Ivar Grydeland
Updated info here: www.ivargrydeland.com
Ivar Grydeland, born in Trondheim 1976. Studied at the Norwegian Academy of music from 1996-2000, and from 2001–2003.
Ivar Grydeland plays acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar and banjo.
Grydeland runs the Norwegian label for improvised music SOFA with fellow musician Ingar Zach.
Some current projects
- Huntsville
- Dans les arbres
- duo with Japanese shamisen player Yumiko Tanaka. The duo also plays in trio with Xavier Charles
- North of the north - a project with phonographist Marc Pichelin and Xavier Charles exploring the sound in certain areas of the northern territory
Ivar has also been working with Christian Wallumrød, Phil Minton, Axel Dörner, Derek Bailey, Susie Ibarra, Xavier Charles, Michel Doneda, Raymond Strid, Martin Klapper, Steve Noble, Thomas Lehn, Andrea Neumann, Annette Krebs, Rhodri Davies, in addition to Norwegian musicians such as drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, bassist Ingebrigt Flaten, accordionist Frode Haltli, Maja Ratkje and many more. The last six years he has done tours and performed at festivals in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Holland, Germany, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Croatia, Czech rep., North and South America and Japan.
Ivar appears on the following SOFA-releases
- Tony Oxley Project 1 «Triangular Screen» (electric guitar)
- Ingar Zach / Ivar Grydeland «Visiting Ants» (electric guitar)
- No Spaghetti Edition
«Listen... And Tell Me What It Was» (electric guitar) - Philipp Wachsmann / Charlotte Hug / Ivar Grydeland / Ingar Zach
«Wazahugy» (electric guitar) - No Spaghetti Edition «Pasta Variations» (electric guitar)
- Ivar Grydeland / Tonny Kluften / Paul Lovens
«These Six» (acoustic guitar, banjo) - No Spaghetti Edition
«Real Time Satellite Data» (acoustic guitar, banjo) - Ingar Zach / Ivar Grydeland
«You Should Have Seen Me Before We First Met» (acoustic and electric guitar) - Yumiko Tanaka / Ivar Grydeland
«Continental Crust» (acoustic guitar) - No Spaghetti Edition «Sketches of a fusion» (guitar, banjo)
- Eivind Buene
«Asymmetrical Music» (acoustic guitar, banjo, tabla machine) - Marc Pichelin / Xavier Charles / Ivar Grydeland
«North of the North» (banjo)