Jazz Articles about Per Harald Ottesen

The Tronosonic Experience: The Tronosonic Experience

by Mark Sullivan
October 9, 2017

Norwegian quartet The Tronosonic Experience describes the music on their debut as “punk-jazz-avant-rock," which about covers it. Opener “Die Streif" comes storming in with a heavy bass line and an emphasis on the rock end of the spectrum, including blazing distorted guitar from Øyvind Nypan. It shows a completely different side of his playing from his recent modern jazz date Stereotomic (Losen Records, 2017). “Maelstrom" (the only song composed collectively instead of by bassist Per Harald Ottesen) ...