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One of the basic principles of physics holds that materials can respond to force in three ways: elastic (reversible), plastic (irreversible), or viscous (progressive over time). Combining all three, the possibilities are limitless and hard to master. IDIOTEK's material is mastered, and it explores the domain of viscoelasticity. Time stretches and contracts at the whim of the polyphonies and polyrhythms. Nothing is irreversible, but time can do a great deal. IDIOTEK is the debut album by guitarist and ...

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Amalie Dahl's Dafnie EXTENDED: Live at Moldejazz

Read "Live at Moldejazz" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
June 17, 2026

Over the course of a mere five years, Danish saxophonist Amalie Dahl has garnered well-deserved praise as a bandleader, improviser, and composer. A year after releasing the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Står Op Med Solen (Sonic Transmissions, 2024), Dahl expanded her quintet Dafnie to a 12- member combo. They appeared live at the Norwegian Moldejazz Festival. The resulting recording is at once earthy and sophisticated, with a sublime balance of stimulating dissonance and captivating mellifluence. The seven tracks are ...

Album Review

EVIDENCE: Evidence

by Daniel Mège
June 2, 2026

Evidence lives up to its title very well. A lot of music in this fairly short album that makes itself heard with surprising simplicity. EVIDENCE is a quartet: reeds, trombone, cello and drums. An unusual formation, but one that recalls Henry Threadgill's Zooid from 2015 onwards (without the guitar): In For A Penny, In For A Pound (Pi Recordings, 2015) and Poof. Sol Léna-Schroll (alto saxophone and clarinet) is Threadgill, Jørgen Bjelkerud (trombone) is Jose Davila, Joel Ring ...

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Ingeborg Gravem Sollid: The Aftermath

Read "The Aftermath" reviewed by Daniel Mège

by Daniel Mège
May 22, 2026

Some albums feel like an invitation to join a benevolent planet where things are effortlessly explained through poetry. So does The Aftermath (Fjordgata Records, 2026), where a sense of well-being rapidly settles in, nourished by the beauty of the compositions and the sustained intelligence of the interpretation. The group is a quartet led by vocalist Ingeborg Gravem Sollid, who graduated in 2023 from the prestigious jazz programme (Jazzlinja) at the University of Trondheim. Before this first album under ...