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Article: Album Review

Spin Marvel: Infolding

Read "Infolding" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Spin Marvel is all about shaping sounds. Ambient landscapes, minimalistic tides, atmospherics, trance-inducing passages, and electro-acoustic marriages are all part of the package when this group gets going. When drummer Martin France put Spin Marvel together and orchestrated the creation of its eponymous debut, the band was presented as a quartet with trippy ...

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News: Recording

Spin Marvel's Infolding With Nils Petter Molvaer - Upcoming RareNoiseRecords Debut

Spin Marvel's Infolding With Nils Petter Molvaer - Upcoming RareNoiseRecords Debut

Spin Marvel is the brainchild of British drummer Martin France, here joined by an all-star crew of celebrated Norwegian trumpeter and electronic music pioneer Nils Petter Molvaer, bassist Tim Harries (formerly of Bill Bruford’s Earthworks), Norwegian electronic sculptor Terje Evensen and remix maestro Emre Ramazanoglu. Together they create spacious and dramatic soundscapes of profound intensity on ...

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Article: Rediscovery

Veslefrekk: Veslefrekk

Read "Veslefrekk: Veslefrekk" reviewed by John Kelman


VeslefrekkVeslefrekkNORCD1994 Before there was Supersilent--the renowned Norwegian noise improv group that was a seminal part of the flurry of creative Norwegian activity that, between 1997 and 1998, literally shook the world of improvised music and brought a number of artists, including Nils Petter Molvaer, Bugge Wesseltoft and Eivind Aarset, to far ...

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Article: Rediscovery

Masqualero: Masqualero

Read "Masqualero: Masqualero" reviewed by John Kelman


MasqualeroMasqualeroOdin1983 Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, there are still those who think that Norwegian musicians can't play “real jazz" (whatever that is), and that what they do play is something consistently (and erroneously) categorized as “Nordic Cool." Submitted for your approval is today's Rediscovery: the self-titled debut from Masqualero, ...

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Article: Album Review

Jon Hassell: Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics

Read "Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


Some records can be easily identified and defined by the time and the place of their creation, but Jon Hassell's records appear to have a different and opposite effect. His record Possible Musics doesn't give the impression of coming from a certain place, but rather from many places. And this collage approach where he mixed and ...

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Article: Album Review

Jon Hassell - Brian Eno: Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics

Read "Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics" reviewed by Enrico Bettinello


La Glitterbeat ristampa un classico come Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics della coppia Jon Hassell e Brian Eno. Correva l'anno 1980 e la complessa ricerca del trombettista americano incontrava l'obliquità del musicista inglese, in trasferta a New York. Musica etnica, ambient, minimalismo, elettronica si incontrano e scontrano in questa musica, fascinosa ...

Album

Switch

Label: Okeh
Released: 2014
Track listing: Switch; The Kit; Intrusion I; Quiet Corners; Strange Pillows; Intrusion VII; Bathroom; Intrusion VI; Somewhere Shady; Intrusion III.

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Article: Book Review

Il Suono Del Nord: La Norvegia protagonista della scena jazz europea

Read "Il Suono Del Nord: La Norvegia protagonista della scena jazz europea" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Il Suono Del Nord: La Norvegia protagonista della scena jazz euorpea Luca Vitali 320 pages ISBN:9788886784979 Auditorium Edizioni 2014 Inspite of having a population of only five million inhabitants, Norway, contests author Luca Vitali, produces and consumes more jazz than almost any other country in Europe. The growth ...

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Article: Year in Review

John Kelman's Best Releases of 2014

Read "John Kelman's Best Releases of 2014" reviewed by John Kelman


2014 was another challenging year, with a personal health matter that began in early summer (thankfully finally diagnosed, non-life threatening and now being treated, though still waiting for signs of improvement) slowing down both travel and the usual breakneck writing in a significant way. Since the rule of this list is that any titles on it ...

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Article: Album Review

InterStatic: Arise

Read "Arise" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Interstatic è una sorta di power trio formato da virtuosi strumentisti quali il tastierista Roy Powell (Anthony Braxton, Art Farmer, Terje Rypdal), il batterista Jarle Vespestad (Supersilent, Tord Gustavsen) e il chitarrista Jacob Young (Karin Krog, Nils Petter Molvaer, Christian Wallumrod). Trio che ha trovato ragioni comuni solide e importanti visto che è alla terza incisione ...


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