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The Roc

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2017
Track listing: The Seeds of Language; The Roc; Eternal Sunshine Creates A Desert; Kurd, Bayat, Nahawand To Kurd; Hijaz Train Station; Thurayya Railways; The Afrit; There Are Three Things You Cannot Hide: Love, Smoke And A Man Riding On A Camel; The Krøderen Line; All That Has Happened, Happened As Fate Willed.

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Article: Album Review

Daniel Herskedal: The Roc

Read "The Roc" reviewed by Geno Thackara


Here we have a title that's both fitting and misleading. In Arabian mythology, a roc is a large and dangerous bird of prey capable of sinking ships and feeding on elephants. Daniel Herskedal offers a pan-Asian chamber-jazz travelogue through some exotic landscapes with his second solo release on Edition Records, but there's nothing intimidating about it. ...

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Article: Album Review

Daniel Herskedal: The Roc

Read "The Roc" reviewed by Roger Farbey


The Roc is Norwegian tuba player Daniel Herskedal's follow-up album to his 2015 recording for Edition Records, Slow Eastbound Train which like its predecessor again features Eydolf Dale on piano and Helge Andreas Norbakken on percussion. However, that record also benefitted from the massive Trondheim Soloists chamber string orchestra. A pastoral beginning with “The ...


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