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Elephant9: Live at the BBC

Read "Live at the BBC" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 6, 2012

Despite the re-emergence of vinyl as a once-again acceptable medium, it's still bigger in some countries than others. In Norway, there are now labels that are releasing vinyl-only editions, including the intrepid Rune Grammofon, which introduced its The Last Record Company a couple years back, with limited-run albums including guitarist Stian Westerhus' Galore (2009) and equally ...

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Live At The BBC

By Elephant9

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2011

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Jazzahead! 2011

by John Kelman
May 16, 2011

Jazzahead Bremen, Germany April 28-May 1, 2010 Jazz may be a marginalized genre with shrinking CD sales and, at least in North America, a painfully low profile in popular media, but just a few days at Jazzahead in Bremen, Germany, leave a much different impression. A trade show for all ...

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Walk The Nile

By Elephant9

Label: Rune Grammofon
Released: 2010
Track listing: Fugi Fønix; Aviation; Walk the Nile; Hardcore Orientale; Habanera Rocket; John Tinnick.

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Various Artists: Twenty Centuries of Stony Sleep

Read "Twenty Centuries of Stony Sleep" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
November 4, 2010

Since releasing its first album, Supersilent's groundbreaking 1--3 (1998), Rune Grammofon has evolved into one of Norway's most consistently intrepid and unfettered labels. With every passing year, it's stylistic purview--largely focusing on Norwegian artists--expands just that extra bit further, with music ranging from the sublime beauty of In the Country's debut, This Was the Pace of ...

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Very Much Alive

by John Kelman
September 30, 2010

[NOTE]: This review is being republished as a celebration of just one aspect of the life of drummer Paolo Vinaccia, who passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer on July 5, 2019. Best-known in Norway, where he emigrated from Italy in 1979, enjoying a busy career with artists including Arild Andersen, Terje Rypdal, Mike Mainieri, ...

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Punkt Festival 2010

by John Kelman
September 14, 2010

The trials and tribulations of international travel--flight delays, missing or damaged baggage, and increasing limitations on said baggage--can be enough to frustrate even the most patient and seasoned world traveler. But despite an almost incredible confluence of problems flying to Kristiansand, Norway, for Punkt 2010, once there all such problems were forgotten. Punkt is simply too ...

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Norwegian Road Trip, Part 7: Molde Jazz, Days 5-6

by John Kelman
July 27, 2010

Article: Album Review

Elephant9: Walk the Nile

Read "Walk the Nile" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 22, 2010

Implacabile. Elephant9 è un trio che non lascia scampo. L'intensità che sprigiona, il magma incandescente che fuoriesce senza soluzione di continuità, l'esasperazione come fattore primario, sono i cardini di un'estetica che non ammette i se, i forse, i ma. O la si condivide, aprendo le orecchie ad un ascolto scevro da preconcetti, o la si rifiuta ...

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