Hello! I just made my first Christmas album, on the norwegian record label KKV. They asked me to arrange some traditional songs, and i´m playing doublebass, piano, drums, guitar, vibes and trumpet. Check it out on http://www.kkv.no/. Merry christmas!
M

Mathias Eick Quartet is the winner of the Bylarm and Statoil Hydro grant!
http://www.statoilhydro.com/heroes/no/bylarm/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.bylarm.no/pages/nor/166-statoilhydrostipendet

"The Door" nominated for Norwegian grammy! The party will be in Oslo the 24th of january, i..m very excited...
M

A nice message to everybody living far away from a record store, my album The Door is now out on Itunes music store! Enjoy!
Mathias

"The Door" is in it..s second week on the Norwegian pop charts VG lista, first week running as 16, this week 32!

Link to Norwegian site Platekompaniet:
http://www.platekompaniet.no/cdproduct.asp?id=1757979&cookie%5Ftest=1

ECM album "The Door" is out on ECM today May 5th in Norway. Germany and France in June, Usa and Asia in the autumn.
The musicians on the album is Mathias Eick, Jon Balke, Audun Kleive, Audun Erlien and Stian Carstensen.

Sunday 24/3-08
Hello again, today we..re in Stuttgart in Germany. This is the home city of Porsche cars, amazing..! We..ve played in Aubagne and Orthez since the last time I wrote a blog, 2 nice gigs with a great audience. The gig tonight is at a quite small club, with room for about 200 people. Tomorrow Trygve and I travel back to Norway, and stay for 4 days. Then it..s off to Martinique! There..s been some hard working days now with travelling from 7-8 each morning until souncheck and gig, so it..ll be great with a few days off.

Thursday 20/3-08
Tonight, we played in a big theatre in Saint Brieuc. Beautiful town by the sea, we had a walk in the city as we often do... The gig 2 days ago in Quimper (pronounced camper) was great too. There we had a day off as well. We went to the local swimming hall and Trygve and Marcin are the best swimmers in the band, no doubt! Quimper also had a great cathedral, and a charming old town. Today we went from Quimper via Rennes to Saint Brieuc. In the audience tonight there were a lot of Manu fans, and that always makes it fun to play.