Petter Vågan (born 6 July 1982 in Brønnøysund,

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) is a Norwegian singer, guitarist, composer, and the younger brother of double bass player

Ole Morten Vågan Ole Morten Vågan (born 8 May 1979) is a Norwegians, Norwegian jazz musician and composer (double bass, upright bass), and the older brother of guitarist Petter Vågan. He is known from several recordings and is currently acting as artistic dir ...

. He is the bandleader, singer, and guitarist of the Norwegian indie electronica band The Fjords, founded in 2013.

Career

Vågan is based in

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, where he got a performing master's degree in improvisation at the Jazz Dept at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium. In addition to his latest endeavours in pop music, he has delved into various forms of improvisation. He has released several records as a leader and band member with an experimental style rooted somewhere between

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

free jazz Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventi ...

, rock,

free improvisation Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any general rules, instead following the intuition of its performers. The term can refer to both a technique—employed by any musician in any genre—and as a recognizable genre of ...

, and

noise music Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise. This type of music tends to challenge the distinction that is made in conventional musical practices between musical and non-musical sound. Noise music include ...

. He has toured extensively in Scandinavia, Russia, U.S., Japan, South Africa, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands, and collaborated with many improvising musicians in Norway.

Discography

* 2006: ''Slant of Light'' ( Jazzaway), within Eyewaterlillies * 2007: ''Selected Recordings'' (), within

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* 2008: ''That is a Step'' ( FMR), within duo Petter O Hanna (Hanna Gjermundrød) * 2009: '' Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Kobert'' (MNJ) * 2010: "Shapes & Phases" (Sofa), Vertex * 2010: ''A festa Vale Tudo'' (), within Erik Nylanders Orkester * 2010: ''Facienda'' ( Jazzland), within Motif * 2010: ''Shapes and Phases'' (Sofa), within Vertex * 2010: ''Tsar Bomba'', within Juxtaposed * 2010: ''Marianne Halmrast Kvintett'' (Aim) * 2010: ''Lucy'' (STWD), with Samuel Tramp * 2011: ''Volt/Revolt'' (Gigafon), within Marvel Machine * 2011: ''Treehouse'' * 2012: ''Early Years'' (), within

* 2012: ''Scent of Soil'' ( Hubro), with Tore Brunborg and Kirsti Huke * 2013: ''Rendition of a Whisper'' (Gigafon), Petter O Hanna * 2013: ''7th Day Saviour'' (Aspén), Kari Harneshaug * 2013: ''Babylove'' (

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), Ingrid * 2014: ''All In'' (Impeller), The Fjords

References

External links

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The Fjords Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vagan, Petter Norwegian pop singers Norwegian guitarists Norwegian male guitarists Norwegian composers Norwegian male composers Hubro Music artists Musicians from Brønnøy Living people 1982 births 21st-century Norwegian singers 21st-century Norwegian guitarists 21st-century Norwegian male singers Trondheim Jazz Orchestra members