Results for "Odin Records"

Flukten

Label: Odin Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Flukten; Omar’s Theme; Abundans; Mandela; Dekonstruert komle; Monica frå Svolvær; Sir Henry; Bjørni sover.

Agoja

By Kjetil Mulelid

Label: Odin Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Alone; Song For Elijah; Heroes; Thousands Of Lost Stories; A Prayer For Peace; Waiting Song; Chapter Ø; Kingdom Slowly Disappearing.

Kjetil Mulelid: Agoja

by Chris May
April 11, 2024

Over the course of three albums with his trio between 2019 and 2022, and the exquisitely pretty solo set Piano (Rune Grammofon, 2021), keyboardist Kjetil Mulelid has emerged as a bright new star in Norwegian jazz. His playing is vivacious, his composing melodic and his overall sound consonant but full of unexpected twists and turns. Mulelid ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Water Fabric

By Espen Berg

Label: Odin Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sun Glacier; Circumzenithal; 1914; Hydrophobic; Acres Of Dew; Duelling Rivers; Triple Point Suite.

Marbles

By Andre Roligheten

Label: Odin Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sonny River; Ariel’s Song; Whale Waltz; Lagoon Mist; Pyramid Dance; Moon Shade; Twini Bliss; Live Sover.

Espen Berg: Water Fabric

by Chris May
November 10, 2023

The Norwegian pianist and composer Espen Berg has already carved out a formidable reputation with his trio. Earlier in 2023 he began a parallel strand with The Trondheim Concert (NXN), the recording of a wholly in-the-moment improvised solo concert, in the Keith Jarrett tradition, which he gave in 2019. Berg has since released two more albums ...

Andre Roligheten: Marbles

by Chris May
November 5, 2023

Tenor saxophonist André Roligheten is best known outside his native Norway, and wider Scandinavia, as a member of drummer Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity and as a composer/arranger in the berserker big band, Supersonic Orchestra. Nilssen returns the favour on Marbles, one of Roligheten's infrequent own-name releases. The album has grown out of a ...

Hanna Paulsberg Concept: Daughter Of The Sun

by Chris May
April 7, 2023

Ever since Jan Garbarek put Norwegian jazz on the map in the late 1980s, and even more so after the international success of his singularly ascetic Officium (ECM) in 1994, the music has acquired a reputation for being, if not entirely lacking in passion, then at least emotionally detached. Since the millennium, with the emergence of ...

Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity: To Whom Who Buys A Record

by Chris May
March 17, 2023

In July 2019, Gard Nilssen will be Artist-in-Residence at the prestigious, future-facing Molde Jazz Festival. It will be a busy week for the Norwegian drummer, composer and sonic adventurer. As well as guest appearances, he will perform with several of his bands--SpaceMonkey, an electronica/dance music mash-up he co-founded five years ago; Bushman's Revenge, which may be ...