Results for "Jazzland Recordings"

Basement Music

By VIKTOR SKOKIC

Label: Jazzland Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: TRE; TVÅ; ETT TVÅ TRE; HOPPLA; UTGÅNGSOSTINATO; ISLAND MUSIC; JAZZ

Space Sailors

Label: Jazzland Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Life And Death Of Hugo Drax; The Spacesailor; Sondan; Terminal One; The Final Goodbye; Pilgrimstad; Arriving At Ramajay Part I; Arriving At Ramajay Part II; The Actor (Gonzo Goes To Pasadena); My Life In A Mirror; Free As A Bird; Sondan Outro.

Snow Catches on her Eyelashes

Label: Jazzland Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Purplebright; Asphalt Lake; Before the Wedding; Two Days in June; Outer Space; The Witness; Inner Sphere; Serenade; Monochrome; Night Spell.

Rymden: Space Sailors

By GARETH THOMPSON

Outer space and cosmic jazz have long been a match made beyond heaven. The latest act throwing their hat into Saturn's rings is the excellent Norwegian band Rymden, featuring keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft. The trio has clearly boned up on Sun Ra and Lonnie Liston Smith, but rockier influences are present too from the likes of Hawkwind, ...

Viktor Skokic Sextett: Basement Music

By MARK CORROTO

Basement Music, the title of bassist Viktor Skokic's premiere as a band leader, refers not to the social isolation of the 2020 global pandemic, but to the sites of his compositional efforts. Written in his basement, and recorded prior to the lockdown, the music is actually the converse of social distancing—'converse' as in conversation. His 'Sextett' ...

Rymden: Reflections And Odysseys

By TYRAN GRILLO

Reflections & Odysseys gifts to the listening world the debut of pianist Bugge Wesseltoft's new trio—called Rymden—with bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Öström. The rhythm section, best known as part of e.s.t. (led by the late Esbjörn Svensson), serves Wesseltoft with fresh purpose, at once grateful for what came before and eager to chart maps ...

Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang: Snow Catches on her Eyelashes

By JOHN EYLES

Although they had been collaborating since the early 90s, the first recording on which the Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset and American-born, Norway-resident Jan Bang appeared together was Bang's Pop Killer (Virgin, 1998). In the years since, Aarset and Bang have collaborated on many more albums, but this is the first to credit them as a duo. ...

Viktor Skokic

Composer, arranger and bass player based in Stockholm, Sweden, mainly focusing on contemporary jazz and improvised music, with a strong emphasis on rhythm and an exploratory approach to melody and harmony. Writing music for small as well as large ensembles, Viktor is always aiming at fully exploiting the potential of the format at hand.

Apart from working in the field of contemporary jazz, Viktor regularly appears as an arranger and bass player in a wide range of contexts, all the way from experimental indie to children's music.

The Moon Doesn't Drink

By LYDER ØVREåS RøED

Label: Jazzland Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: The Moon Doesn’t Drink; I Don’t Usually Dance; Why Are All These People Here?; Cool Berry; The Room Next Door; Chrysanthemums And Crocuses; Summer; Autumn.

Reflections And Odysseys

By BUGGE WESSELTOFT

Label: Jazzland Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Reflections; The Odyssey; The Peacemaker; Pitter-Patter; The Lugubrious Youth Of Lucky Luke; The Celestial Dog And The Funeral Ship; Bergen; Råk–The Abyss; Råk; Orbiting; Homegrown.