saxophonist / vocalist / composer / improviser

Album with Nikolaj Hess "By this River"
out to stunning reviews:

-Modernistic, mystical and superior duoalbum. 5 stars of 6, Jyllandsposten,DK

- selected one of the 5 best Danish jazzreleases in 2006. Information, DK

- Wonderful spontaneous improvising, telepathic musical communication and inner strength.
Fantastic delivery. 9.5 of 10, Musica, Greece

- It is like Sissel and Nikolaj have put all the notes and words from the composition into some alchemical oven, allowing them to melt and brew into some primordial glue from which they’ve extracted a new essence
for which they are the sole guardians.
The notes gently fall over each other like the ripples at the edge of a lake.
Songs that draw you into a reverie like the best lullabies and folk tales. Cyclic Defrost Magazine, Australia

NEWS:

Refuge Trios new album out on Winter & Winter - artwork by S.V. Pettersen.

Exhibition of monoprints at Galleri Carrie, Levanger, 1.-30. November 2008.

New duo album with Nikolaj Hess to be released on Calibrated, January 2009.

New trio album with Mikkel Ploug & Joachim Badenhorst to be released on Songlines, April 2009.