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New Year Bandcamp Discount
Happy New Year!
I released four albums in 2025, and I’m excited to share that more new music and projects are coming in 2026.
Enjoy a 10% New Year discount on my album releases with the code “newyear2026” — valid until January 31, 2026.
Thank you for listening and supporting independent music.
Warm regards,
Kjetil
Bandcamp link: https://opticalsubstanceproductions.bandcamp.com
Kjetil Husebø – Ontology of Silence
Ontology of Silence is the third and final album in my Interiors trilogy.
It explores silence, introspection, and inner presence through sparse electronic textures, gentle tonal fragments, and slow-unfolding atmospheres. The music invites a quiet, focused listening space — where silence is not absence, but a subtle, resonant form of expression.
Available now on Tidal, Apple Music, Spotify, etc:
Link: https://orcd.co/pre_ontologyofsilence
Bandcamp: https://opticalsubstanceproductions.bandcamp.com/album/ontology-of-silence
Kjetil Husebø
Synthesizers, samplers, electronics, compositions, mix & production at GrandisStudios, Oslo, 2021, 2022 and 2024.
Mastering: Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab, Oslo.
Cover design: Lucas Dietrich, Berlin.
Kjetil Husebø – Unseen Topographies
My new album Unseen Topographies.
Unseen Topographies is the second album in Kjetil Husebø’s Interiors trilogy. Exploring light, perception, and hidden inner maps, the music unfolds in luminous, spacious layers that suggest landscapes we can sense but never fully see. Built with synthesizers, samplers, and electronics, it creates an auditory terrain that is both subtle and expansive.
Available now on Tidal, Apple Music, Spotify, etc:
Link: https://orcd.co/pre_unseentopographies
Bandcamp: https://opticalsubstanceproductions.bandcamp.com/album/unseen-topographies
Kjetil Husebø
Synthesizers, samplers, electronics, compositions, mix & production at GrandisStudios, Oslo, 2025.
Mastering: Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab, Oslo.
Cover design: Lucas Dietrich, Berlin.
Kjetil Husebø – Oscillations of Memory
My new album Oscillations of Memory.
Available now on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, etc
Link: https://orcd.co/pre_oscillationsofmemory
Bandcamp: https://opticalsubstanceproductions.bandcamp.com/album/oscillations-of-memory
This album opens the Interiors trilogy with dark ambient textures, built from flickering layers, resonant tones, and unstable echoes of memory. It weaves together dark ambient, electroacoustic, and experimental elements to create an immersive journey through fragile atmospheres and ever-shifting sonic landscapes.
The title Oscillations of Memory refers to how memories are never stable, but always in motion. The word oscillations means swings, pendulums, or vibrations — movements back and forth that never settle into a fixed point. Memory works in much the same way: it shifts in form and intensity, vivid and near in one moment, dissolved or distant in the next.
At the same time, the title points toward the musical tools I use. In synthesizers, oscillators are the very core — generating waves and frequencies that form the basis of sound and texture. In Oscillations of Memory, these two perspectives meet: the unstable, living movements of memory, and the electronic oscillators that create the raw material of sound. The music thus becomes an image of both the fragility of memory and the perpetual oscillations of synthesis.
Kjetil Husebø
Synthesizers, samplers, electronics, compositions, mix & production at GrandisStudios, Oslo, 2025.
Mastering: Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab, Oslo.
Cover design: Lucas Dietrich, Berlin.
Kjetil Husebø – Interiors
Interiors – Three New Albums This Fall
This fall, I’m releasing Interiors — a trilogy of three new solo albums. These works are deeply personal explorations of the inner world, moving through themes of darkness and memory (Oscillations of Memory), light and perception (Unseen Topographies), and silence and introspection (Ontology of Silence).
“With Interiors, I wanted to explore the inner realm through sound. Setting the piano aside allowed me to work exclusively with synthesizers, samplers, and electronics, opening up a new sonic landscape. Instead of following traditional tonal or rhythmic structures, the music became about texture, movement, and unfolding — about creating spaces that breathe and shift over time.
Each album focuses on a distinct emotional or perceptual state: Oscillations of Memory delves into darkness and memory, Unseen Topographies explores light and perception, and Ontology of Silence turns inward toward stillness. Together, they form a sonic journey”
— Kjetil Husebø
Oscillations of Memory comes out September 5, Unseen Topographies on October 3, and Ontology of Silence on November 7.
