Originally posted 2 July 2007 . MOUNTAINSCAPE I MOUNTAINSCAPE II MOUNTAINSCAPE IV Barre Phillips Mountainscapes ECM : 1976 BP, bass; John Surman, soprano and baritone sax, bass clarinet, synthesizer; John Abercrombie, guitar; Dieter Feichtner, synthesizer; Stu Martin, drums, synthesizer. Chilly Jay Chill: Mountainscapes sits at a number of different crossroads. European and American sensibilities. The mix of jazz, [...]
Originally posted 2 July 2007 . MOUNTAINSCAPE I MOUNTAINSCAPE II MOUNTAINSCAPE IV Barre Phillips Mountainscapes ECM : 1976 BP, bass; John Surman, soprano and baritone sax, bass clarinet, synthesizer; John Abercrombie, guitar; Dieter Feichtner, synthesizer; Stu Martin, drums, synthesizer. Chilly Jay Chill: Mountainscapes sits at a number of different crossroads. European and American sensibilities. The mix of jazz, [...]
[RSS Readers: See post to listen to audio] Many of you know Michael Cina's work as a Graphic Designer but he also has a great taste in music, he set some time aside and shared some music for the ISO50 readers, enjoy: Supersilent I am waiting for my copy to come, I preordered this half-way into listening to an advanced copy last year. I think Supersilent is pretty good (I love Deathprod ), but this is Supersilent at their best. Parts of [...]
Supersilent have roots in jazz, but to call them a jazz trio would be misleading. Their music sounds very little like what a layman might understand by 'jazz', the raucous, energetic form of music which disgusted classical snobs and appealed to the sort of audience who now favour Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne. They make music filtered through the ideas and aesthetic of some of the twentieth century's avant-garde composers: there are traces of Webern's chill experiments in their music, and echoes of Stockhausen's 'Kontakte' in their use of disconcerting, inhuman electronic noise. And yet one couldn't say they [...]
Given that they are a band famous for not even communicating with each other before or after their improvised performances, no-one, not even their members, can say that Supersilent are a predictable band. Having said that, the departure of drummer Jarle Vespestad seems to have knocked them into an entirely irregular orbit. Supersilent 9, their first as a trio, featured remaining members Arve Henriksen, Ståle Storløkken and Deathprod (I like to think that even Henrik Sten's mum calls him Deathprod) restricting themselves to Hammond organs, producing an album of wholly unfamiliar and entirely unearthly drones. As fascinating as this was, [...]
61. SUPERSILENT @ GULBENKIAN6 de Agosto de 2000No ano 2000, Rui Neves regressava à programação do Jazz em Agosto e, com ele, o evento anual da Gulbenkian lançou-se a nomes das fronteiras do jazz, para lá daquele território até, nas opiniões mais conservadoras. Foi neste contexto que surgiram os noruegueses Supersilent, improvisadores de primeira, num registo electro-acústico que faria escola no
if their aim in musical life was to create an utterly anonymous record then supersilent have come pretty close to that beige achievement. in addition to the usual faceless brandless detailless sleeve design, the aural aesthetic has been pared to the bloody bone. drummer's gone, so no beats. trumpet and voice abandoned in favour of all three of these rum norwegians jamming exclusively on hammond organs. so no idea who's playing what or when. and for the first time the collectives name is wholly justified; quiet to the point of almost not being there; of being reduced to some threatening [...]
there are quiet places also in the mind, he said meditatively. but we build bandstands and factories on them. deliberately - to put a stop to the quietness. ...all the thoughts, all the preoccupations in my head - round and round, continually ... what's it for? what's it all for? to put an end to [...]
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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 [...]
1. The Necks – Townsville ( Milk of Fish / ReR ) MP3: Townsville (Excerpt) Last October – in what normally would have been nothing but a typical autumn week with darkness setting in early and people wrapped in warm clothes, hiding from the cold wind – I experienced what was most definitely the musical highlight of the year for me. Maybe even the musical highlight of many, many years. That entire week the city was besieged by music and film dedicated to "minimalist" composer and legend Philip Glass. Every [...]
Over the course of their previous seven albums (or five, if the concurrently released first three count as one, or four if you somewhat pettily classify the live DVD elsewhere) Supersilent have developed their own language from what appeared initially to be the most abstract of Scandinavian typography. In between releases, the four members' extra-curricular travels meant that with each release they brought new-found grammatical rules and logics back to this otherwise hermetically sealed world – in fact their by the time of their last release they had even managed to incorporate huge amounts of rhythm, even if it was [...]
Photo credit: Soul Dirty With this instalment we gradually start our exploration of the infinite emptiness of space, black holes and time bending energy. But watch out, while we will continue to move away from the sonic attack of exploding stars and spiralling galaxies and into the darkest corners of space, we will encounter some strange and mind baffling places. The bizarre and alienating sounds of Pamelia Kurstin's theremin for example. Quite possibly one of my favourite records of this year so far. With this, the overall feeling of this part is [...]
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