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Sinsuki Fujieda Group: Fukushima

Read "Fukushima" reviewed by Don Phipps


Sinsuke Fujieda's straightforward jazz album Fukushima offers up some enjoyable and tantalizing moments but ultimately suffers from repetitive arrangements and the limited range of his side musicians. Jazz is a music that rewards experimentation and adventure, but on Fujieda's nine compositions, he and his band stick with a “been there, done that" approach that by the ...

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Ivar Grydeland: Boyning, brytning

Read "Boyning, brytning" reviewed by John Eyles


Born in 1976 in Trondheim--the third most populous city in Norway, and one which is renowned for its jazz festival--guitarist Ivar Grydeland studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 1996 to 2000, and again from 2001 to 2003. He plays a dazzling range of instruments. There are acoustic and electric guitars and banjo with a ...

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Fukushima

Label: SOFA
Released: 2025
Track listing: Fukushima; Float In Oriental Spring; Silent Night; Nobody Knows; Perspective; Abstraction Jazz Mode; Horize; Jiva; Flying Steps.

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Boyning, brytning

Label: SOFA
Released: 2025
Track listing: Virkning av lysets boyning ; Fordums streng ; Virkning av lysets brytning : Ringer i ringer i vann ; Snyt meg langsommere.

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Spektralmaskin

Label: SOFA
Released: 2024
Track listing: I; II; III.

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Peder Simonsen & Jo David Meyer Lysne: Spektralmaskin

Read "Spektralmaskin" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Strap yourselves in, spectral travelers, for a journey into the sonic labyrinth that is Peder Simonsen and Jo David Meyer Lysne's Spektralmaskin. This album is not background music for folding laundry. Simonsen and Lysne weave a tapestry of sound that is both unsettling and strangely beautiful. Imagine a haunted music box possessed by a playful but ...

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Aviva Endean: cinder: ember: ashes

Read "cinder: ember: ashes" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Aviva Endean's debut album for the Norwegian label SOFA is heady and gleams with interesting abstracts. In addition to her improvisational acumen, she is a shaper of sound. Endean toggles between various clarinet types on each track. With asynchronous minimalist parts and microtonal aspects, she also executes darkly weaving passages, iterated with an alien dichotomy. This ...

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Playmates

Label: SOFA
Released: 2018
Track listing: Private Pleasure 1; Private Pleasure 2; Private Pleasure 3; Private Pleasure 4.

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cinder: ember: ashes

Label: SOFA
Released: 2018
Track listing: burst in black: under; apparition: above; vapour: between; distant song: afar; smoulder: beneath; undulations: behind; ashes for viv: before; cinder: ember: ashes.

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Like Driving

Label: SOFA
Released: 2018
Track listing: Everything We Touch Is Electric; Astronaut Peace; Like Driving.


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