Results for "Spunk"

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Albatrosh: Mystery Orchestra with Grenager & Talfjord

Read "Mystery Orchestra with Grenager & Talfjord" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
March 21, 2011

Duos can represent a double-edged sword: on one hand, no other context is as intimate, where the level of communication can be as deep, the lines of communication so open; equally, however, there are the inherent limitations on its possible sound worlds, the result of the specific textural, harmonic and rhythmic capabilities of the instruments involved. ...

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Kantarell

By Spunk

Label: Rune Grammofon
Released: 2009
Track listing: Tremble; The Lake; Bipolarity; Quadralogue; Antisolar Point; Mosegrodd; Ankomst; Ute; Eaten.

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Spunk: Kantarell

Read "Kantarell" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
August 9, 2009

As challenging as free improvisation can be, the truth is that while it may appear to be an aimless mixture of sounds found or otherwise, in the right hands it is something that--best absorbed as a whole rather than a collection of individual parts--can be as beautiful as it sometimes is jarring and off-putting. Spunk pushes ...

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En Aldeles Forferdelig Sykdom

By Spunk

Label: Rune Grammofon
Released: 2006
Track listing: Marbles; M??renh??r; Dead Man Watching; Lunleik; Twinkle Wrinkle; Sans; Hvis en Kantklipper Fikk Lov Til ?? Synge; Kameleon.

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Spunk: En Aldeles Forferdelig Sykdom

Read "En Aldeles Forferdelig Sykdom" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 14, 2006

The third studio disc by the Norwegian all-female quartet Spunk suggests a new perspective on free collective improvisation. Free improv does not have to be cerebral and dead serious. Spunk likes to push the music into absurdist extremes, to load the music with eccentric ideas, almost to the brink of anarchy, but always with a quirky ...

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