Live in Europe [3CD]

Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 2017-11-30
opakowanie: kartonowe etui
opis:
multikulti.com - ocena * * * * 1/2:
Ten album po prostu trzeba mieć w swojej kolekcji!
I to wcale nie dlatego, że pomimo jego nowości zbiera już znakomite recenzje (warto wspomnieć 5 gwiazdek na freejazzblog), ale dlatego, że mamy do czynienia z wyjątkową, nawet jak na scenę free synergią. Płynna narracja trójki równorzędnych partnerów, na dwóch koncertach wspartych przez znanych z jazzowej inwencji dmuchaczy, z silnymi inklinacjami do free, przyprawia słuchacza o drżenie serca.
Muzyka iskrzy, eksploduje, ale nie wpada w jakże częstą pułapkę nachalnego hałasowania.
Fundament składu to Gard Nilssen za perkusją, Petter Eldh na kontrabasie i André Roligheten na saksofonach, w takim składzie nagrano materiał na pierwszą płytę (North Sea Jazz Festival 2016). Na drugiej płycie (Ljubljana Jazz Festival 2016) do tria dołączył doskonale znany z Atomic, saksofonista i klarnecista Fredrik Ljungkvist. Na trzeciej płycie (Oslo Jazz Festival 2016) z kolei Kristoffer Berre Alberts na alcie, tenorze i barytonie i Jorgen Mathisen na tenorze i klarnecie.
Zachwyca saksofonista André Roligheten, lider znakomitej Roligheten, członek duetu Albatrosh, ale też Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Motorpsycho, Friends & Neighbors czy Cambien Trio.
Potężny tembr kontrabasu na granicy przesteru niemieckiego basisty Pettera Eldha, znanego ze współpracy z Django Bates trio, Amok Amor, Speak Low, Peterem Evansem, Jimem Blackiem i Tobiasem Deliusem.
No i lider, bardzo ceniony w Europie perkusista Gard Nilssen, obok projektów, które współtworzy (Starlite Motel, Acoustic Unity, Bushman’s Revenge, Puma, sPacemoNkey czy Astro Sonic) jest i cała masa grup, w których występuje jako sideman (Team Hegdal, Cortex, Lord Kelvin, Zanussi 5, ale też i prowadzony przez Macieja Obarę Obara International).
Świetna koncertowa robota!
autor: Mariusz Zawiślak
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“This is one of the best releases I’ve heard this year and even in the last 2-3 years”
-Gustav Lindqvist (Free Jazz Collective 5/5 stars)

“Live in Europe provides an audacious excursion into creative music “
-Mark Corroto (Allaboutjazz.com 4/5 stars)

“ Even the trio date is a raucous free jazz blowout, and when the guests arrive at the party, things get seriously explosive”
-Phil Freeman (Stereogum.com)

“A group who really find a new way to open things up”
-Dusty Groove (Chicago)

”The musicians who recorded it are outstanding and masterful avant-garde jazz improvisers.”
-Avantscena

“Freewheeling solos, tight interplay, and the kind of energy that you can only get in a live performance - it's all here, and it's all gold.”
-Derek Stone (free jazz blog)

“Live in Europe» er blitt en fantastisk bra live-utgivelse, med et band som inviterer til fest enten man er i Rotterdam, Ljubljana eller Oslo. Kjopetvang!”
-Jan Granlie (salt-peanuts.eu)

“Uansett sa er musikken toff, kompromisslos, energisk og forteller oss at ogsa som bandleder har Gard Nilssen mye a fare med - ikke veldig overraskende det heller”.
-Tor Hammero (Tor de jazz)

“Glitrende soloutspill i flere nyanser i det som var en ra jazzgig”
-Chris Monsen (Klassekampens top 10 livekonsert 2017 karing)

“En av hostens shavveste liveopplevelser”
-Audun Vinger

”Nilssen er overalt i norsk musikk for tiden og han gjor det til et bedre sted a oppholde seg”
-Jazznytt

Editor's info:
If we were in the seventies and a release like this –a triple LP –crossed our way, we would think that progressive rock was receiving its most ambitious conceptual album ever, but no. The year is 2017 and “Live in Europe” is something else entirely: a celebration of improvised music in its purest form, recorded in concert –as it should. Gard Nilssen’s trio Acoustic Unity played in the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Ljubljana Jazz Festival and the Oslo Jazz Festival in 2016 and the entirety of those performances were documented. Only in the first vinyll we find the triangle formed by the drummer with André Roligheten and Petter Eldh. The second has the contributions of FredrikLjungkvist and the third of Kristoffer Alberts and Jorgen Mathisen. The effect, anyhow, is very similar: this is a very special edition, and it has the same impact in the present creative jazz scene that it would have 40 years ago if it was something coming from King Crimson or Frank Zappa. The importance of this group in instantaneous composition with jazz as its foundation is equivalent. Nilssen’s enthusiasm on the liner notes is very clear: this is «one of the best bands I’ve ever been a part of by far». Why? Because these musicians are re-inventing melody and rhythm while improvising, and that’s not a common task.

Recorded live in concert.Side A & B recorded at North Sea Jazz Festival 8th of July 2016 by Alex Fiennes
Side C & D recorded at Ljubljana Jazz Festival 2nd of July 2016 by Luís Delgado
Side E & F recorded at Oslo Jazz Festival 18th of August 2016 by David SolheimMixed by Ingar Hunskaar, January-February 2017
Mastered by Fridtjof Lindemann, March 2017Produced by Gard Nilssen and André Roligheten
Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul
Photos by Petra Cvelbar, Tore Satre, Eddy Westveer, Ketil Hardy & Gard Nilssen
Cover design by Travassos

muzycy:
Gard Nilssen: drums
Petter Eldh: double bass
Andre Roligheten: tenor & soprano saxophonesFeat:Fredrik Ljungkvist: tenorsaxophone & clarinet (side C & D)
Kristoffer Berre Alberts: alto,tenor & barytone saxophones (side E: & F)
Jorgen Mathisen: tenor saxophone & clarinet (side E & F)

utwory:
CD1:
1) When Pigs Fly (Roligheten)
2) Hymne (Nilssen)
3) Roundtrip (Nilssen)
4) Mormor (Nilssen)
5) Rushen (Eldh)
6) Gammal Rottegift (Nilssen)
7) Jack (Nilssen/Roligheten)
8) Zig Zag (Roligheten)

CD2:
1) Summer Ale (Roligheten)
2) Rushen (Eldh)
3) Gammal Rottegift (Nilssen)
4) Hymne (Nilssen)
5) Roundtrip (Nilssen)
6) Zig Zag (Roligheten)
7) Salad Days (Roligheten)

CD3:
1) Hymne (Nilssen)
2) Roundtrip (Nilssen)
3) Mormor (Nilssen)
4) When Pigs Fly (Roligheten)
5) Utleiemegleren (Roligheten)
6) Zig Zag (Roligheten)
7) Adam's Ale (Roligheten)

wydano: 2017-11
nagrano: Recorded live in concert
Side A & B recorded at North Sea Jazz Festival 8th of July 2016
Side C & D recorded at Ljubljana Jazz Festival 2nd of July 2016
Side E & F recorded at Oslo Jazz Festival 18th of August 2016
Mixed January/February

more info: www.cleanfeed-records.com