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Ancient History

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. Deism; 02. But This One Goes in Four; 03. Ancient History; 04. Hyperballad (Bjork); 05. White View; 06. Cheap Taxi Adventure; 07. Thunderous Thoughts; 08. Ballad 18. Tutte le composizioni sono di Verneri Pohjola tranne quelle indicate.

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Article: Album Review

Iro Haarla Sextet: Kolibri

Read "Kolibri" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Finnish Pianist-composer Iro Haarla's compositions for her sextet emphasize her aim to reach a different, larger sound than the sound of her Finnish-Norwegian quintet (Northbound and Vespers, both on ECM, 2006 and 2011). This sextet is comprised of top Finnish musicians who collaborated closely with her in the past and began to work as the sextet ...

Article: Album Review

Verneri Pohjola Quartet: Ancient History

Read "Ancient History" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Al di là di una versione essenziale, minimalista di “Hyperballad" - brano firmato Bjork e diventato da qualche tempo una sorta di “Time After Time" del nuovo millennio - si può dire che l'intero Ancient History sia costruito intorno alla forma ballad. Declinata nelle sue varie configurazioni, affrontata da diversi punti angolari e da differenti prospettive ...

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Black Motor with Verneri Pohjola at the 2013 Flow Festival

Read "Black Motor with Verneri Pohjola at the 2013 Flow Festival" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


Black Motor with Verneri PohjolaFlow Festival, The Balloon StageHelsinki, FinlandAugust 11, 2013On the last day of the summer holidays, and under what's typical seasonally unpredictable weather, a large crowd gathered in downtown Helsinki for Scandinavia's urban music event, Flow Festival. Black Motor Trio began its set with a tunes featuring its ...

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Wadada Leo Smith: Occupy the World

Read "Wadada Leo Smith: Occupy the World" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Great trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith's five epic extended compositions collected on the double album Occupy The World mark him as a major American composer with a musical language and artistic vision that transcends the boundaries of the Afro-American heritage of jazz. Smith wrote complex orchestral works before, most notably on the masterful, extensive 4-discs ...

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Iro Haarla Sextet: Kolibri

Read "Kolibri" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Finnish pianist Iro Haarla has expanded her customary quintet approach--trumpet, saxophone and rhythm section--with the addition of a third horn, Jari Hongisto's trombone, on Kolibri. The sextet is composed of some of Finland's most dynamic improvisors, and Haarla has given these vibrant artists the space to move the music in their own individual directions within the ...

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Wadada Leo Smith and Tumo: Occupy the World

Read "Occupy the World" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Trumpeter, composer and multi-instrumentalist Wadada Leo Smith's career has been one of relentless exploration and bold innovation. His timeless works have always eschewed narrow categorization and shattered musical boundaries. Now, in the eight decade of his life his creative vision has matured without losing any of its youthful energy. On the heels of his epic Pulitzer ...

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Vossa Jazz 2013

Read "Vossa Jazz 2013" reviewed by John Kelman


Vossa JazzOslo, NorwayMarch 22-24, 2013Every festival hopes to have a signature, that certain something that differentiates it from all the rest and makes it a desired destination, but few have as many things going for it as the annual Vossa Jazz Festival, now in its 40th year. It certainly may seem ...

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Verneri Pohjola & Black Motor: Rubidium

Read "Rubidium" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Black Motor is Finland's leading trio of free jazz that began to gain a wider recognition outside Finland in recent years. Since its foundation around 2005, the central Finland, Tampere-based proletariat trio expanded its muscular, uncompromising post-Albert Ayler and Peter Brötzmann approach as it began to collaborate with fellow, innovative Finnish improvisers as saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen, ...

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Verneri Pohjola & Black Motor: Rubidium

Read "Rubidium" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Just going by the name, for those unfamiliar with the thriving Scandinavian jazz scene, a group calling itself Black Motor might be mistaken for a heavy metal rock band--a smash-and-crash set of drums, a blasting three-chord guitar and a wall-shaking bass wrapped around bellowed lyrics. But the real Black Motor, a drums/bass/saxophone outfit--joined on Rubidium by ...


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