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Farvel (established 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish/Norwegian experimental jazz band. It was formerly known as Isabel Sörling Group and Isabel Sörling Farvel.

Biography
Farvel was created by Isabel Sörling to participate in a national Swedish Music Academy competition in 2010, representing Högskolan för scen och musik, Gothenburg. They went on to win the competition and were then qualified for Young Nordic Jazz Comets - a competition between represents of all the Nordic Music Academies, held in Birdland Jazz Club, Helsinki 2010. They won the finals, and were granted a tour on Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands as a reward. The tour took place in april 2011. They were also invited to perform at the 12 points! Festival in Dublin - a festival showcasing young, talented jazz acts form all across Europe.

In september 2011 they recorded their highly acclaimed debut album "Isabel Sörling Farvel" during two days in Studio Epidemin, Gothenburg. In February, during mixing the album, it was announced that the band was changing their name to "Isabel Sörling Farvel" - inspired by the southernmost part of Greenland - Kap Farvel (Cape Farewell, Greenland).

The album was released on Harald Haerter´s Swiss label, Unit Records, in april 2012. Their release concerts were held at Nefertiti Jazz Club in Gothenburg and Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene in Oslo, Norway.

REVIEW::::

September 2012 they performed at Fasching Jazz Club in Stockholm, as a part of Stockholm Jazz Festival, and also later at Umeå Jazz Festival. John Kelman of All About Jazz was present at the festival in Umeå and was clearly impressed by their performance: "Winner of the 2010 Young Nordic Jazz Comets, singer Isabel Sörling and her group -[...]-delivered an early evening set that will surely go down as one of Umeå 2012's best shows.

Present was also Bugge Wesseltoft, musician and label manager of Jazzland Recordings. Thrilled by the young musicians he would later turn out to be an important collaborator with the band.

In november 2012 Isabel Sörling Farvel was awarded the prize "Jazzkatten - Newcomer of the Year" at the annual galla for Swedish jazz music, held at Fasching Jazz Club in Stockholm, hosted by the national Swedish Radio P2. Broadcasted live and with a full audience of the established jazz community of Sweden present at Fasching, the event turned out to be somewhat of a breakthrough for the band, and also for the singer Isabel Sörling, in Sweden.

February 2013 the band played at By:Larm, under the banner "Bugge Presents" - a annual concert night at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene in Oslo, curated by Bugge Wesseltoft, consisting of bands he, personally, treasures. Other acts were Anna von Hausswolff, Mopti (band) and Amina Sewali. Farvel once again received splendid cancer reviews:

''"To summarise, my best festival experience would be the magical ensemble play of Isabel Sörling Farvel, Philco Fiction's dreamy pop stage show and the insane precision, power and presence of Shining (Norwegian band)." - Svein Magnus Furu, Jazznytt.''

In April the band went on their first European tour, playing concerts in Germany, France, Austria and in Switzerland making their debut on Jazz Club Moods in Zürich.

The summer of 2013 Isabel Sörling Farvel did a week long residency in Ørland, Norway, focusing on creating new material for their second album, Rök.


 * galla fasching
 * nytt album spil inn oktober 2014
 * bytte navn - kollektivet
 * kollektivet usunt?)
 * årets gruppe
 * turne
 * intervju isabel/europa
 * östtomta:
 * elektronikk, åpen approach, demokrati
 * release
 * LONDON
 * LONDON

"Scandinavian sextet Farvel return with a perfect follow-up to their acclaimed Jazzland debut, "Rok".

"Östtomta", taking its name from where it was recorded in a temporary studio, is an album filled with daring experimentalism, arrangements that break free from convention, cunning artifice that has an infectious quality more readily associated with pop music, nebulous ambience that juxtaposes with urban freneticism. An eerie beauty pervades all, with Isabel Sorling's voice leading it in delicate weaves or furious cross-stitching when necessary, her versatility matched by the context-sensitive playing of her bandmates.

Divided into four sections, each representing the four elements, the album's transitions of tone and texture are sometimes almost imperceptible, and at others almost jarring. The recording marks multiple steps forward for the group, each piece charged with its own dramaturgy, and each a landmark in the overall soundscape of the album as a whole, and illustrates a bold move towards merging the organic and the electronic.

Recorded live, a free jazz spirit charges the album's atmospherics with an electrical vitality and urgency that demands attention, whether through sparse interjections or the full ensemble driving forwards with an unstoppable intensity." - Bugge Wesseltoft

Band members

 * Isabel Sörling - voice, electronics
 * Otis Sandsjö - saxophone
 * Kim Aksnes - trumpet, electroacoustic, synth
 * Henrik Magnusson - piano, synthesizers
 * Alfred Lorinius - double bass
 * Carl-Johan Groth - drums

Honors

 * 2010: Won the competition Young Nordic Jazz Comets
 * 2012: Won "Jazzkatten: Newcomer of the Year" award
 * 2016: was nominated "Jazzkatten: Best group of the Year"

Discography

 * 2012: Isabel Sörling Farvel (Unit Records)
 * 2015: Rök (Jazzland Recordings)
 * 2017: Östtomta (Jazzland Recordings)