All three albums are now available for pre-order on Bandcamp.
Pre-save links (Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, etc):
Pre-save Oscillations of Memory
Pre-save Unseen Topographies
Pre-save Ontology of Silence
Kjetil Husebø
Synthesizers, samplers, electronics, compositions, mix, production at GrandisStudios, Oslo.
Cover design: Lucas Dietrich, Berlin.
Mastering: Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab, Oslo.
Kjetil Husebø – Piano Transformed – Interspace
My new double album Piano Transformed – Interspace.
Available now on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, etc. https://orcd.co/pre_pianotransformedinterspace
Available digitally and as a 2CD digipack, complete with an 8-page booklet.
CD can be ordered here:
Bandcamp: https://opticalsubstanceproductions.bandcamp.com/album/piano-transformed-interspace
Platekompaniet: https://www.platekompaniet.no/kjetil-husebo-piano-transformed-interspace-cd
Big Dipper: https://bigdipper.no/optical-substance-productions/osp010/kjetil-husebø-piano-transformed-interspace-2cd
CDON: https://cdon.se/produkt/husebo-kjetil-piano-transformed-interspace-cd-27013d4d6b4e57d9/
Details:
Kjetil Husebø: Steinway Model B Grand Piano, Live Sampling, Electronics. Edits.
Recorded by Juhani Silvola at Ugla Lyd (Morten Qvenild’s studio), Nesodden, Norway, May 22nd – 24th 2024.
Mixed by Kjetil Husebø at GrandisStudios, Oslo, Norway.
Mastered by Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab, Oslo, Norway.
Design by Lucas Dietrich, Berlin, Germany.
Produced by Kjetil Husebø. Co-produced by Juhani Silvola.
Portrait photo booklet: Jo Michael de Figueiredo.
Liner notes: Tore Stavlund.
Supported by The Norwegian Composers’ fund (Det norske komponistfond).
Kjetil Husebø – Echoes Within
Available now on Apple Music, Tidal, Spotify, etc.
Link here: https://orcd.co/pre_echoeswithin
It’s the third single from my upcoming solo double album Piano Transformed – Interspace. Album release April 4th.
Pre-Save link here: https://orcd.co/pre_pianotransformedinterspace
Pre-Order via Bandcamp: https://opticalsubstanceproductions.bandcamp.com/album/piano-transformed-interspace
Kjetil Husebø: Steinway Model B Grand Piano, Live Sampling, Electronics. Edits.
Recorded by Juhani Silvola at Ugla Lyd Nesodden, Norway, May 22nd – 24th 2024.
Mixed by Kjetil Husebø at GrandisStudios, Oslo, Norway.
Mastered by Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab, Oslo, Norway.
Design by Lucas Dietrich, Berlin, Germany.
Kjetil Husebø – Cosmic connections
Available now on Apple Music, Tidal, Spotify, etc.
Link here: https://orcd.co/pre_cosmicconnections
It’s the second of three singles from my upcoming solo double album Piano Transformed – Interspace. Album release April 4th.
Pre-Save link here: https://orcd.co/pre_pianotransformedinterspace
Pre-Order via Bandcamp: https://opticalsubstanceproductions.bandcamp.com/album/piano-transformed-interspace
Kjetil Husebø: Steinway Model B Grand Piano, Live Sampling, Electronics. Edits.
Recorded by Juhani Silvola at Ugla Lyd Nesodden, Norway, May 22nd – 24th 2024.
Mixed by Kjetil Husebø at GrandisStudios, Oslo, Norway.
Mastered by Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab, Oslo, Norway.
Design by Lucas Dietrich, Berlin, Germany.
Kjetil Husebø – Listening to life
Available now on Apple Music, Tidal, Spotify, etc.
Link: https://orcd.co/pre_listeningtolife
It’s the first of three singles from my upcoming solo double album Piano Transformed – Interspace. Album release April 4th.
Pre-Save link: https://orcd.co/pre_pianotransformedinterspace
Pre-Order via Bandcamp: https://opticalsubstanceproductions.bandcamp.com/album/piano-transformed-interspace
Kjetil Husebø: Steinway Model B Grand Piano, Live Sampling, Electronics. Edits.
