Home » Jazz Articles » Sinikka Langeland
Jazz Articles about Sinikka Langeland
Sinikka Langeland: Starflowers
by Martin Gladu
In Horizons Touched: The Music Of ECM (Granta, 2007), guitarist Steve Tibbetts writes about folk artists: “Sometimes they start a musical movement that perpetuates or re-forms, sometimes they birth a musical dead end. Without much extrapolation, the first part of Tibbett's affirmation applies equally to producer Manfred Eicher, acclaimed for his talent at creating unique genre-crossing collaborations, as it does to vocalist/kantele player Sinikka Langeland. Starflowers, Langeland's first effort for ECM, is a project based on Norwegian Hans Borli's poetry ...
Continue ReadingSinikka Langeland: Starflowers
by AAJ Italy Staff
Arve Henriksen è un mago della tromba, con un suono immediatamente riconoscibile che evoca antichi strumenti da mille e una notte. Anders Jormin, al contrabbasso, è un grande che ha suonato con i più grandi. Trygve Seim ha riportato in auge il suono robusto e sensuale dei sassofonisti del periodo classico, aggiornandolo con la tecnica dei microtoni. Ebbene, mettere questi fuoriclasse al servizio di un progetto come Starflowers, nel quale la vocalist scandinava Sinikka Langeland conferisce una veste musicale a ...
Continue ReadingSinikka Langeland: Starflowers
by John Kelman
ECM has always looked for new ways to interpret traditional music from different cultures. As far back as 1973, saxophonist Jan Garbarek's Triptykon used a traditional Norwegian folk song as the starting point for open-ended improvisation. More recently, British traditionalist Robin Williamson has teamed with artists normally associated with free improvisation for The Iron Stone (2007), combining original and traditional music with contemporary and centuries-old words, for some adventurous and often edgy free play that breaks down every barrier of ...
Continue Reading
