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Wibutee: Eight Domestic Challenges
ByIn many ways, this second release from Wibutee typifies Jazzland. The basic instrumentation of saxophones, bass and drums places Wibutee firmly within a jazz tradition, but the added elements of electronics and beats radically shift that tradition, creating "future jazz."
This music is derived from elements of dub, trip-hop, ambient and electronica but transcends all of them. Although there are solo instrumental contributions throughout, some of them individually remarkable (none more so than Kornstad's sax on "First There Was Jazz"), virtuoso soloing plays a comparatively small part in the totality. A persistent, bass-heavy pulse and sampled sounds are just as important to the overall soundscape. This is a collective music, rather than an individual music.
Anyone familiar with recent Jazzland would instantly recognise Eight Domestic Challenges as from the same stable. To know that an album is on Jazzland is rapidly becoming recommendation enough for some of us.
Track Listing
Into Shapes; Vibhuti; Herbs & Heights; First There Was Jazz; Up And Away; Dubelec; Last Stroke
Personnel
Hakon Kornstad, tenor sax, soprano sax, flutes, fluteonet; Per Zanussi, double bass, electric bass; Wetle Holte, drums, percussion; Sternklang, electronics; Gulleiv Wee, electronics
Album information
Title: Eight Domestic Challenges | Year Released: 2002 | Record Label: Jazzland Recordings