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Daniel Herskedal: Voyage
by Geno Thackara
You know what they say: nothing opens doors and wins people over like playing an instrument. It can make the most unlikely artist into a star. It may seem like rock guitarists or charismatic saxophone players get most of the attention, but learn to handle a tuba and it can really take you anywhere. Maybe people don't quite say it like that, but it's still proven true for Daniel Herskedal. Voyage continues a scintillating travelogue that follows on ...
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by Roger Farbey
Daniel Herskedal's third release for Edition Records is no less intriguing than his first two, Slow Eastbound Train (2015) and The Roc (2017). It's tempting to summarise the album as “pastoral," but there's a lot more to it than that solitary adjective. Granted, tunes like “The Horizon" and “Molly Hunt's Seagulls" really are pastoral, dreamlike, and evocative of the nautical imagery central to the album's theme. But “Batten Down The Hatches," the opener, is no tranquil outing. Herskedal's ...
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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. Instead The Roc is a vivid experience both adventurous and inviting.The folk roots of Herskedal's native Norway are certainly evident and there's ...
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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 Seeds Of Language" belies the nature of the ensuing tracks, things taking a more overtly oriental turn on the title track and beyond. Specifically, ...
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by Bruce Lindsay
Sometimes, album titles tell all: sometimes they tell little or nothing. Slow Eastbound Train sits somewhere in between. Train? No obvious examples. Eastbound? Hmm. Slow? That pretty much describes the pace of much of the music on this album, by Norwegian musician and composer Daniel Herskedal. But none of these three words come close to describing the grace, inventiveness and beauty of this lovely recording. Herskedal plays tuba and bass trumpet, both with a fluidity and melodic strength ...
read moreDaniel Herskedal - Marius Neset: Neck of the Woods
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nata nel 2008 da un'intuizione del pianista Dave Stappleton e del fotografo Tim Dickenson, Edition Records con oltre trenta pubblicazioni è andata affermandosi come una delle più interessanti testimonianze della scena britannica, tra vecchie conoscenze (Keith Tippet, Elton Dean, Paul Dunmall) e nuovi talenti (Matthew Bourne, Dave Stappleton, Ivo Neame). Con Neck of the Wood l'etichetta esce dai propri confini per registrare l'incontro tra Marius Neset, sassofonista norvegese balzato agli onori della cronaca a soli venticinque anni con il pluripremiato ...
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by Ian Patterson
Saxophone and tuba duos have something in common with hens' teeth, so tubaist Daniel Herskedal and saxophonist Marius Neset's collaboration is already noteworthy for its pioneering spirit alone. Herskedal and Neset--former students of Copenhagen's Rhythmic Conservatory and band mates in pianist Django Bates StoRMChaser--have, however, crafted music so sublime that it's a wonder tubiasts and saxophonists aren't a dime-a-dozen. Drawing from the Norwegian folk tradition and classically influenced European church music, the result is a recording that has the haunting ...
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