The Rosenborg Tapes的故事
买这张唱片（Vol I/II）是几年前在阳朔西街的某家小唱片店，买的原因则是更早以前在北京的新街口雪君偶然买到Ketil Bjornstad的Pianology。
这张音乐因为背负了个很煽情的故事——当年第一次录音的录音棚，要拆了，于是他最后一次坐在那家老钢琴前面即兴弹了一些音乐，不加剪辑地做成一套双张专辑，但最后录音室终于没有拆掉——而显得过于戏剧化了，简直不像ECM一贯作风。但是音乐本身，其实还如Ketil Bjornstad其他的演奏一样，平静，微澜。
以下是唱片封套里的话，应该算这个故事的权威版本。
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It was in fall 1997 I heard rumours that Major Studio, the old Rosenborg Studio in Oslo, had to be closed down.
It was a very sad news for me, and I immediately booked in myself for one day. I was not sure what to play. It was an atmosphere of melancholia. This studio was one of the most important studios in Oslo during the seventies and the eighties. Even Phil Collins visited this humble studio once. And all the most prominent norvegian and scandinavian musicians loved this studio very much; this very special studio, with the beautiful tree outside the window, in the street called Rosenborggaten. Much of my own music was first recorded in this studio; also my first recording for Polygram, with the drummer Jon Christensen, Bass-player Arild Andersen and guitarist Jon Eberson.
On this occation I played many of my old tunes. It became the live-recording "New Life". I also recorded live (without editing) my "20 Variations over Prelude & Fugue in C Sharp Minor by Johan Sebastian Bach".
By the time I didn't know that the studio actually, in the last minute, would survive. Now it is called the Fagerborg Studio. And I have been working there once more.
Because it is something special with this studio-room, the old Steinway Grand, the wooden walls. Like an echoe from all good spirits who have recorded music in this studio more than a quarter of century.
I hope it is possible to hear it - through the music.
Oslo, October 1999
Ketil Bjornstad
这张音乐因为背负了个很煽情的故事——当年第一次录音的录音棚，要拆了，于是他最后一次坐在那家老钢琴前面即兴弹了一些音乐，不加剪辑地做成一套双张专辑，但最后录音室终于没有拆掉——而显得过于戏剧化了，简直不像ECM一贯作风。但是音乐本身，其实还如Ketil Bjornstad其他的演奏一样，平静，微澜。
以下是唱片封套里的话，应该算这个故事的权威版本。
---------------------打字员的分隔线-------------------
It was in fall 1997 I heard rumours that Major Studio, the old Rosenborg Studio in Oslo, had to be closed down.
It was a very sad news for me, and I immediately booked in myself for one day. I was not sure what to play. It was an atmosphere of melancholia. This studio was one of the most important studios in Oslo during the seventies and the eighties. Even Phil Collins visited this humble studio once. And all the most prominent norvegian and scandinavian musicians loved this studio very much; this very special studio, with the beautiful tree outside the window, in the street called Rosenborggaten. Much of my own music was first recorded in this studio; also my first recording for Polygram, with the drummer Jon Christensen, Bass-player Arild Andersen and guitarist Jon Eberson.
On this occation I played many of my old tunes. It became the live-recording "New Life". I also recorded live (without editing) my "20 Variations over Prelude & Fugue in C Sharp Minor by Johan Sebastian Bach".
By the time I didn't know that the studio actually, in the last minute, would survive. Now it is called the Fagerborg Studio. And I have been working there once more.
Because it is something special with this studio-room, the old Steinway Grand, the wooden walls. Like an echoe from all good spirits who have recorded music in this studio more than a quarter of century.
I hope it is possible to hear it - through the music.
Oslo, October 1999
Ketil Bjornstad
