“Terje has a unique production style and an ear for pleasant surprises.”
Chris Koff – Sound on Sound
NORWEGIAN DRUMMER, ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN, COMPOSER, AND PRODUCER.
Evensen works within improvised modern jazz music combined with electro elements. He is adept in working with acoustic samples/recordings and mixing them together on an electro palette. He is always experimenting within a wonderland where different genres cross over – where jazz meets ambient, and electronica – creating spacious and dramatic soundscapes of profound intensity.
Catalogue of colleagues: Leo Abrahams, Nils Petter Molvær, John Paul Jones, Tim Harries, J. Peter Schwalm, Anthony Cox, Martin France, John Parricelli, Terje Gewelt, Brandon Wozniak, Bjørn Klakegg, Rory Simmons, Elisabeth Nygard, Anders Tveit, Fyfe Dangerfield, Julian Arguelles, Ingvo Clauder, Anna Stereopoulou, Michael Kiedaisch, Mattias Mains, Mike Walker, Bjørne Charles Dreyer, Svein Schulz, and Steve Waterman, as well as Julio ”Chocolate” Algendones, Andrés Prado, Aldo Lopez-Gavilan and José Luis Madueño.
He can be heard on more then 50 albums and the people of Peru, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Austria, Chile, New Zealand, and Norway have been lucky enough to hear him play live.
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Upcoming Dates
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17th of november
Túcume Archeological Site
Peru
21th of November
Mateo Salado Complex
Peru
More dates to come
Albums
Press
Interviews
Terje Evensen talks to Alceste Ayroldi
Alceste Ayroldi – Musica jazz
Terje Evensen talks to Knut Heggenes
Knut Heggenes – Varden
Terje Evensen talks to Fiona Talkington
Fiona Talkington – MIC – Listen to Norway
Terje Evensen talks to Sebastian Scotney
Sebastian Scotney – London Jazz News
Quotes
“Evensen is adept at making the unsaid said, the little bell-like noises and murmurings he invokes as part of his cave of softly encroaching sounds as mysterious as the dawn approaching.”
Stephen Graham – Marlbank
“Evensen is a master of the soundscaper’s art”
Ian Mann – The Jazz Mann
“On Apochryful, the laptop ripple from Terje Evensen is incorporated in a remarkably sensitive and undemonstrative way – Evensen simply adding to the textural and melodic commentaries of the rhythm section.”
Daniel Paton – Music OMH
“The Norwegian adds his trademark electronica to a slowed down, melancholic Fringe Magnetic arrangement…….
……, and thanks to Evensen, intrinsically Nordic in feel.”
Ian Mann – The Jazz Mann
“ – a high point of Twistic being ‘Apochryful’ also featuring Spin Marvel’s Norwegian percussionist Terje Evensen’s subtle electronic treatments.”
Selwyn Harries – Jazzwise
“Norwegian keys, drums, electronics expert Terje Evensen – feature sparse dynamics with enterprising samples of white noise and percussive loops.”
Keith Arnes – UK Musician Union
“There is something quite beautiful, often calm and even stunning about this music that I find most enchanting.”
Bruce Lee Gallanter – Downtown Music Gallery
“Terje has a unique production style and an ear for pleasant surprises.”
Chris Koff – Sound on Sound
”Percussionist Terje Evensen adds decorative colour and texture; scraped and bowed cymbals, nuanced and fragmented rhythms.”
The Wire
”Evensen is a sensitive player, and his contributions subtly reinforce some of the rhythmic aspects of the music without ever slipping into a flat-out groove.”
Brain Marley – The Wire
”Evensen, a former student of the mighty Audun Kleive clearly relishes exploring the extremities of his kit as well as playing in time.”
John Gill – Jazzwise
”Terje Evensen is one of the brightest young jazz musicians I have heard for many years”
Graham Collier – Jazz changes
”This is nightmarish, futuristic ambient jazz, full of brooding throbs and clanking electronics courtesy of Norwegian programmer Terje Evensen.”
Kartan Mackness – Time Out
”Terje is very much a multi talented musician too who I met here in London. Not only is he a great drummer but he has other skills too, which mark him out as a very special musician to me.”
Martin France in an interview with Jazzwise Magazine
”Norwegians Terje Gewelt (Bass) and Terje Evensen (drums) set up a Brilliant rhythmic foundations for Powell and the breathtaking guitarist Mike Walker.”
JazzUK
”Drummer Evensen was a perfect example of the new school of drummer, a modern electronic-influenced player but well versed in free jazz, his playing was fresh and driving”
Steve Cournane – The Dominion post New Zealand
Paracas Ritual at Teatro en Grande
TV Perú
In this episode, we will relive the concert by Peruvian percussionist Manongo Mujica alongside Norwegian musician Terje Evensen, which takes us on a journey through desert landscapes, guided by field recordings and lush electronic and rhythmic textures.