You | me on tour in Netherlands and Holland

We are doing some more You | me shows the coming months, starting December 5. at Bimhuis!
Guitarist & composer
We are doing some more You | me shows the coming months, starting December 5. at Bimhuis!
Happy to be bringing You | me back to Oslo for the first time since the premiere at Ultima festival in September 2018. The complete original line-up will be there at Blå on January 25.
Sound of Stockholm just announced their 2019 program, and I'm happy to be doing a solo show there on November 23. For more info on the program check here.
Very excited to be bringing the You | me band to Big Ears Festival in Knoxville next year, which is happening between March 26-29.
We had a really great trip to France with awesome shows at Festival Météo and at Festival Baignade Interdite! Next up is PUNKT on September 7.
Norwegian guitarist and composer Kim Myhr has been touring internationally since the early 2000s and has released several records under his own name. His album You | me (2017) was nominated to Nordic Music Prize, and received wide acclaim internationally. As a composer he has made music for Australian Art Orchestra, Canadian string quartet Quatuor Bozzini, Kitchen Orchestra and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra of Norway, and has collaborated with Jenny Hval (on the 2012 collaborative album “In The End His Voice Will Be The Sound Of Paper”, Tony Buck of The Necks (on the album “You | me”), Lasse Marhaug, Christian Wallumrød, poet Caroline Bergvall and many others. He has toured extensively the last fifteen years across Europe, Americas, Asia, and Australia. His last record Vesper with Australian Art Orchestra was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy in 2020 in the contemporary category.
“Kim Myhr is a master of slow-morphing rhythms and sun-dappled textures that seem to glow from the inside”.
- The Guardian
«A sonically adventurous record, beautifully listenable and immersive»
Nordic Music Prize Honorary Mention
«Kim Myhr is a master of slow-morphing rhythms and sun-dappled textures that seem to glow from the inside…It’s an album to bolster the spirits and ground the nerves. traveling music for big-sky vistas»
★★★★ The Guardian (UK)
"a tremendous piece of music»
BBC3
«delicate and suffused with beauty, yet exudes a power derived from the clarity of its creative vision. Truly, an ocean of sound.»
★★★★ MOJO (UK)
«surely a minor masterpiece»
Jazzwise
«a trance state between the acoustic and the electronic, where an alchemical late-hours lyricism is born.»
★★★★ MOJO (UK)
Årets sjuende beste norske plate
Dagbladet (NO)
"extravagants orages qui peuvent se transformer en transports shamaniques, dérives cosmiques et ruminations bruitistes, tout un capharnaüm extra-musical parfois effacé au profit de nappes cristallines semblables à d’évanescents mandalas sans cesse recommencés. […] comme des étonnements d’enfance.» Les Inrockuptibles (FR)
«A grotesquely beautiful paradox of sound»
SLUG magazine (US)
«arresting piece of work»
The Quietus (UK)
«Remarkable»
Jazzwise (UK)
«Compelling, riveting listening»
All about Jazz (UK)
«A delirious love letter to the 12-string acoustic guitar»
WIRE Magazine, Clive Bell (UK)
"One of Myhr's finest attributes is his courage to let the music unfold with guileless simplicity, so we focus tightly on the sound. Elsewhere he brings his devilish command of the guitar to bear."
Sydney Morning Herald, John Shand (AU)
«Simple, direct and utterly absorbing»
Fluid Radio (UK)
"An extremely attractive offering: open, considered and refreshingly heedless og trends".
Just Outside (US)
For high-res press photos, interview requests and other press enquiries, please contact Frøydis Bergheim Ruud at Grappa: froydis@grappa.no
Booking and other things: info@kimmyhr.com