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Erland Dahlen / Hallvard Hagen / Bjorn Charles Dreyer: wESTA MAN

Read "wESTA MAN" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The ambient soundscapes of the project wESTA MAN feature fascinating sounds that portray the dark world of the seas and seabed, engines, machines and ships around the Mtoni Marine Center in Zanzibar. Three Norwegian sound experimentalists devised this project, drummer Erland Dahlen, member of the Nils Petter Molvær Trio, who released last year an excellent solo ...

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2013 Enjoy Jazz Festival

Read "2013 Enjoy Jazz Festival" reviewed by John Kelman


Enjoy Jazz 2013 Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany November 6-14, 2013 It's always a treat to return to Heidelberg for Enjoy Jazz. As a very intended contrast to most jazz festivals, that compress a lot of music into a very short time, Enjoy Jazz's founding premise, when it was first conceived 15 years ago by ...

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ELBJazz Festival 2013: Hamburg, Germany, May 24-25, 2013

Read "ELBJazz Festival 2013: Hamburg, Germany, May 24-25, 2013" reviewed by John Kelman


ELBJazz FestivalHamburg, GermanyMay 24-25, 2013Attending a multitude of festivals each year, there's always the challenge of finding the hook--the thing that makes a festival different from any other. When it comes to Hamburg's ELBJazz Festival, now only in its fourth year, it's easy. A harbor town on the Elbe River, located just 70 ...

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Food: Quiet Inlet

Read "Quiet Inlet" reviewed by John Kelman


A reduction in personnel rarely results in a broader musical expanse, but that's just what happened to Food, since trumpeter Arve Henriksen and bassist Mats Eilertsen departed in 2004. Molecular Gastronomy (Rune Grammofon, 2008)--Food's first duo recording, though the use of guests fleshed the group out to a trio--was Food's most accessible album to date, without ...

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Knut Reiersrud: Gitar

Read "Gitar" reviewed by John Kelman


So much has been written about the Nordic sound that it's easy to forget, for most Norwegians--like anyone else--that their roots don't lay entirely within the tradition of their own country. In the case of the normally far-from-reticent Knut Reiersrud and the aptly titled Gitar, there are trace elements of traditional British folk music, the blues, ...


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