Results for "AMP Records"

The Defector

Label: AMP Music & Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Defector; Perfect Hindrance; Undone; Moment Gained; Introduction to Without a Voice; Without a Voice; Here (for Chicca); Overlap; Not My Country.

Henry Spencer: The Defector

by Neil Duggan
September 26, 2023

In 2011, trumpeter Henry Spencer won the Best Newcomer Award at the jazz festival in the Wiltshire town of Marlborough; he went on to win the Emerging Excellence Award from Help Musicians UK in 2014. Sometimes these awards add extra pressure or, as is the case here, propel the musician to new heights. He climbs very ...

Mr Sands Is In The Dressing Room

By Calle Stenman

Label: AMP Music & Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Teater; Jazzkaban; Oh Me; Balladen Om En Trollkarl; Colombia; Dannes Blues; Oslo’s Nuts; Det Ar Over Nu.

The Calle Stenman Quintet: Mr Sands Is In The Dressing Room

by Chris May
November 27, 2019

Welcome to the debut album from the self-proclaimed “roughest jazz group in Sweden," led by trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer Calle Stenman. By rough, Stenman's original Swedish text probably meant something akin to “raucous," for there is nothing untutored or blemished about the album, which has been carefully crafted. Four of the tunes—the hard boppish “Jazzkaban," post-boppish ...

Silent Fires

Silent Fires is a cross-genre intermixture of lyrics and acoustic-electronic fragments, all merged into written and improvised soundscapes. Their debut album #Forests is a collective exploration around the theme of spirituality in its multiple meanings. The band reunites four young emerging talents from the European improvised music scene: singer Karoline Wallace, trumpeter/soundscaper Hilde Marie Holsen, violinist Håkon Aase and pianist Alessandro Sgobbio. Silent Fires performs and improvises on stage with contemporary dancer Synne Garvik, offering a multi-art experience of improvised music and realtime choreography.

Anachromysticism

By Russell Schmidt

Label: AMP Music & Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: At Time’s End; Anachromysticism; Descent; Conscience; Fortnight With Ferguson; Will She Be Revealed To Me; Bad Idea; Mediate; Percolate; Freeze Tag.

Russell Schmidt: Anachromysticism

by C. Michael Bailey
July 18, 2013

Pianist/composer Russell Schmidt takes acoustic jazz right to the edge of where it is supposed to be. Intelligent, melodic, and harmonically grounded, Schmidt's sound is fresh and invigorating. Schmidt is a faculty member at the School of Music, University of Utah. Anachromysticism is his second recording, following 2007's Season Of Change (Orchard Records). Where Season Of ...