BOL is a musical smeeting between four improvising musicians with experience and influences from a lot of different settings;
Tone Åse has besides BOL- a long time background as member of the modern a capella group Kvitretten and later in TrondheimVoices , Livemariaband and Marilyn Mazur’s Future Song where she has explored both “bel-canto”, voice-experimentation and free improvisation, and not at least the fields in between. She is exploring and extending her instumental area with electronic processing on her voice and the use of sampling/loops.
Ståle Storløkken has experimented with sounds and soundscapes mainly by use of “synthezizers from the past” as his trademark, in settings as the band Supersilent and Elephant 9, the duo Humcrush , with Thomas Strønen, and Terje Rypdal’s Skywards. As a composer, he is often writing “improvised chamber music”; for BOL and string quartet he composed ”Interference harmony ” presented at the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival 2003, later re-arranged for a BOL and Trondheimsolistene, performed in 2006.
Tor Haugerud has since the early 90′s been developing his strong expression and trying out different kinds of drum “set-ups” through among others working with the “power-ethno”-group Transjoik, the free jazzgroup Gibrish, and lately his surrealistic music-perfomance-project misterYtor.