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Stephan Meidell: Cascades
by Eyal Hareuveni
Norwegian, Bergen-based guitarist Stephan Meidell--known as a member of the experimental-improvising trio Cakewalk (Wired and Transfixed, Hubro, 2012 and 2013)--solo debut puts him in the same league of other Norwegian guitarists as Eivind Aarset and Stian Westerhus who redefined and re-conceptualized the role of the electric guitar. The Cascades project began in ...
Didymoi dreams
Label: Rune Grammofon
Released: 2013
Track listing:
1. The Rustle of a Long Black Skirt;
2. Barkis Is Willing;
3. Drawing an arc;
4. Limbs Leaves and Snownmobiles;
5. Wayward Ho;
6. Hedgehumming;
7. Immaculate Heart;
8. Wooing the Oracle;
9. Hector;
10. Dreamwork;
11. The Law of Oh.
Scene Norway 2 at King's Place
by John Kelman
Scene Norway 2 Artist-in-Residence: Nils Petter Molvær King's Place, London, UK November 15-17, 2013 Walking into King's Place, in London, England, is an experience in itself. A building opened in 2008 near King's Cross station in downtown London, it was built with the kind of foresight that is rare these ...
Nils Petter Molvaer: The Trumpet Does the Dreaming
by Adriana Carcu
Nils Petter Molvaer has long reached the musical excellence that places him amongst the most accomplished contemporary jazz musicians. As an early exponent of Nu Jazz, he mapped out a virgin musical territory and contributed to the branding of the Nordic Sound, today a genre in its own right, and still in full expansion. Molvaer's sonic ...
Jazzfestival Umeå 2013
by Henning Bolte
Jazzfestival Umeå Umeå, Sweden October 23-27, 2013 Umeå, 400 miles/650 km north of Stockholm at the Ume river and near the gulf of Bothnia, is the capital of Västerbotten County. The city is located in the plain coastal strip with an enormous wide horizon on all sides, and everything within reach in ...
Jan Bang: Narrative from the Subtropics
by Nenad Georgievski
Years ago, renowned film director Derek Jarman filmed a daring film called Blue where the viewers could only see a blue screen behind which the sounds from the scenes could be heard but not seen. This way, the viewers imagined the film based on the dialogues and the sound they heard, and placed their own images ...
Introducing Hevhetia Records: The Norwegian Connection
by Eyal Hareuveni
Hevhetia Records is a new Slovakian label based in Košice which aims to present the local and East European musical spectrum with a focus on jazz and experimental, alternative music. Since its inception in 2005 this label has released over seventy albums, including recent ones by local pianist Ondrej Krajnak dedicated to the seminal Czechoslovakian pianist ...
Punkt Festival 2013
by John Kelman
Punkt FestivalKick Kristiansand, Norway September 6-8, 2013 Punkt is back. Three simple words with greater significance. While the annual festival, which has made its name on the strength of two additional words--Live Remix--had an eighth edition in 2012 that, on paper, should have been nothing short of spectacular, it was ultimately ...
Jan Bang: Narrative From The Subtropics
by Henning Bolte
For Norwegian electronic musician Jan Bang, the studio is no longer a perfectly isolated space to assemble and produce fictitious beautiful sounds--a boundary he has long since transcended. He not only brought studio equipment and techniques to the performing stage but he also started using them as tools in live improvisation. Together with fellow musician and ...
Molde International Jazz Festival 2013
by John Kelman
Molde International Jazz Festival Molde, Norway July 15-20, 2013It may have been his last year as festival director, but Jan Ole Otnæs sure went out on a high, not just because his programming was as impeccable as ever, but because he made it a year with a very specific philosophy. ...
