Erik Wollo
Biography
Norwegian composer Erik Wollo started out as a jazz guitarist and dabbled in jazz-rock fusion on his early recordings. In 1984, however, he came out with Traces, an electronic album of startling originality. His subsequent releases are equally impressive. While there's always a sense of warmth to his atmospheric pieces, his music resounds with the stark beauty of Norway's wintry landscapes. Through his subtle minimalist patterns and nebulous breaths of sound, you can easily imagine the composer staring through windows splayed with ice crystals as Arctic winds whisper across the snow fields and ethereal northern lights pulse steadily in the distance. ~ Linda Kohanov, All Music Guide
Selected Discography
Just the word, Norway, causes me to think a bleak Winterscape of ice and snow and frost and icicles and a chill wind, whose memory still cuts to the bone.
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Of course, he's Norwegian. I get the same feelings when I listen to Jan Garbarek. My great grandfather was from Oslo, Norway. Maybe, just maybe, it's in my chemical make up.....
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as in "Pure Silence"? jay roy? http://www.p u r e s i l e n c e . o r g /
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The greatest new age ambient music comes from Norway. From Amethystium and this guy! <3
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My eyes are closed and my mind gently moves towards the center of my inner self and reflects on my surroundings - silence - listen to the silence.
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