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Jazz singer Eva Bjerga Haugen presents Stille Grender ("Quiet Villages"), a fantastic Christmas album made together with guitarist Morten Askildsen, trumpeter Simen Kiil Halvorsen and double bassist Thomas Bang. They all have in common that they love Christmas and jazz. This is what the musicians say about the Christmas album: "It is unpretentious. It's atmospheric. It's playful. There are vocals, guitar, trumpet and double bass. It is tradition and improvisation. It is known and unknown. And it is 'from all of us to all of you'." After several years in a row with their traditional Christmas concert in Skur 2 in Stavanger, they have now finally recorded a long-awaited Christmas album with their own and distinctive arrangements of the finest Christmas songs they know. Eva says this about making a new Christmas album: "We gave ourselves an almost impossible task... Namely to make an original Christmas record. But someone once said that 'I've never done that before, so I can definitely do it'. So we started by selecting the songs that we grew up with. Which we like best. And then we picked them apart, tried to find the core of why we are so happy with these particular songs. And then there was building the events around this, all the while focusing on the simple, the authentic, the honest. There is a power of its own, a warmth of its own, a fervor of its own in these Christmas carols. They don't shout, they don't scream. And so we have tried to the best of our ability to treat them with the utmost respect, and not drown them in too many decorations." - Eva Bjerga Haugen