Recorded by Juhani Silvola at Ugla Lyd Nesodden, Norway, May 22nd – 24th 2024.
Mixed by Kjetil Husebø at GrandisStudios, Oslo, Norway.
Mastered by Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab, Oslo, Norway.
Design by Lucas Dietrich, Berlin, Germany.
Response – Kjetil Husebø – Emerging Narratives
Reviews & Feedback
- Jazzjournal
- Jazzjournal (best of 2024)
- Off Topic Magazine
- Salt Peanuts
- Dag og Tid
- FAZEmag
- Groove Magazin
- Jazzthetik
- Jazz thing (best of 2024)
- Stereo
- The Slow Music Movement
- Nettavisen
- Jazzmania
- Lira Musikkmagasin
- Disquiet
Radio & playlists
- NRK Studio 2
- Ò1 Sound / Speilráume
- Intervalles #311 – Equinoxe FM 12/11/24
- KEXP – Pacific Notions
Kjetil Husebø – Emerging Narratives. Featuring Arve Henriksen & Eivind Aarset
My new album «Emerging Narratives». Featuring Arve Henriksen & Eivind Aarset.
Available now on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, etc
Link: https://orcd.co/pre_emergingnarratives
Bandcamp: https://opticalsubstanceproductions.bandcamp.com/album/emerging-narratives
Kjetil Husebø: Synthesizers, Samplers, Live Sampling, FX, Electronics, Programming, Sound Design, Edits. Recorded and mixed at Grandis Studios, Oslo, Norway.
Eivind Aarset: Guitars, Samples and FX. Recorded at Nesodden, Norway.
Arve Henriksen: Trumpet, Samples, FX, French Horn, Tenor Horn, Clarinet, Flute.
Design: Lucas Dietrich, Berlin, Germany. Recorded at Mölnlycke, Sweden.
Mastered by Helge Sten, Audio Virus Lab, Oslo.
Music composed, recorded, produced and mixed by Kjetil Husebø between April 2022 and November 2023. Tracks co-composed and co-produced by Arve Henriksen and Eivind Aarset.
Track 4 «Nohtronica» composed, recorded, produced and mixed May 2021.
Supported by Fond for lyd og bilde (The Audio and Visual Fund), Komponistenes vederlagsfond (The Composers’ Remuneration Fund).
CD can be ordered here:
https://www.platekompaniet.no/kjetil-husebo-emerging-narratives-cd (Norway)
https://bigdipper.no/optical-substance-productions/osp009/kjetil-husebø-emerging-narratives-cd (Norway)
https://opticalsubstanceproductions.bandcamp.com/album/emerging-narratives (Wolrd Wide)
https://www.galileomusic.de/artikel/30167/Kjetil_Husebø_Emerging_Narratives (Germany)
Kjetil Husebø – Fading Luminescence. Featuring Eivind Aarset
Available now on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Bandcamp, etc.
Link: https://orcd.co/pre_fadingluminescence
Kjetil Husebø: Synthesizers, Samplers, Live Sampling, FX, Electronics, Programming, Sound Design, Edits.
Eivind Aarset: Guitars, Samples and FX.
It’s the third and final single from my upcoming album “Emerging Narratives” (featuring Arve Henriksen & Eivind Aarset).
The complete album is set to be released on September 27th.
Link: https://orcd.co/pre_emergingnarratives
Pre-order the full album here:
Cover art: Lucas Dietrich
Mastered by: Helge Sten.
Kjetil Husebø – Waves of convergence. Featuring Arve Henriksen & Eivind aarset
My new single «Waves of Convergence». Featuring Arve Henriksen.
Available now on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, etc
Link: https://orcd.co/pre_wavesofconvergence
Kjetil Husebø: Synthesizers, Samplers, Live Sampling, FX, Electronics, Programming, Sound Design, Edits.
Arve Henriksen: Trumpet, Samples, FX.
Eivind Aarset: Guitars, Samples and FX.
It’s the second single from my upcoming album “Emerging Narratives” (featuring Arve Henriksen & Eivind Aarset).
The album will be released on September 27th 2024.
Link: https://orcd.co/pre_emergingnarratives
Cover art: Lucas Dietrich.
Mastered by: Helge Sten.
