the heart, capturing its raw emotion on a widescreen canvas ablaze.
Taking divine inspiration from mood masters such as Ennio Morricone, Paul Motian and Bill Frisell, Chrome Hill squeeze every nuance of
feeling, passion and promise from Asbjørn Lerheim’s spacious compositions on this seventh full-length (the first two recorded under the
quartet’s previous moniker, Damp). Combining dexterous arrangements with scintillating passages of free-improvisation, the group forge a
uniquely atmospheric soundtrack raised in tribute to the indomitability of the human spirit, an album borne of personal trial and tribulation.
“This music was written during several stages of grieving,” explains Lerheim. “It traces the ups-and-downs of my daughter’s severe
epilepsy, and all that has followed with this life-altering diagnosis.”
Guitarist Asbjørn Lerheim, saxophonist Atle Nymo, bassist Roger Arntzen and drummer Torstein Lofthus has toured in Norway, Sweden, England, France, Portugal and Japan, and they released their seventh album "En Route" on Clean Feed Records in May 2025 to much acclaim.
The members of Chrome Hill also known from bands like Elephant 9, I.P.A, In the Country, Lisa Dillan Quite Quiet Project, and comes from a broad musical background. References like the band Earth and Bill Frisell has also been used about Chrome Hill.
Read MoreAn obsidian tale without words. An epic, yet all-too-mortal journey, rolling out like a Jim Dodge fever dream, before plunging headlong into
the dark night of the soul. Navigating a series of atmospheric shadow zones, mapped in a chiaroscuro of painterly strokes with grand
panoramic vision, Chrome Hill’s "En Route" (2025) pulls straight from the heart, capturing its raw emotion on a widescreen canvas ablaze.
Taking divine inspiration from mood masters such as Ennio Morricone, Paul Motian and Bill Frisell, Chrome Hill squeeze every nuance of
feeling, passion and promise from Asbjørn Lerheim’s spacious compositions on this seventh full-length (the first two recorded under the
quartet’s previous moniker, Damp). Combining dexterous arrangements with scintillating passages of free-improvisation, the group forge a
uniquely atmospheric soundtrack raised in tribute to the indomitability of the human spirit, an album borne of personal trial and tribulation.
“This music was written during several stages of grieving,” explains Lerheim. “It traces the ups-and-downs of my daughter’s severe
epilepsy, and all that has followed with this life-altering diagnosis.”
Guitarist Asbjørn Lerheim, saxophonist Atle Nymo, bassist Roger Arntzen and drummer Torstein Lofthus has toured in Norway, Sweden, England, France, Portugal and Japan, and they released their seventh album "En Route" on Clean Feed Records in May 2025 to much acclaim.
The members of Chrome Hill also known from bands like Elephant 9, I.P.A, In the Country, Lisa Dillan Quite Quiet Project, and comes from a broad musical background. References like the band Earth and Bill Frisell has also been used about Chrome Hill.
Jazz Rock
Guitar Jazz
Jazz
Saxophone Jazz
Double Bass
Drums
Experimental Double Bass & Electronics
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