Results for "Ora Fonogram"

Wako: Wako

by Mark Sullivan
March 30, 2020

Bands will often self-title their debut album, as a kind of calling card to the world at large. But doing so on a fourth album implies a serious coming of age statement: this is really who we are. That is certainly the case here. Its third album, Urolige sinn (Øra Fonogram, 2018), was a blend of ...

A Northern Code: Boundaries

by Mark Sullivan
March 13, 2020

A Northern Code is a collaboration between Norwegian guitarist Mathias Marstrander, Scottish double bassist Andrew Robb and Norwegian drummer Sigurd Steinkpf. The group balances improvisation with composition; one hallmark is the use of conceptual goals to help shape the improvisations. This is demonstrated right off the bat with opener “Slow Motion," which ably delivers on its ...

Wako

Label: Ora Fonogram
Released: 2019
Track listing: For Those We Love; Wako Amok; Stjerneskipet; Brain Drain; Hele verden er en boble; Le tapis volant; Trakterer du musikk?; Dagdrømmeren; Grown-up Life; Everything Comes To an End; When Staring Into Light, We Think; Skumringsbeltet; Savage Detective.

Boundaries

By A Northern Code

Label: Ora Fonogram
Released: 2019
Track listing: Slow Motion; Beslan; Bifilomania; Every Cell Of Your Body; Existential Future; Red Street; Meditative; Someday My Prince Will Come; Soundscape.

Jo David Meyer Lysne & Mats Eilertsen: Meander

by Mark Sullivan
March 6, 2018

Norwegian guitarist Jo David Meyer Lysne and double bassist Mats Eilertsen make their debut as a duo here. Meyer Lysne is a young player with a very individual approach to the acoustic guitar; Eilertsen is a veteran with over a hundred recordings on his resume, experience that really helps to bring Meyer Lysne's concepts into focus. ...

Meander

By Jo David Meyer Lysne

Label: Ora Fonogram
Released: 2017
Track listing: Intro; Sluten; Meander; Steinkast; Åpning; Pil; Svømmer Over; Duolian; Digg Dyne; Meso; Uro.

Song For Josia

By Hanna Paulsberg

Label: Ora Fonogram
Released: 2014
Track listing: Frygia; De Ensomme (The Lonely Ones; Diamond (Ra); Song for Josia; Elephant Mist; A Coat of Many Colors; Hemulen.

Elevenette

By Dan Peter Sundland

Label: Ora Fonogram
Released: 2014
Track listing: Pentatina for Five Vowels I: Words; Pentatina for Five Vowels II: Poem; Catechism of the Sea; A Western Ballad;Cuttings & Cuttings (later); Subtonevals.

Hanna Paulsberg Concept: Song For Josia

by Ian Patterson
October 23, 2014

Norwegian saxophonist Hanna Paulsberg founded the HPC in 2011, whislt studying at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Her quartet's debut, Waltz for Lilli (Ora Fonogram, 2012) announced a notable talent, one conversant in the North American swing tradition as well as influences closer to home. The concept, perhaps, was not new, but ...

Dan Peter Sundland: Elevenette

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 20, 2014

Eleventte is the ambitious debut album of Norwegian, 27-year- old bassist Dan Peter Sundland that attempts to merge compositions for chamber ensembles, improvised segments and texts from contemporary American poets. Sundland's group consists of four classically-trained musicians, plus seven musicians with backgrounds in modern jazz and free improvisation, most notably tenor saxophonist Hanna Paulsberg and drummer ...