traditional balkan tunes,and slick commercial music mixed with Stockhausen. The album got very good rewiews from many contemporary music magazines as well as rock,folk and jazz magazines in Europe.
In 1998 he was asked to write music for a Norwegian festival; Vossajazz. He wrote some music and put together a band consisting of his colleague Jarle Vespestad (one of the most talented young drummers in Norway which also play in Farmers Market), Django Bates from England, and Ernst Reijseger from Holland. The music was performed in April 98, with a great success. The choice of musicians was made by a careful hand, because they each had one thing in common; they were into a lot of styles at the same time. The music was composed in a contemporary spirit, but contained elements from many different styles without being artificial.
This seems to be a highlight in S.C.’s career, and he has been working a lot with that ensemble after this. Another highlight was his release of the new record Farmers Market on the German label Winter & Winter, he toured Europe and Japan with this band in 2000. They got very good rewiews both on the album and the concert in magazines like The Wire, Rolling Stone etc. This year Farmers Market played at the worlds biggest jazz festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Hague, Holland.
He also playes with Dutch cello player Ernst Reijseger. They work as a duo playing only self written stuff in various improvisational folk styles.
Last year he studied Bulgarian polyphony in Bulgaria, and rural American Afro-Celtic music in the Appalachians, on a fee from the Norwegian cultural department. He is currently on a two year state fee to study Bulgarian traditional music. His