Knut Bjørnar Asphol
Norway
 Knut Bjørnar Asphol
 Knut Bjørnar Asphol
With more than 20 years of experience as a professional musician, music producer, mastering engineer, and song writer, Knut Bjørnar Asphol has worked with numerous bands and artists within a variety of genres...
Through the midst of playing the gothic rock of Postscriptum, and simultaneously producing commercial music, Asphol found new inspiration from the emerging Scandinavian jazz movement. Releases such as Bugge Wesseltoft's "New Conception of Jazz", and Nils Petter Molvaer's "Khmer" were particularly influential. Massive Attack's 1998 release "Mezzanine" quickly became one of his favorite records, and further established his new found interest in combining a variety of genres and sounds from samples, beats, and guitars...
Asphol's latest album, "Tabloid Red", was released in February 2016. It is an ambient album best described as reminiscent of the classic works of Brian Eno. On the nine tracks of "Tabloid Red", Asphol's guitar playing is transformed into mostly spherical soundscapes, some – as with "The Silver Thread" – featuring everyday sounds, or else with percussive elements worked into the mix by way of sampling and programming. The album is produced by Jan Bang and was recorded in his studio in Kristiansand, Norway. Erik Honoré mixed the album and did some additional sampling.
"Tabloid Red" is Knut Bjørnar Asphol's most experimental work to date. It is an ambient gem of solemn beauty, one that requires a great deal of time and idiosyncratically leads us to rediscover the beauty of slowness.
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