Results for "Thomas Strønen"

When The Heart Is The Moon

October 11, 2023

Album: Wind And Sun
By Sinikka Langeland
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:13

Vossa Jazz Going Strong and Poetic at 50

by Josef Woodard
April 12, 2023

Vossa Jazz Voss, Norway March 31-April 2, 2023 Origin stories in the still-young-ish wild frontier of jazz festival culture can be fascinating case studies in feisty pioneer spirit. Take the Western Norwegian Vossa Jazz Festival, an important stop in the storied Norwegian festival circuit, which celebrated its ripe old 50th birthday this ...

Sebastian Rochford / Kit Downes: A Short Diary

by Karl Ackermann
January 10, 2023

London-based drummer Sebastian Rochford (aka, Seb) and pianist Kit Downes have a long working history but have recorded only once as a duo on the EP Live @ The Vortex (Loop Collective, 2012). They reunite on the poignant and cerebral A Short Diary. Rochford began his relationship with ECM Records as part of the Andy Sheppard-led ...

A Musical Tryptich: Between Jazz, Folklore And Song

by Friedrich Kunzmann
January 4, 2021

The three albums below come from international European groups (among them one with a substantial Asian infusion) who recognize no boundaries in music nor borders between nations. Taking a variety of musical idioms and traditions and turning them into something new, each musician here is inspired by the lack of musical limitations that allows them to ...

Nocturnal Animals

By Yelena Eckemoff

Label: L & H Production
Released: 2020
Track listing: Cicada; Bat; Walkingstick; Fox; Grizzly Bear; Rattlesnake; Wolf; Hedgehog; Toad; Lynx; Scorpion; Firefly; Owl; Sea Turtle.

Memorabilia

By Mats Eilertsen

Label: NXN Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Veni; Stillheten; Memorabilia I; Swedenborg; Kyrie; Hjertet; Memorabilia II; Sanctus; Soma Da Du; Fotografiet; Memorabilia III; Agnus Dei; Minutter; Memorabilia IV; Snøfnuggene; Memorabilia V; Gloria.

Mats Eilertsen Trio & Trio Mediaeval: Memorabilia

by Friedrich Kunzmann
August 25, 2020

Talk of an album sounding highly reminiscent of something that could be released on Manfred Eicher's ECM label is quite common. But it does not come as a surprise anymore that much of today's music shares similar melancholic and minimalist contemporary leanings with the aesthetic found on the pioneering Munich-based label. However, this debut date, led ...

Thomas Strønen

Born: December 7, 1972

Yelena Eckemoff: Nocturnal Animals

by Mark Sullivan
February 2, 2020

Pianist-composer Yelena Eckemoff is predictably unpredictable. After an early series of piano trio albums she worked with larger ensembles, culminating in the sextet (plus vocalists) of Better Than Gold And Silver (L&H, 2018). After cutting back to a duet with drummer Manu Katché on Colors (L&H, 2019) she returns with a larger band, but with a ...

Bill Bruford's Earthworks: Earthworks Complete

by John Kelman
July 3, 2019

Since retiring as a professional musician in 2009, progressive/art rock turned jazz drummer Bill Bruford has successfully managed to maintained a place in the public eye. Beyond his engaging, informative and successful Bill Bruford: The Autobiography (Jawbone Press, 2009), the drummer/percussionist has more recently released a second, equally captivating book, Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer ...