Alf Terje Hana

Alf Terje Hana, aka Athana

Guitarist/composer from/living in Stavanger Norway

Started playing guitar, late sixties, in his own bands like Crystal, Wasaband, Timebeat, and Athana since 2000. Often mentioned by critics, to be in the same landscape as Robert Fripp and Jeff Beck. Have 18 critically acclaimed Ahana albums so far.

Alongside with his own music, often used as a sideman on more than 80 albums.

Also involved in film-scores and comercial soundtracks for the industri and oil companies.

Collabrated with artists like: Sidsel Endresen, Eivind Aarset, Andrew D'Angelo, Mungolian Jetset, Sternklang, Lingouf, Überzone, KAOSS 99, Randi Tytingvåg, Werner Cee, Gary Husband, Jody Linscott and Stewart Copeland (The Police) with The Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, both on stage, and releases.

Received Art Scholarship 2017 Stavanger Kommune.

The overall sound and music is founded in the electroacoustic, experimental, cinematic, ambient landscape.

Other active projects are : Athana/Andreasen, Sonarophon, Broken Standards Orchestra, Werner Cee ”Torrent” in Germany.

Gary Husband & The Trackers.

-From time to time taking guitar classes at AKKS.

-Worked at Rogaland Teater in the play ”MOR” autumn 2011.

- Has his own signature guitar effect series produced in USA.

“Athana Signature Overdrive, Distortion”.

- Composed music for the big scale outdoor concert, “Tou Tower” project with 48 guitarists, the summer of 2011. Later performed in Oslo June 2013,

on the New Music Festival.

- Athana was represented at the Numusic Festival 2011, opening concert at Folken.

- Collabrated with Fittings & Flanges (30 drums/perc.Students) for the opening of the new concerthouse in Stavanger. Performed in a scaffold 22/9-12

- Did the concert ”Athana Symphonic Experience”, 8.March 2013. With the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and guest Stewart Copeland. Later released as a Bluray and CD November 2013. Supported by Kulturbyfondet.

- Working with the german multiartist Werner Cee in September 2014, where we performed the material at Maskinhallen Tou Scene, later released as a double album 2015.

- Collaborating Werner Cee in Germany with the project ”Torrent”, for recording and touring. And now in Gary Husbands new band ”The Trackers” from 2022 with TBC on bass. Played at the Maijazz festival 2018 with Athana/Jody Linscott & Gary Husband. Also landing as a release in spring 2019.

Alf Terje Hana
phone +4790121226 [email protected]

http://www.athana.no
http://soundcloud.com/athana

New music from Alf Terje Hana, Agah Bahari, Nili Brosh and European Mantra

by Len Davis
June 18, 2023

New music from Turkish pianist Afshin Alizadeh, guitarist Nili Brosh and from Norway Alf Terje Hana from Garden Of Bliss. Persian Canadian guitarist Agah Bahari with The Second Sight Of Mind, and young Italian guitarist Matteo Mancusco with his latest single. From Greece the band Nanot, and from Austria Origina1Nerd. The Under The Reefs Orchestra fom Belgium and Hungarian band European Mantra with bassist Tama Barabas.Playlist Ashfin Alizadeh “Fellowship" from Fellowship (Lin Records) 00:00 Nili Brosh “Lavender Mountains" ...

Liner Notes

The Trackers featuring Gary Husband & Alf Terje Hana: Vaudeville 8:45

by Mike Jacobs
January 26, 2023

What appears next on a resumé as weighty as Gary Husband's is always a matter of musical interest. Even with long and satisfying associations with legends like John McLaughlin and Allan Holdsworth, the talented drummer/keyboardist continually seeks different worthy and intriguing paths to explore--whatever his vehicle of expression. So when his latest project is co-led by a comparatively under-the-radar musician--in this case, Norwegian guitarist Alf Terje Hana--additional curiosity ensues. To that end, the story of their collaboration begins with both ...

Interview

Alf Terje Hana: The Further Edge

by Mike Jacobs
August 18, 2022

Unless you hail from jny: Norway, chances are you haven't heard of (or are just hearing about) guitarist Alf Terje Hana. With a music career stretching back into the '70s and a sound that's as personally stylized and cutting-edge fresh as anything birthed in the 21st century, Hana's music and name are just starting to circulate in ears outside his homeland. This is due in no small part to Hana—and his group Athana—fortuitously catching the attention of musicians like Stewart ...