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Interpretations
By Jon Opstad
Label: New Canvas Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Ochre; Time and Place; Convergence; Sixty-Seven; City Leaves; September Light; Translation.
Jon Opstad: Interpretations
by John Kelman
For his second album as a leader and the third for his own New Canvas Records, British drummer Jon Opstad leaves behind the more overt ECM sensibility of 2004's Still Picture. Well, almost. Interpretations is ostensibly rooted in the music of late-1960s Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock. The references are clear; still, the fluidity, sense of ...
A Thought
Label: New Canvas Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Quintessentially; Hymn to Him; A Thought (solo); The Beautiful Room is Empty; N3 East; Song for My Sister; A Thought; Pisces; Oatlands Road Blues.
Nishlyn Ramanna: A Thought
by John Kelman
You've got to admire people with drive. Still only 22 years old, British drummer Jon Opstad has emerged in the space of a few years as a drummer, bandleader, producer and owner of his own label, New Canvas Records. New Canvas' first release was his own debut, last year's Still Picture--reflecting Opstad's interest in Norwegian music ...
Still Picture
By Jon Opstad
Label: New Canvas Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Fjord Song; Three Words; Still Picture; Quiet Place; Athabasca
Jon Opstad: Still Picture
by Eric J. Iannelli
Twenty-one-year-old British drummer Jon Opstad's full-length début is a remarkably accomplished effort, heavily indebted to the ECM sound--atmospheric, evocative, sparing--but nevertheless supremely listenable and full of promise. Beginning with the introspective and melancholic Fjord Song," the five tracks meld and blur into a unified sequence of sonic scenes and moods, fading and shifting like a photographic ...
Jon Opstad: Still Picture
by John Kelman
With its 35-year history of landmark recordings, it's no surprise that the German ECM label has spawned its share of imitators. But more importantly it has also encouraged more than one generation of artist, who see its cool, austere aesthetic as a starting point for new directions. From the Nordic cool of Jan Garbarek, the neo-classicism ...