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Janice:  Hilde, I'm so excited to hear that you have a new CD about to be released.  Can you give us an idea of the content? Hilde: Thank you dear Janice, I’m more than excited myself and at the same time it’s like sending my child out in the world on its own for the first time. :) In my opinion this is my most personal and original album. I am taking you with me out on the ocean, you’ll be flying with the birds, diving with whales and much more. You’ll find beautiful ballads, and a very special, groove-based a capella composition called “The End – TBA”. On this album I have composed and written lyrics for seven out of nine tracks, done all the music-arrangements, I’m playing all instruments on 75 % of the tracks, and I did all vocals. The album is called 'Quiet Dreams' after one of the compositions.     On this recording I'm creating my own little universe.  Triggered by being asked to write the commission work ...

Jan.s: Norway has produced a number of unique Jazz artists. I first became aware of a number of them during the early 80's. Terje Rypdal, Jan Garbarek and Karin Krog to name a few but there were no doubt countless others. Would you share with us what you feel allowed the Norwegain Jazz scene to develop in such a rich and unique way? Hilde: Your last question is simple and easy, good “jazz-workers”. There lived a person in Norway named Randi Hultin. If it hadn’t been for her the story would have been different I think. She was close friends with all the greatest American jazz musicians and she managed to get them to visit Norway, doing concerts, playing with the Norwegian musicians – and she arranged jam sessions in her own house almost every night. She planted the seed for a lawn for all jazz musicians in Norway to walk on. That’s one of the main reasons. The other one is that every jazz musician in Norway worked with each other no matter age, generation, color or genre ...