Jordsvingninger
In collaboration with the Munch Museum, the record label Smalltown Supersound is releasing the double LP Jordsvingninger, in which 18 musicians have created songs inspired by works in the exhibition. Available on vinyl and digital.
Artists on the album: Deathprod, Barker, Lost Girls, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Arve Henriksen & Kjetil Husebø, Carmen Villain, Perila, rRoxymore, Actress, Lasse Marhaug, Johanna Orellana, Lindstrøm, André Bratten, Yoshinori Hayashi, Kelly Lee Owens, Anja Lauvdal, Eivind Lønning, Bendik Giske.
Kjetil Husebø – Nohtronica. Featuring Arve Henriksen
My new single «Nohtronica». Featuring Arve Henriksen.
Available now on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, etc
Link: https://orcd.co/pre_nohtronica
Kjetil Husebø: Synthesizers, Samplers, Live Sampling, FX, Electronics, Programming, Sound Design, Edits.
Arve Henriksen: Trumpet, Samples, FX.
It’s the first single from my upcoming album “Emerging Narratives” (featuring Arve Henriksen & Eivind Aarset).
The album will be released on September 27th 2024.
Link: https://orcd.co/pre_emergingnarratives
Cover art: Lucas Dietrich.
Mastered by: Helge Sten.
Response – Kjetil Husebø – Years of Ambiguity
Reviews & Feedback
- Aftenposten
- Aftenposten (web)
- Nettavisen
- Jazzenzo
- Jazz Journal
- Jazzwise
- inMusic
- Jazzthing.de
- Salt Peanuts
- Groove.de
- Komeda
- JazzMania
Radio & Playlists
- Soul & Jazz – The Cutting Edge
- HR2 – Jazz and More
- RUM – O Baile Dos Bombeiros
- Sondres Infinite Playlist
Kjetil Husebø – Years of ambiguity
New album release (CD + digital).
Label: NXN Recordings (Naxos).
Kjetil Husebø: Synthesizers, Samplers, Live Sampling, FX, Electronics, Programming, Edits. Recorded and mixed at Grandis Studios, Oslo, Norway.
Music composed, recorded, produced and mixed by Kjetil Husebø between April 2021 and February 2022. Recorded and mixed at Grandis Studios, Oslo, Norway.
Track 1 “Inhale” made in collaboration with Eivind Aarset and Arve Henriksen.
Track 4 “Reconciliation” made in collaboration with Eivind Aarset.
Track 7 ”Exhale” made in collaboration with Arve Henriksen.
Eivind Aarset: Guitar, Samples and FX. Recorded at Nesodden, Norway.
Arve Henriksen: Trumpet and Synthesizers. Recorded at Mölnlycke, Sweden.
Coverart by Lucas Dietrich.
Mastered by Morten Lund.
Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, etc
Response – Arve Henriksen & Kjetil Husebø – Sequential Stream
Reviews & Feedback
- Boomkat
- Boomkat (Best of 2022)
- Qobuz (Best of 2022)
- JazziNorge.no
- Dagsavisen
- Salt Peanuts
- Lira
- Jazzism
- The Slow Music Movement
- Europe Jazz Network
- Warm Visions
- MarlBank
- Stereopluss
- Soundohm (Best of 2022)
- Slow Fuse Sound (Best of 2022)
- VIOT (Best of 2022)
- Indie Rock Mag / IRM Netlabel (Best of 2022)
Radio & playlists
- BFF.fb
- Noodsradio
- Ivoox
- Qobuz
- Tidal
- Alde De Medianoche
- Crack Magazine
- Wort FM
- Tapeta Lucida
- Majjem Radio
- Surgery Radio
- Burl Veener / WVUD
- RTÉ Radio/ An Taobh Tuathail
- RTÉ Radio/ An Taobh Tuathail
- RTÉ Radio/ An Taobh Tuathail
- RTÉ Radio/ An Taobh Tuathail
- RTÉ Radio/ An Taobh Tuathail
- North State Public Radio / Tapeta Lucida
- Seoul Maemi
- Utility Fog
- Andy Kellman
- Casa Negra (Best of 2022)
- Rai Radio 3
- KEXP
- RTVE/Músicas Posibles
Kjetil Husebø featuring Eivind Aarset – reconciliation
My new single «Reconciliation» featuring Eivind Aarset.
