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MoHa!: Norwegianism
by John Kelman
While detractors will suggest that noise improv is nothing but, well, noise, the fact remains that there are significant differences between artists working in this niche genre. In Norway, Supersilent has managed to carve out its own space, where harsh textures and open spaces (lyricism, even) meet. MoHa!, on the other hand, takes a ...
Opsvik & Jennings: Commuter Anthems
by John Kelman
In an unusual move, Norway's Rune Grammofon label has released an album recorded in New York City. But while multi-instrumentalist/sound manipulator Aaron Jennings hails from the American Midwest, there is a Scandinavian connection. Residing in New York for nearly a decade, and establishing himself as a flexible bassist with artists including saxophonist David Binney and pianist ...
Opsvik & Jennings: Commuter Anthems
by Troy Collins
Commuter Anthems is the sophomore follow up to Floyel Files (NCM East, 2005), the debut recording of the duo of Norwegian-born bassist Eivind Opsvik and guitarist Aaron Jennings, originally hailing from Tulsa, Oklahoma. While their previous effort was promising enough, it sometimes drifted a little too close to becoming pleasant aural wallpaper. This release shows remarkable ...
Arve Henriksen: Strjon
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ci sono alcuni punti di riferimento che sembrano imprescindibili per molti musicisti scandinavi: in primis un profondo senso di attaccamento alla natura, a “quella" natura così suggestiva e dilatata, fatta di luce e buio, di spazio e di vento, in grado di dialogare con l'ispirazione e fornire a essa gli spazi per distendersi. È una considerazione ...
In the Country: Losing Stones, Collecting Bones
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nell'entropico compenetrarsi dei linguaggi musicali, che il classico piano trio della tradizione jazzistica si incroci sempre più strettamente con i toni crepuscolari di un certo folk e pop è movimento abbastanza naturale. Se a questo aggiungiamo la mai nascosta preferenza di molti musicisti e ascoltatori europei per proposte in cui a emergere siano le componenti melodiche ...
Shining: Grindstone
by John Kelman
It's hard to imagine, based on Grindstone, that Norwegian group Shining started out as a post-bop jazz quartet. While fellow Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer's current electronica/ambient-based music seems a far cry from his early days with the similarly post-bop Masqualero, there's still evidence of lineage. Shining has virtually nothing to tie it to its jazzier ...
Arve Henriksen: Strjon
by John Kelman
Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen continues to mine the space between the notes, the power of silence and the beauty of nuance on Strjon. Unlike Chiaroscuro (Rune Grammofon, 2004), which was based on live improvisations, real-time sampling and subsequent post-production, Strjon is a studio concoction. While there's equal collaboration and extemporization with keyboardist Ståle Storløkken and guitarist ...
In the Country: Losing Stones, Collecting Bones
by John Kelman
Leaving behind the staid piano trio tradition, In the Country broke new ground in 2005 with its Rune Grammofon debut, This Was the Pace of My Heartbeat. Unlike the more assertive Bad Plus and the generally more refined EST, this Norwegian trio managed to create a new paradigm for Grammofon's first self-described “jazz" record, one that ...
