release: 10.11.17

epic cinematic soundscapes from the drummer’s drummer

Erland Dahlen’s ‘Clocks’ presents the listener with a series of epic cinematic soundscapes. Although there is no actual film to illustrate, the imaginative power and suggestive resonance of Dahlen’s compositions easily stand comparison with the work of leading film composers. As Dahlen – whose previous album, ‘Blossom Bells’, was nominated for a Spellemannspris, the Norwegian ‘Grammy’ – is a drummer, one might first think of Antonio Sanchez’s percussive score for ‘Birdman’, say, but ‘Clocks’ employs such a broad range of sound-sources and musical reference-points that it’s probably closer to the atmospheric film-work of Tangerine Dream or Ryuichi Sakamoto. Police drummer Stewart Copeland’s music for ‘Rumblefish’ and the contributions to ‘Apocalypse Now’ by the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann come to mind, too.

Unrest is a new collection of masterly collages from the hand of Erik Honoré in which he captures, with absolute precision, the moods and tonal imagery of improvisations and weaves them together in a personal and evocative musical process. He has been joined by an impressive array of Norwegian improvisational musicians: Sidsel Endresen, Eivind Aarset, Arve Henriksen, Stian Westerhus and many others.

release: 03.11.17

Dear friends and jazz lovers !

The second edition of Scope Festival starts next week! We are pretty happy that we were able to convince some of the most talented musicians from Scandinavia to perform at our little festival. You find more infos and tickets on our website and the full lineup below. And if you have some time check out our festival trailer here.

Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra’s The Reason Why Vol. 3 is released in the UK on the 3rd of November on Headspin Recordings.  In addition to the CD and DL versions here will be limited edition pressing available on yellow or purple vinyl.

The Security Project has once again reinvented itself, this time with vocalist Happy Rhodes. Together withJerry Marotta (drummer from Peter Gabriel’s first five records), Trey Gunn (King Crimson), Michael Cozzi(Shriekback) and NY keyboardist David Jameson, the group continues reimagining the early work of Peter Gabriel (and also, on this disc, Kate Bush), but with Happy’s impressive four-octave vocals adding an entirely new dimension.

Here we got the latest upcoming recording from Norwegian renowned Rune Grammofon label.

Following in the footsteps of In The Country and Espen Eriksen Trio, Kjetil Mulelid Trio is the third piano trio to appear on Rune Grammofon. Although they can be placed in the same musical landscape, it ́s also fair to say there are certain obvious differences. There ́s a solid dose of youthful playfulness and curiosity at work here, at the same time they show an assured maturity that belies their age (26, 26 and 29).

Dear All. Here are the latest news from our dearest friends from ICP.

ICP is just back from a glorious tour of Colombia, where we played for some wonderfully enthusiastic (and large: see photo above) audiences.  Now we’re equally thrilled to move on to more domestic matters: first, we have a few shows in Nederland:

Friday, October 6th at 20.30: De Doelen, Rotterdam
Saturday, October 7th at 20.30: Paradox, Tilburg
Sunday, October 8th at 15.00: Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen

Today is a lucky day . One of the rarest tittles from legendary Crammed Disc label : Yasuaki Shimizu’s “Music For Commercial” , being No* 12 of their famous Made  To Measure series had been reissued. M2M was exploring the contemporary and progressive music between ’86 –  ’95  and series contains some of the real treasures. I own 16 titles from that series out of 36 issued and this one is one of the missing, so I am very looking forward to get it.