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Norwegian jazz bassplayer maestro Mats Eilertsen recently released his album “Hymn For Hope” consisting of 13 new songs. “Solitude Central” is a live-recording from Oslo in March 2020, just after the first pandemic lockdown. He was lucky and challenged to get this opportunity to do several solo performances in that time, ofcourse mainly all alone in front of an non-existing-live audience, via video streaming. This record is in a different way, mode and mood than his previous acoustic solo-release “Short Stories” from 2007. This live-release was built upon the work he did with his “Reveries And Revelations”-album from 2019, but now performed live, without edits, processing and additions by fellow musicians and with a lot of improvisations.

Mats is one of the finest and most distinct bass players on the Norwegian jazz scene of today. He has a special warm and lyrical way of treating the bass, being steady and experimental at the same time, bringing it all together and yet showing openness and willingness, and constantly searching for new sounds. He has participated on over 100 album-recordings with a wide range of artists and many different label-imprints.

Mats Eilertsen has had a productive period the last few years with the release of the Mats Eilertsen Trio-album “And Then Comes the Night” (ECM 2019) – winning a Norwegian Grammy!, “Reveries And Revelations” (Hubro 2019), “Memorabilia” (NXN 2020) with Mats Eilertsen Trio together with Trio Mediaeval. Last fall he was also present on albums by Hakon Kornstad Trio (“For You Alone”, Jazzland), The Source (“Bend Them Down”, Grappa) and Trio Mediaeval (“Solarium”, 2L).

Tracklisting:

1. Opening Solitude
2. 2nd Solitude
3. 3rd Solitude
4. 4th Solitude
5. 5th Solitude
6. Closing Solitude