released june #10 2011
iknowwhatyoudidastrecords



keep movin - keep dreamin

with the first album, i am a singer / songwriter, i found myself -in hollywood. with nothing like the love i have for you, album numer two, i found love. more restless than ever, i packed my bag and returned to los angeles. finding myself and finding love was not enough. on keep movin - keep dreamin i went looking for more.



what started as an exciting and playful dream project in sunny california, became a complicated recording process and often felt more like a self-revealing nightmare as i got closer to the core, while the dark norwegian winter started to creep up on me.

in the end, keep movin - keep dreamin is still full of hope. by weighing dreams and reality, i feel closer to my dreams, whatever they are. tacky as it might seem, i believe more and more that that is my dream. to not know. to keep movin and to keep dreamin.

the album was recorded in three different studios. drums were recorded in los angeles with legendary drummer butch (eels, lucinda williams etc.) before returning to the newly built beautiful recordning studio, ocean sound recordings, on the isle of giske, to lay down the basics of the songs. the album was finished in my own little studio in oslo.



reviews

"what's insanely good is often called big music, but the largest thing about egil olsen's music is that his music is, in a way, so tiny."
5/6 -ostlendingen

"acoustic and tastefully arranged. though olsen's tender and characteristic voice is in the center, there's room for everything from strings and clarinets to steel guitar and tuba. and an extra point for upright bass."
5/6 -tronderavisa

"the lyrics are clever, at times vigorous, and very well written."
5/6 -smp

"egil olsen is one of the prettiest and most clever things we have."
4/6 -VG

"egil olsen has simply made the prettiest record we will hear this year."
-musikkbloggen



credits
words and music by egil olsen

recorded at our little mansion, oslo
ocean sound recordings, giske
butch recorded at the hobby shop, los angeles

drums and percussion: butch
drums on #11: klaus robert blomvik
upright bass: audun ellingsen
rhodes on #03 and #11: erlend slettevoll
steel guitar, banjo, dobro and mandolin: stig ulv
accordion on #02 #05 and #09: morten bollerud
tuba: kristoffer lo
clarinet: harald bugge
flute: siri hovde
violin and viola: karolin broosch
cello: kaja fjellberg pettersen
vocals on #02 #07 and #09: robert post
vocals on #02 and #09: morten myklebust
vocals on #03: esther buchmann

OSR recordings engineered by henning svoren and eyvinn magnus solberg
butch engineered by peter malick at the hobby shop
produced, recorded and mixed by egil olsen
mastered by svein erik åmås at audiofarm, ørsta





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