Øystein Sevåg

MODERN composer and keyboardist Øystein Sevåg was created in Norway in 1957, starting piano lessons at age five. As a teenager he performed bass within a rock-band but came back to his traditional roots with time to review piano, flute and structure on the Music Conservatory of Oslo; with the 1980s, nevertheless, Sevåg acquired become fascinated with the possibilities provided by the introduction of the synthesizer, and he plunged into digital music along with his self-released 1989 debut LP Close Your Eye and See. The merchandise of five years within the studio room, the album gradually crept into Billboard’s MODERN graphs, and it arrived Sevåg in the Windham Hill label to concern the follow-up, 1993’s Hyperlink. He returned 2 yrs afterwards with Global Home, an archive reflecting a newfound curiosity about acoustic noises and worldbeat textures; Visible, a cooperation with guitarist Lakki Patey, adopted in 1996. Putting your signature on towards the Hearts of Space label, Sevåg resurfaced in 1997 using the acclaimed Bridge.