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ODIN 9589CD
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$14.50
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RELEASE DATE: 4/5/2024
Kjetil Mulelid's various projects have received international acclaim, ranging from his duo with Siril Malmedal Hauge, his trio, and the quartet Wako. His first solo album, Piano received plaudits that placed him in the same company as pianists like Keith Jarret, Brad Mehldau, and Bill Evans. With Agoja Mulelid demonstrates what a musician and composer worthy of such acclaim can do with an ensemble cast of musicians of the highest caliber. On Agoja, three features are immediately apparent. First, that Mulelid's compositions are melodic, yet frequently surprising in their path from their beginning to end; second, that he is a generous band leader, allowing the musicians both to be themselves and to express themselves, often while he merges almost completely into the background; finally, that each composition has its own unique identity, yet bears Mulelid's hallmark clearly and distinctly. Kjetil Mulelid has distinguished himself as an inventive artist, blending jazz, psalms, and improvised music in both his own playing and compositions. He has played concerts in large parts of Europe and Japan and released several well-received albums as a solo-artist, as well as with his own Kjetil Mulelid Trio, the jazz quartet Wako, with singer Emilie Storaas as the duo Kjemilie, and with singer Siril Malmedal Hauge -- both as a band and as a piano/vocal duo. Featuring Selma French, Arve Henriksen, Martin Myhre Olsen, Trygve Seim, Mathias Eick, Signe Emmeluth, Sasha Berliner, Lyder Røed, and Lars Horntveth.
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ODIN 9589LP
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$30.50
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RELEASE DATE: 4/5/2024
LP version. Kjetil Mulelid's various projects have received international acclaim, ranging from his duo with Siril Malmedal Hauge, his trio, and the quartet Wako. His first solo album, Piano received plaudits that placed him in the same company as pianists like Keith Jarret, Brad Mehldau, and Bill Evans. With Agoja Mulelid demonstrates what a musician and composer worthy of such acclaim can do with an ensemble cast of musicians of the highest caliber. On Agoja, three features are immediately apparent. First, that Mulelid's compositions are melodic, yet frequently surprising in their path from their beginning to end; second, that he is a generous band leader, allowing the musicians both to be themselves and to express themselves, often while he merges almost completely into the background; finally, that each composition has its own unique identity, yet bears Mulelid's hallmark clearly and distinctly. Kjetil Mulelid has distinguished himself as an inventive artist, blending jazz, psalms, and improvised music in both his own playing and compositions. He has played concerts in large parts of Europe and Japan and released several well-received albums as a solo-artist, as well as with his own Kjetil Mulelid Trio, the jazz quartet Wako, with singer Emilie Storaas as the duo Kjemilie, and with singer Siril Malmedal Hauge -- both as a band and as a piano/vocal duo. Featuring Selma French, Arve Henriksen, Martin Myhre Olsen, Trygve Seim, Mathias Eick, Signe Emmeluth, Sasha Berliner, Lyder Røed, and Lars Horntveth.
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ODIN 9578LP
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LP version. Plastic Wave comes as the sequel to 2018's celebrated Happy Endlings, where Ole Morten Vågan, one of the most sought-after bass players in Norway, collaborated with the unpredictable and creative Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, comprised of a sort of "who's who" in Norwegian jazz. Where Happy Endlings took the listener on a 72-minute-long ride on the edge of their seat through a myriad of innovation, chock, and surprises, Plastic Wave sees TJO and Vågan take their mischievous end time antics from the previous album to the next phase, in some sorts a musical excavation of the next evolutionary step -- and the sequel is no less than 12 minutes longer. Titles such as "Food Chain Reaction" and "Critical Mass Distraction" are given extra momentum by Flu Hartberg's cover art, again a trusty companion for the music. Having been recorded halfway through 2020, the music on Plastic Wave plays well against this unprecedented backdrop, the music on Plastic Wave plays well against this unprecedented backdrop, and elements like a sudden cameo by poet Frode Grytten places the music even further into the context of our time.
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ODIN 9577LP
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LP version. The Source -- nearly 30 years in the tradition of the infinite peculiar. The Source is a quartet with a long history. Actually, started in 1993, with the founding members Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (bass), Per Oddvar Johansen, Trygve Seim, and Øyvind Brække, who all by then studied at the Jazz Course at the Trondheim Music Conservatory. The new quartet album ... But Swinging Doesn't Bend Them Down will be published on the legendary record label Odin Records. The title is an excerpt from the poem "Birches" by the American poet Robert Frost, a title that encompass a child's dream of climbing the treetops and swinging birch branches. It could be read as a reflection over the conflict between the free play in nature and the boundaries of adult life awaiting on the ground... But maybe the ground can wait? Just join the sheer joy of climbing the trees and the careful balance that is needed not to fall and be at one with the flexibility of nature. After several season-related albums, like The Source: of Christmas (1995) and The Source: of Summer (2013), it is now a pure quartet display out in the tube, only based on original music. The pieces are all signed by the quartet members and covers a vast register; raga, shuffle, swing, lyrical spots, improv and even a rough trombone/drum outing, and more. The Source: Øyvind Brække (trombone), Trygve Seim, (saxophone), Per Oddvar Johansen (drummer), Mats Eilertsen (bass).
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The Source -- nearly 30 years in the tradition of the infinite peculiar. The Source is a quartet with a long history. Actually, started in 1993, with the founding members Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (bass), Per Oddvar Johansen, Trygve Seim, and Øyvind Brække, who all by then studied at the Jazz Course at the Trondheim Music Conservatory. The new quartet album ... But Swinging Doesn't Bend Them Down will be published on the legendary record label Odin Records. The title is an excerpt from the poem "Birches" by the American poet Robert Frost, a title that encompass a child's dream of climbing the treetops and swinging birch branches. It could be read as a reflection over the conflict between the free play in nature and the boundaries of adult life awaiting on the ground... But maybe the ground can wait? Just join the sheer joy of climbing the trees and the careful balance that is needed not to fall and be at one with the flexibility of nature. After several season-related albums, like The Source: of Christmas (1995) and The Source: of Summer (2013), it is now a pure quartet display out in the tube, only based on original music. The pieces are all signed by the quartet members and covers a vast register; raga, shuffle, swing, lyrical spots, improv and even a rough trombone/drum outing, and more. The Source: Øyvind Brække (trombone), Trygve Seim, (saxophone), Per Oddvar Johansen (drummer), Mats Eilertsen (bass).
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ODIN 9579CD
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One of Norway's most influential bassists the last 30 years, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten celebrates 50 years on Earth, releasing his most personal album so far. You can imagine the journey of Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass player and composer, as an odyssey in a Viking ship of classic "knar" construction, with its long range, high speed, and strong seaworthiness in a storm. His story can also be told purely in music, as he does in the commissioned work (Exit) Knarr. The piece is divided into six destinations along the route -- a tribute to the people, music and places that have shaped him. (Exit) Knarr was commissioned by Vossajazz and the premiere was set to March 2020, but of course the pandemic has postponed the premiere twice. On the third try it is finally going to happen, Sunday September 26th. Not only is there going to be a concert, this will also be the first time the commissioned work by Vossajazz is recorded before the premiere.
The award-winning Norwegian bassist, improviser, composer, and bandleader Ingebrigt Håker Flaten has been at the forefront of modern creative music both in his native country Norway and internationally since the early 1990s. Perhaps best known as a founding member of the Scandinavian super group Atomic, Håker Flaten has merged post-free jazz explorations and experimentation with skillful use of attributes from many other idioms in countless collaborations, bands and projects.
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