"A magnificent meeting between three musicians. Moments causing goosebumps occur one after the other like beads on a string" - Eivind Strømsøy, Hamar Arbeiderblad

https://www.nrk.no/kultur/ingen-god-ide---men-gjorde-det-likevel-1.14033030

"Virtuoso musicians engaged in first-rate interplay" - Sigbjørn Apeland, Dag og Tid

Listen here:
https://radio.nrk.no/serie/spillerom-hovedsending/MKRM01009018/04-05-2018

CD / Vinyl
https://sigurdhole.bandcamp.com/music
High-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more included

Streaming:
http://phonofile.link/encounters

CD / Vinyl: https://sigurdhole.bandcamp.com/music
High-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more included. Here you can also pre-order the new trio album "Encounters" (release date April 27th)
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Digital: http://phonofile.link/elvesang
(iTunes, Spotify, etc)

https://goo.gl/SUTqEH

Norwegian bassist Sigurd Hole takes you on an incredibly sound journey, playing his composition "Vindu".
Watch Part 1-5 on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/sihole1

"Beautiful and masterful" - Elvesang warmly and thoroughly reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni for Salt peanuts.
http://salt-peanuts.eu/record/sigurd-hole/

Elvesang recommended in the latest issue of The New York City Jazz Record by managing editor Laurence Donohue-Greene.

"...an album of profound beauty" 4/5
In-depth review of Elvesang by John Kelman, written for allaboutjazz.com. Excerpt below, read the whole review at

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/elvesang-sigurd-hole-elvesang-review-by-joh...

Nice review (5/6) of "Elvesang" in Hamar Arbeiderblad:
http://www.h-a.no/kultur/musikk/hole-in-one

Nice review of Elvesang from Germany! "..einen überaus kreativen solist, der sein Instrument wie kaum ein zweiter zu handhaben versteht" - Klaus Halama
http://www.sound-and-image.de/review_3665.htm

On the road, 10 solo concerts with "Elvesang". Interview with Norwegian jazz writer Terje Mosnes today (19.01):
https://jazzinorge.no/2018/01/19/sigurd-hole-pa-egne-strenger/

Press release 19.01.2018:

The CD of my new solo double bass album "Elvesang" just arrived! Official release date is January 19th. For pre-sale of signed CD send an email to hole.sigurd@gmail.com. "Elvesang" will also be released on Vinyl (January 24th) and digital platforms (January 19th).

I am having a truly fantastic week at Håvard Lund´s remarkable island retreat outside of Bodø, Norway. Time to think, space to create. Peace and quiet just to be. Inspired by the natural surroundings of Fleinvær, I have recorded some solo double bass improvisations during my stay - combining them with my own photos from the island to make small videos. One of them is embedded here, check out this Vimeo album for more: https://vimeo.com/album/4801857

Video from the recording session of my upcoming trio album - check it out! With Håkon Aase, Jarle Vespestad and Roar Nilsen. Release first half of 2018, date TBA.

Recording with my trio. Just finished recording our first album in Urban Sound studios in Oslo, with sound engineer Roar Nilsen. Very happy about the result. Release 2018 - stay tuned for more info!

Jon Eberson Group anno 2017 låter ikke som den Jon Eberson Group man kjente til på 80-tallet - både låtene og lydbildet skiller seg radikalt fra det legendariske jazzrock-soundet som gjerne forbindes med gamle hits som for eksempel «Jive Talking».

Nominated for a Norwegian Grammy 2016 / Nominert til Spellemannpris 2016 !

The making of my first solo double bass record in progress! July 22nd - 24th 2016, Ytre Rendal kirke with sound engineer Daniel Mikael Wold.

I have started my own trio, Sigurd Hole trio, with Jarle Vespestad - drums and Håkon Aase - violin. It´s a great pleasure to write music for and to play with this small, open chamber music group!

This review of Eple Trios "Universal Cycle" just came in from swedish magazine LIRA. Excerpt in english: "Hole changes neatly between arco and pizzicato playing. At times so beautiful it is almost painful - as in the bass solo on Tipplers Insomnia (arco), where the notes changes into overtones in a way that nearly resembles a human voice cracking up. It´s fragile, vulnerable and brilliant."
http://www.lira.se/skivrecension/universal-cycle/

So happy to be the winner of Forsberg and Aulies grant 2014! The grant is 100 000 kr, and will be used for focusing amongst other things on my own solo recording in 2015. An honour to accept this grant as the first jazz musician ever, following last years winner Vilde Frang and earlier winners such as Håvard Gimse and Wolfgang Plagge.
www.forsbergaulieslegat.no
http://nmh.no/ansatte/nyheter/sigurd-hole-tildelt-musikkstipend

It just became official that I am the new bass player in Tord Gustavsen quartet! Very excited about that. Following great bass players Mats Eilertsen and Harald Johnsen it will not be an easy spot to fill, but I will do my best to keep the continuity in their ideas growing while approaching the music bringing whatever I can of my own identity into the band. A couple of weeks ago I made my first tour with the quartet, 7 flights in 3 days brought us to Bielsko Blava (Poland), Antalya (Turkey) and Sibiu (Romania).