Results for "SOFA"

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Sinsuki Fujieda Group: Fukushima

by Don Phipps
January 11, 2026

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

by John Eyles
January 8, 2026

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

By Sinsuke Fujieda

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

By Ivar Grydeland

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

By Peder Simonsen

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

by Glenn Astarita
July 29, 2024

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

by Glenn Astarita
February 23, 2019

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

By Havard Volden

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

By Eviva Endean

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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