Orter Eparg Orter Eparg

• 1Couch Surfer06:24
• 2Simple Instructions for Building a Catapult05:56
• 3Testing Grounds08:50
• 4Ballistic Trajectories04:57
• 5Spring Is Just Around the Corner07:15
• 6Oort Cloud08:23
• 7Sekstant05:09
• 8Kann08:20
• Total Runtime55:14

Info for Orter Eparg

Orter Eparg is a postmodern piano trio playing music about catapults, guitar players, couch surfing and minimalist composers.

Orter Eparg is a broken watch, a malfunctioning machine, a rusty, out of control piece of farm equipment.

Blindingly surrealist and melodically powerful, the band recounts the most unlikely, abstract stories.

The music is based on bass player Dan Peter Sundland's unique compositions, whose cross rhythms and layer based constructions encourages a solid, sound conscious interplay in different intersections between groove and free improvisation.

The trio has been active since 2008, and have so far been playing venues and festivals across Norway, including Molde Jazz Festival, Join the Circus and PØKK.

Kjetil Jerve, piano, Fender Rhodes
Dan Peter Sundland, bass
Andreas Wildhagen, drums, cymbals

Dan Peter Sundland
is a unique electric bass player and composer active in the jazz and improvising scenes in Norway and Berlin. His playing is set apart by his expressive, wide ranging playing techniques, including cello-like bowing and a varied palette of percussive colours.

His discography includes compositional work for his own eleven-piece Elevenette, the Berlin based improvising quartet Home Stretch and sideman work with Clara Haberkamp's piano trio, Arne Torvik's fusion band Northwestern sounds and more.

Dan Peter was born in Oslo, Norway, 15th July, 1986, and grew up in a village outside Trondheim, Norway called Børsa.

He started playing bass at age 14, and studied with bass players Andreas Bergsland and Mattis Kleppen.

He attended the jazz department of Sund Folk College 2005-06 and attained a bachelors degree in performing jazz at the jazz department of NTNU Music Institute in Trondheim in 2010.A European Jazz Masters degree (EUJAM) at the jazz department of NTNU Music Institute in Trondheim with exchange to Berlin Jazz Institute (Spring 2012) and Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen (Fall 2012) followed in 2013.

Teachers include Bjørn Alterhaug, Mattis Kleppen, Ole Morten Vågan, Mats Eilertsen, Michael F. Duch and Tor Haugerud.

Member of Midt-Norsk Ungdomsstorband (Middle-Norwegian Youth Big Band) 2004-2006. Member of big band S. Møller 2009-2010.

Lead Trondheim Improvisation Orchestra together with Peder Simonsen 2009-2010.

Received Geir Digernes memorial award in 2012 and Sparebank1 Jazz Talent Award 2013.

Nominated for ECHO Jazz Newcomer of the year 2017 with Clara Haberkamp trio.

Has been featured with musicians including Jim Black, John Hollenbeck, Axel Dörner, Tobias Delius, Hans Hulbækmo, Hanna Paulsberg, Eirik Hegdal, John Pål Inderberg and Tor Haugerud.

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