Zakarias Meyer Øverli

Riversun is the Norwegian duo consisting of vocalist Bethany Forseth-Reichberg and saxophonist Zakarias Meyer Øverli. Together with their band consisting of Håvard Aufles (Trondheim jazz orchestra), Ola Øverby (Fieh) and Joel Ring, they blend together impulses from jazz, pop and hiphop.

The duo has played together for several years in the band tigerstate, but had for a long time wished to create something new with Zakarias’ jazz background and Bethany’s pop/rock background. The collaboration has lead to the making of a whole album, soon to be recorded, and the music released in the course of 2025.

The music is greatly inspired by the honest and pure music of Susanne Sundfør, to the more groovy and powerful music by Michael Brecker and Cocteau Twins. With pulsating and dans worthy rhythms, Zakarias uses the saxophone as an accompaniment instrument and play chord progressions that Bethany effortlessly can sing over.