In lieu of an increasingly overdue London appearance by Supersilent, a performance featuring one of their (diminishing) number is clearly something to be snatched at. I got the impression that I was one of the few in this large crowd who had primarily come to see Supersilent keyboard player Ståle Storløkken's 1970s jazz explosion, Elephant9. Most were here, no doubt, to see another Rune Grammofon band, and possibly the only one even more popular than Supersilent themselves: Deathprod's old band, Motorpsycho. It felt like the entire Norwegian population of London was crammed into the subterranean Borderline. [...]
What's up with Norway? After unleashing startling proggy albums from Motorpsycho and Jaga Jazzist earlier this year, they've hurled yet another stonking progressive jazz infusion out across the waters, this time from power trio Elephant9 . Walk The Nile isn't twisted anagrammatically around Johnny Cash's shuffling 'Walk The Line'; it appears to be a reference to Eastern modal constructs based around the phrygian scale. That doesn't mean listeners should expect anything as Eastern as Omar Souleyman, or as Western as The Bangles' 'Walk Like An Egyptian'; no, Walk The Nile is a funky traverse across [...]
Believe it or not, I actually have a large list of tracks I want to post, I just haven't had time to write them up yet. So you'll have to settle for this, a new track from Elephant9 which also happens to be the best thing that came across my desk this week. A lot of Rune Grammofon stuff tends to be very abstract and while I almost always appreciate it on an intellectual level, it's not necessarily the sort of thing I ever feel like listening to. Not so with this, this is visceral and [...]
Edward Budd was an enterprising eighteen-year-old. He was determined to make something of himself and escape the desperate poverty of his parents. On May 25, 1928, he put a classified ad in the Sunday edition of the New York World: "Young man, 18, wishes position in country. Edward Budd, 406 West 15th Street." He was a strapping young fellow who was eager to work and contribute to the well-being of his family. Trapped in the dirty, stinking, crowded city in a miserable tenement with his father, mother and four younger siblings, he longed to [...]
Elephant9 Dodovoodoo (06.2008, Rune Grammofon) Verdict = Bombastic, invigorating, rockin' jazz Improvisational music has always been a super compelling, but slightly difficult listen for me and Jazz, with all its history and various sub genres, has been a particularly daunting area of music for me to penetrate. However, while I have yet to delve into very much beyond Miles Davis' Kind of Blue in terms of historical essentials, I have become enraptured with various forms of avant-garde jazz that seems to be one of the staples of modern Scandinavian music. The Norwegian [...]
Musique Machine reviews Rune Grammofon act Elephant9 : http://www.musiquemachine.com/ reviews/reviews_template.php?i d=1963
PopMatters reviews the Elephant9 album "Dodovoodoo" : http://www.popmatters.com/pm/r eview/61157/elephant9-dodovood oo
mention the rune grammofone label, and you'll think right away of the bustling experimental music scene in norway. sometimes, that can be an intimidating impression, since experimental must mean serious and difficult right? wrong, especially if it's elephant9 you're listening to, the newly formed psych-prog-jazz-rock (feel free to add more labels) band comprising ståle storløkken (supersilent) on keyboards, nikolai eilertsen (the national bank) on bass, and torstein lofthus (shining) on drums. established musicians in their respective bands, the trio sound perfectly comfortable playing with each other, their impeccably tight performance and lively improvisation evident in their [...]
Of course everything released on Rune Grammofon has Kim Hiorthoy on sleeve design duties, but it seems to be increasingly the case that they also have to feature a member of Supersilent. Supersilent albums can go as far as having four of them, which seems to me to be an unnecessary embarrassment of riches. After [...]
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