Live Remix / «Triage» Album Release:

Erik Honoré w/ Harpreet Bansal

Erik Honoré, who produced and mixed Bjørn Charles Dreyer’s album «Fourth Wave and the Moon», releases his third solo album «Triage» on Punkt Editions in September. Elements from this album will be incorporated in his Live Remix of Dreyer’s concert.

After working for many years as a collaborator with artists like Jan Bang, David Sylvian, Sidsel Endresen, Eivind Aarset and Arve Henriksen, Punkt co-founder Erik Honoré released his first solo album “Heliographs” on the Hubro label in 2014. The album was positively received, Uncut Magazine highlighting its “artisan delicacy and nerve-tingling beauty”, and Dagens Næringsliv calling it “beautiful and inviting music which challenges the listeners’ traditional understanding of song structure”.

In 2017, Honoré released the follow-up, “Unrest”.

Apart from releases under his own name, Erik Honoré has contributed to around 50 recordings, notably “Uncommon Deities” by Jan Bang / Erik Honoré with David Sylvian, Sidsel Endresen and Arve Henriksen; the Punkt album “Crime Scenes”; “Punkt Live Remixes vol. 1” with Jan Bang, Jon Hassell and Sidsel Endresen; David Sylvian’s albums “Died in the Wool”, “The Blemish Remixes” and “Camphor”; and as a co-composer/-producer on several Arve Henriksen albums including “Chiaroscuro”, “Cartography” and “Places of Worship”.

Erik Honoré has performed live with, among others, Jon Hassell, Sidsel Endresen, Nils Petter Molvær, David Sylvian and Arve Henriksen. Together with Jan Bang, he has brought the Punkt concept to more than 25 cities around the world. He has also composed music for films and written three novels published by Norway’s largest publisher, Gyldendal.

Photo by Ruben Olsen Lærk

Harpreet Bansal

Violinist/composer
Harpreet was born in Oslo to Indian parents. She started learning ragas with her father, Guru Harbhajan Singh Bansal, when she was two years old.

She later studied European classical music at the Norwegian Academy of Music and went on to study North Indian classical music at the same institution under the tutelage of Ustad Ashraf Sharif Khan and privately with Dr. L. Subramaniam.

Harpreet has enjoyed a long and diverse freelance career, leading her own projects as well as collaborating with outstanding musicians of various genres. She composes music for her own ensembles like Harpreet Bansal Band and Harpreet Bansal Trio, and she is regularly commissioned to compose for Western vocal and instrumental ensembles, orchestras, and, recently, a children’s theatre production. She has made several appearances on Norwegian National TV and Radio, and she has appeared as a soloist with such ensembles as the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Trondheim Soloists.

Harpreet’s music straddles the border between raga, jazz and Western contemporary classical idioms in what has been called ‘a unique and radical approach to the raga genre.’

She has received glowing reviews in the Norwegian and international music press, and her second album Samaya was nominated for Spellemannprisen (Norwegian Grammy Awards) for 2018. With her band she has also released the albums Chandra (2015) and Movements (2020) on the Jazzland/OKWorld label. Movements received the prestigious NOPA (Norwegian Society of Composers and Lyricists) award in 2021. Her latest album Parvat was released on the Lawo Classics label in 2022 and was nominated in six categories for the OPUS Musikpreis. In recent years Harpreet has increasingly composed music for the screen and stage, including the scores for the award-winning 2023 movie «Hør her’a», the play «Sheherazade» in Kristiansand Theater, as well as documentaries and commercials.