The EDVARD Prize in the Challenger category has been awarded to Sjur and Sturle Dagsland. The prize was presented during the Autumn Sabbath at Kulturkirken Jakob on Saturday afternoon.
/ 11/10/2022 / Kristian DugstadOn Saturday, October 8, TONO Sturle and Sjur Dagsland presented the EDVARD Prize in the Challenger category. The prize was presented by member of the EDVARD jury, Sten Ove Toft, during the Høstsabbat festival at Kulturkirken Jakob in Oslo.
Dagsland and Dagsland received the award for the works on the album Sturle Dagsland. They will return home to Stavanger with a trophy and a diploma designed by Magne Furuholmen, as well as 50,000 kroner.
- It sounds timeless, yet modern. And throughout the whole thing, the listener encounters a wild, heartfelt and honest voice that seeks the breadth of human experience through extremes. The truth lies in the margins, writes the jury in its justification.
The EDVARD Prize has been awarded annually by TONO since 1998, and is awarded in five categories to composers and lyricists who have created musical works of particularly high quality in the previous year. A highly qualified professional jury selects the winners.
– With the EDVARD Prize, we highlight some of the most beautiful music created in the previous year. The purpose is both to honor and thank individual creators, but also to raise awareness of the important work that composers, lyricists and songwriters do, says TONO's communications director, Willy Martinsen.
"With the works on the release Sture Dagsland, Sjur Dagsland and Sturle Dagsland have together created something as rare as a unique world beyond the one we normally live in. The vision seems strong and uncompromising. This album is neither an exercise in genre nor a schoolboy genre transcendence, – no – this is the lost adopted child of Björk on LSD, it is Aurora on nightmares and abstracted Korn. This is gnarled folk music with stadium rock potential and a seventh father in the house on the horn on the wall. This is the anger of a thousand young people in a singer's vocal cords and it is beautiful, scary, big and aggressive! But then suddenly also cold, delicate, painful, close. It sounds timeless, but modern. And all the way the listener encounters a wild, heartfelt and honest voice that seeks the breadth of human experience through the extremes. The truth lies in the marginal zone."
The jury for the EDVARD Prize 2021 has consisted of Torgny Amdam (NOPA, jury chair), Samsaya Sharma (NOPA), Kristin Norderval (Norwegian Composers' Association), Martin Rane Bauck (Norwegian Composers' Association), Ole Børud, (Independent), Sten Ove Toft (Independent), Oda Svendsby (Music Publishers) and Andrew Smith (Music Publishers).
