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RYMDEN - New Album - Today May Be Tomorrow
Across their previous excursions, RYMDEN have travelled widely. "Reflections and Odysseys" announced the long-awaited meeting of two great streams in modern European jazz: Wesseltoft’s New Conception of Jazz and the Swedish bass-and-drums axis of e.s.t., with Berglund and Öström bringing their own history of power, precision, lyricism and volcanic live energy. "Space Sailors" pushed further outward, with the trio’s music expanding into a greater electronic, psychedelic, progressive and punk-inflected cosmos. "Valleys and Mountains" brought them closer to Earth, to landscapes both external and internal: hikes, woods, valleys, mountains, dreams, memory and rediscovery.
Bjørn Kjellemyr Kvartett - New Mini Album - Trondheim Jazzfestival 1994
When Bugge Wesseltoft describes Bjørn Kjellemyr’s quartet of the early 1990s as the best band he has ever played in, the claim carries some weight.
The line-up alone makes "Trondheim Jazzfestival 1994" a remarkable document: Kjellemyr on acoustic and electric bass, Nils Petter Molvær on trumpet, Wesseltoft on synthesizer and Fender Rhodes, and Audun Kleive on drums. Behind the desk was sound engineer Sven Persson, an essential fifth presence who also had the good sense to record the concert. More than thirty years later, that tape has found its way back into the light.
Solveig Sletthjell Quartet - New Single - Vente
“Vente” moves with an easy, understated groove, its soft soul colouring and lightly percussive pulse giving the song a warmth that never quite settles into nostalgia. It is relaxed, precise, and quietly radiant.
Slettahjell’s lyric looks towards Vence, where colour, art, wine and sunlight become a counterweight to winter and the long northern wait for spring. The repeated "vente, vente, vente" gives the song both its hook and its central idea: patience, memory, and the certainty that something will eventually begin again.
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