Results for "Ozella Music"
While We Wait For A Brand New Day

By Oddgeir Berg
Label: Ozella Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Dream Of Adam; Dancing Through The Storm; Lucky To Be Happy; Happy Morning;
Psalmish; Sunday Mood; Scenes From A Movie; Bring On The Night; Post Mortem.
Oddgeir Berg Trio: While We Wait For A Brand New Day

by Dan McClenaghan
Writing about Norway's Oddgier Berg trio and discussing the group's terrific debut album Before Dawn (Ozella Music, 2018), one reviewer said that Berg and his mates were A group to keep an eye and both ears on." That writer was spot on. The trio followed up that auspicious first effort with In the End ...
Christmas Came Early

Label: Ozella Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Na Tennes Tusen Julelys; It Came Upon A Midnight Clear; O Come All Ye Faithful; Det Hev Ei Rose Sprunge;
Glade Jul (Stille Nacht); Mitt Hjerte Aiitid Vanker (My Heart Always Wanders); In Dulci Jubilo; Delig Er Jorden
(Schonster Herr Jesu...).
Impressions, Improvisations and Compositions

By Kari Ikonen
Label: Ozella Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Imprologue; Maqtu’ah on Maqam Rast; Pinocchio; Rausch; Taqsim on Maqam Saba; Blue;
Violet; Koto; Oppressive; Three-Chord Blues; Trance Oriental; The Evergreen Earth.
Oddgeir Berg Trio: Christmas Came Early

by Dan McClenaghan
The late Paul Bley (1932-2016) once said of his ECM Records release Open, To Love (1972), that the sound he created there was his attempt to prove he was the slowest pianist in the world. He was a man with a sense of humor, and his tongue had surely wormed its way into his cheek with ...
Kari Ikonen: Impressions, Improvisations and Compositions

by Rob Garratt
Twentieth century artists were often known to power their creative process with a jazz soundtrackJackson Pollack's frenzied brushstrokes supposedly sparked by bebop horn spurtswhile further back loftily enlightened Romantic composers often hoped to distill the essence of other mediums in their workperhaps most famously with Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Jazz musicians ...
In The End Of The Night

By Oddgeir Berg
Label: Ozella Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: Vagabond; American Dream; The Escape; List; Travellers; Way Home; Future Has Come; Lullaby For A.O.; Stars Aligned; In The End Of The Night.
Drake

Label: Ozella Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: I Told You So; Rise To The Occasion; Here To Stay; Decompression; Tears; Good Stuff; It's Gonna Happen; Entwurzelt; Drake; Yorke; Choral.
Benny Lackner Trio: Drake

by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Benny Lackner was born in Germany, but moved to the United States at thirteen years of age. He spent his formative years in California, and received his BFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Studies with pianist Brad Mehldau followed. Then, at thirty years of age, Lackner returned to Berlin from his adopted New ...
Oddgeir Berg Trio: In The End Of The Night

by Dan McClenaghan
Oddgeir Berg Trio, out of Norway, came in with a compelling and fully-formed voice from the very beginning, with a particularly fine debut, Before Dawn (Ozella Music, 2018). Headed by pianist Berg, the group has wasted no time in releasing their sophomore effort, In The End of the Night. There is something to be said for ...