Agnes Buen Garnås & Jan Garbarek

The Profile

A Norwegian collaboration between folk singer Agnes Buen Garnås and jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek. Their work presents medieval Norwegian ballads reimagined with saxophone, electronics and percussion, yielding an atmosphere of suspended, hypnotic beauty.

Both artists are Norwegian; Garnås is a traditional folk singer, and Garbarek is a jazz saxophonist. Together they recorded Rosensfole (subtitled “Medieval songs from Norway”), blending voice with saxophones, synthesizers and electronic percussion.

A glowing review celebrates Rosensfole as a hypnotic fusion of medieval Norwegian folk singing and ambient-leaning jazz. Agnes Buen Garnås’s clear yet dark voice meets Jan Garbarek’s saxophones, electronics, and percussion. The music emphasizes travel and mixture of traditions, with refrains and atmospheres that feel timeless. Track highlights include the long, entrancing “Margit og Targiei Risvollo.”