It’s the second single from my upcoming album «Years of Ambiguity.» on NXN Recordings (Naxos).
Reconciliation available on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, etc.
Kjetil Husebø: Synthesizers, Samplers, Live Sampling, FX, Electronics, Programming, Edits. Recorded and mixed at Grandis Studios, Oslo, Norway.
Eivind Aarset: Guitar, Samples and FX. Recorded at Nesodden, Norway.
Coverart by Lucas Dietrich.
Mastered by Morten Lund.
Arve Henriksen & Kjetil Husebø – Sequential Stream
New album release (vinyl + digital). Debut album collaboration with the brilliant Norwegian musician and composer Arve Henriksen.
Label: Smalltown Supersound
Arve Henriksen: Trumpet, Synthesizers, Vocal, Electronics. Edits.
Kjetil Husebø: Grand Piano, Synthesizers, Samplers, Live Sampling, Electronics. Edits.
Composed and produced by Arve Henriksen & Kjetil Husebø.
Recorded and mixed by Kjetil Husebø (Grandis Studios, Oslo, Norway) & Arve Henriksen (Mölnlycke, Sweden).
Grand piano on Syntax recorded by Audun Kleive (Audio Pool, Skien, Norway). Mixed by Reidar Skår (Oslo, Norway). Grand piano on Seeding recorded by Mike Hartung (Propeller Music Division, Oslo). Mixed by Reidar Skår (Oslo).
Mastered by Helge Sten (Audio Virus Lab, Oslo). Cut by SST.
Artwork/design by Kim Hiorthøy.
Purchase vinyl and digital files via Boomkat
Kjetil Husebø featuring Eivind Aarset & Arve Henriksen – Inhale
My new single «Inhale» featuring Eivind Aarset and Arve Henriksen.
It’s the first single from my upcoming album «Years of Ambiguity.» on NXN Recordings (Naxos).
Inhale available on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, etc.
Kjetil Husebø: Synthesizers, Samplers, Live Sampling, FX, Electronics, Programming, Edits. Recorded and mixed at Grandis Studios, Oslo, Norway.
Eivind Aarset: Guitar, Samples and FX. Recorded at Nesodden, Norway.
Arve Henriksen: Trumpet and Synthesizers. Recorded at Mölnlycke, Sweden.
Coverart by Lucas Dietrich.
Mastered by Morten Lund.
Kjetil Husebø – Live at Nasjonal Jazzscene
My first live album! Purchase and listen now!
New solo album – Live at Nasjonal Jazzscene – due for release October 9th 2020.
Kjetil Husebø: Steinway C Grand Piano. Live sampling & Live Electronics.
Recorded at Nasjonal Jazzscene (The National Jazz Scene, Victoria) /
Tape to Zero festival on April 22, 2016, Oslo.
Engineer: Johnny Skalleberg.
Mixed by: Kjetil Husebø, Oslo.
Mastered by: Helge Sten, Audio Virus Lab, Oslo.
Cover design: Lucas Dietrich, Berlin.
Photo: Ruben Olsen Lærk.
Cat. no: OSP008.
Format: CD digipack, digital files.
Distribution: Musikkoperatørene (Norway) / Phonofile (digital – worldwide) / Forced Exposure (U.S) / Discovery Records (U.K) / Galileo (Germany).
New Concert Video – Live at Kampenjazz 15.9.2019
Live performance of the Piano Transformed project.
Grand Piano, Live Sampling & Electronics.
Kjetil Husebø – Live at Kampenjazz / Nordic Black Theatre & Cafeteatret (Oslo) September 15th 2019. Multi camera production by Odd Geir Sæther / Lighthouse Productions.
3 Quarks Daily about Piano Transformed
Check out this article about Post-Piano:
“While electronics can completely dominate the production of sound, creating performances that no human could possibly manage on their own, some musicians are using technology to augment their playing. Consider Norwegian pianist Kjetil Husebø’s ‘Piano Transformed,’ from the eponymous 2017 album. Husebø plays the piano but its sounds are then fed into electronics that heavily process the source material, creating a sort of diaphanous context that is at once part of and completely independent of the more conventional sounds to which we are accustomed.” Misha Lepetic, 3 Quarks Daily
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