Terje Nicolaisen

Lives and works in Oslo, Norway

Artist statement

Terje Nicolaisen releases the record Terje Nicolaisen this Wednesday, 12.12.12, at Tidens Krav. The event will be celebrated with a release concert with Terje and his band. Nicolaisen's oeuvre can be described as an uninterrupted, unfiltered stream of consciousness that resonates from his adequate viewpoint as an artist, musician and fellowman. His contribution to this world finds its place on paper, on tape, in matter, or in Terjes persona – whereupon the boundaries between genres, institutions, and media are leisurely, but consistently challenged. He can be a conveyor of the easily absurd, as well as the deeply romantic, nontheless, he is a brilliant example of man's changing ideas and feelings in the contemporary cultural condition. At times it may seem as if the core of Nicolaisens production lies in the performative action of being. His idea of work just flowing out, and becoming what it becomes when it finds its place in this world, has through the album "Terje Nicolaisen" been challenged, transformed, filtered and polished by a group of competent musicians. His working method and excecution is quite similar to previous works – like a swift and precise croquies – only this time, fixated and beautifully framed. For those who find the need to classify or place this record in some kind of box or genre, must firstly consider this record's premises. Tidens Krav believe that this record goes beyond genre and classification, it doesn't fall in between two chairs – music or...

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