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Helge Norbakken

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Movements of Air

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Olive Branch; Peace River Crossing; We Belong to Each Other; Mountain of Companions; Elements of Harmony; The White Flag; Change; Civilian Casualties; Who Are You?; Harmonic Allusions.

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Article: Album Review

Daniel Herskedal: Movements of Air

Read "Movements of Air" reviewed by Geno Thackara


Quick--when you think of instruments that sound airy, what comes to mind? Piccolo, mandolin, some kind of synthesizer or possibly the theremin? Most of us would take quite some time before guessing the tuba. It takes some imagination to look past its conventional low lines and thumps, but Daniel Herskedal is just that kind of thinker. ...

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Siwan: Hafla

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Tarraquab; Enamorado de Jupiter; Mirada Furtiva; La Estrella Fugaz; Arrihu Aqwadu Ma Yakunu Li-Annaha; Dialogo en la Noche; Linea Oscura; Saeta; Uquallibu; Wadadtu; Visita; Is There No Way.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Colin Stetson, Ches Smith, Marisa Monte, Evgeny Ponomarev & Other New Releases

Read "Colin Stetson, Ches Smith, Marisa Monte, Evgeny Ponomarev & Other New Releases" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


The much-awaited return of Marisa Monte and the faux-Nippo-jazz of Julien Daïan open a show which centers around the outstanding new album by Ches Smith and dives deep into the diversity of today's international jazz scene. Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Marisa Monte ...

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NORTH

Label: Prophone/NAXOS
Released: 2020

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Article: Interview

Jon Hassell: Words with the Shaman

Read "Jon Hassell: Words with the Shaman" reviewed by Chris May


Jon Hassell is best known as the creator of Fourth World music, an acoustic-electronic blend of jazz, minimalism, drone, ambient, traditional African and Asian instruments and harmolodic signatures. Hassell has defined Fourth World as “serious music with transcultural appeal and a smile." He unveiled the concept on his debut album, Vernal Equinox (Lovely Records), in 1977. ...

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Article: Album Review

Mathias Eick: Ravensburg

Read "Ravensburg" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


On his previous ECM release, Midwest (2015), trumpeter and composer, Mathias Eick plotted the course of his Norwegian ancestors to the heartland of America. Drawn from his own travels as well, Eick applies personal experiences and family lore once again on Ravensburg, named for the German town of his grandmother. Here the journey is closer to ...

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Article: Album Review

Signe Bisgaard: Meander

Read "Meander" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


A big ensemble often equals a big sound, but sometimes it is more interesting to think about the potential of sound rather than the idea of using all instruments at once. The Danish composer and pianist, Signe Bisgaard, thinks about the potential of sound on her album Meander. She does not use all ...

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Article: Album Review

Mathias Eick: Midwest

Read "Midwest" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


The northern tier of mid-western America had been a strong draw for Norwegians from the late 1800s into the twentieth-century. Trumpeter and composer, Mathias Eick, in making his own recent journey from Norway to the heartland, discovered a cultural heritage and a familiarity that moved him to set the experience to music. Like Norsemen since the ...


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