In the Country, Slettahjell & Reiersrud´s third album Remembrance is a unique feminist Norwegian music project rooted in the strong poets based on the three English Brontë sisters and American Emily Dickinson, who wrote poems on each continent nearly 200 years ago. Brontë and Dickinson had a huge production of high quality poems, often quite emotional, which still today hits home.
From each side of the Atlantic these authors points to each other in a quite supplementary way, which gives root to a beautiful and deep dialogue in the music. This dialogue transforms into a new dimension when two of Norway´s finest vocalists Solveig Slettahjell and Sidsel Endresen voices this grand project.
The band, who´s core is the piano trio In the Country, comprised of pianist and composer Morten Qvenild, bassist Roger Arntzen and drummer Pål Hausken, has since 2014 teamed up with vocalist Solveig Slettahjell and guitarist Knut Reiersrud, and released the same year their Norwegian grammy nominated live-debut-album Norwegian Woods on the German label ACT, which was recorded at Berlin Philharmonic hall at the concert series Jazz at the Philharmonic. The band has since their debut performed throughout Norway, in addition to festivals and concert halls in Finland, Germany, Austria and the US. They released their first studio album Trail of Souls in 2015, and ten years later - in January 2025 - they are finally releasing their grandiose album Remembrance, on the strong Norwegian label Jazzland. About the album we say - it´s a tribute to all daughters, mothers and women!
