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Instrument: Trumpet

Album Review

Maridalen's eponymous 2021 debut for Jazzland Recordings was quite the breakout success. Earning strong coverage across the British music press, it proved that sometimes the media gods are with you. A host of other fine Norwegian albums made less impact back then, but Maridalen look determined to seize the moment. And, with their follow-up record Bortenfor, they have the ultra-cool audacity to go one better this time. The title translates as 'beyond, or going past' in terms of ...

Album Review

Maridalen: Maridalen

Read "Maridalen" reviewed by Gareth Thompson

by Gareth Thompson
May 20, 2021

The use of sacred spaces has long been a feature of jazz recordings. Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd made their classic Jazz Samba (Verve, 1962) album at All Souls Church, Washington DC, whilst a converted Greek Orthodox site played home to Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959). Among similar stories, the Norwegian act Moskus recorded at Risør Church, a cruciform wooden hall built in 1647. Now comes another Nordic band, who created their eponymous debut in the Maridalen church, ...