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Espen Eriksen Trio: You Had Me At Goodbye
by John Kelman
When Rune Grammofon released In the Country's outstanding 2005 debut, This Was the Pace of My Heartbeat, it was promoted as the Norwegian label's “first jazz record." Still, that piano trio's eminently beautiful music retained the skewed edges so definitive of the label, while subsequent releases, including 2009's ambitious Whiteout, have aligned even more closely with ...
Rune Grammofon: Mutation and Reevaluation
by David McLean
Since its inception in 1998, Rune Grammofon has been at the forefront of ground breaking new music, heralding a new unprecedented interest in Scandinavian music. Whereas ECM's focus on the region has largely been based around the folk/traditional music explorations of its most prolific artists, including Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen, and ...
2010 Portland Jazz Festival
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
The Portland Jazz Festival is now in its 7th year under the artistic direction of Bill Royston. And at this point, it's pretty safe to say that this is a festival that has earned it's due as one of the most creative festivals that has not only survived the current economic downturn but has done so ...
Flux: Peninsulator
by Ian Patterson
Any band setting out to make a debut recording these days has a potentially inexhaustible number of influences from which to draw upon. Consequently, it is increasingly difficult to sound unlike anybody else. Flux, whose members attend Copenhagen's Rhythmic Music Conservatory, has produced a recording with echoes of progressive rock, classical chamber music and post-modern jazz ...
Bill Royston: The History of a Festival
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
It is a passion and responsibility that no one takes as serious as they do; and they do it knowing that little, if any acknowledgment will come their way. They are the festival promoters and artistic directors of this music we call Jazz.And though it's a music that has always had its up and ...
Whiteout
Label: Rune Grammofon
Released: 2009
Track listing: From the Shore; Kungen; Doves Dance; Ursa Major; Dead Water; W.A.R.M.;
Mother.
In The Country: Whiteout
by John Kelman
Terms like magnum opus can be dangerous, setting unrealistic expectations for the present and a precedent against which the future will always be measured. Whether or not this release represents a magnum opus is far too early to tell, but In The Country's Whiteout is certainly this Norwegian piano trio's most ambitious album to date, standing ...
In the Country: Losing Stones, Collecting Bones
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nell'entropico compenetrarsi dei linguaggi musicali, che il classico piano trio della tradizione jazzistica si incroci sempre più strettamente con i toni crepuscolari di un certo folk e pop è movimento abbastanza naturale. Se a questo aggiungiamo la mai nascosta preferenza di molti musicisti e ascoltatori europei per proposte in cui a emergere siano le componenti melodiche ...
In the Country: Losing Stones, Collecting Bones
by John Kelman
Leaving behind the staid piano trio tradition, In the Country broke new ground in 2005 with its Rune Grammofon debut, This Was the Pace of My Heartbeat. Unlike the more assertive Bad Plus and the generally more refined EST, this Norwegian trio managed to create a new paradigm for Grammofon's first self-described “jazz" record, one that ...
Losing Stones, Collecting Bones
Label: Rune Grammofon
Released: 2006
Track listing: My Best Friend Is a Dancer; Hello Walt; Ashes to Ashes; Everyone Live Their Life; Medicine Waltz; Take Me Over; Torch-Fishing; Bear; Can I Come Home Now; Kung Fu Boys; Don't Walk Another Mile.
