{"title":"Jazzland","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"rymden-valleys-mountains-cd","title":"Rymden - Valleys \u0026 Mountains CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter their previous excursions into the outer cosmos - the highly acclaimed studio albums \"Reflections and Odysseys\", \"Space Sailors\" and the powerful live album \"RYMDEN+KORK\" - RYMDEN have returned to Earth with their new album, “Valleys and Mountains”. However, as one might expect from the trio of Bugge Wesseltoft, Magnus Öström and Dan Berglund, the music is not strictly earthbound - the inner cosmos, dreams and visions offer new spaces to explore, alongside bucolic rambles and treks. The instrumentation and techniques are once again diversified, the styles multiplied; yet all remains indisputably the music of RYMDEN.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a dual sense of nostalgia and hope for the future, a feeling of rediscovery replacing loss. There is an awareness of the natural world and our place within it, the part it plays in our lives, and how our lives are simply part of something greater than ourselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe homages to the natural world all share a childlike quality, a sense of joyful exuberance and freedom, unshackled from our materialistic digital world and its endless bombardment of unnecessary (dis\/mis)-information. \"The Hike\" (by Wesseltoft) captures the many moods that excursions into natural landscapes create - the moments of revelation and wonder, exhaustion and replenishment - and features John Scofield on guitar, purposefully meandering wherever the path may lead. \"A Walk in The Woods\" and \"The Mountain\" (both by Öström) have a sprightly lightness that echoes Vince Guaraldi. The music does not seek to emulate nature's grandeur, but an gives an unequivocal yet humble expression of admiration for it. \"Ro\" (by Wesseltoft) is a meditative ballad, gently shuffling, sparingly decorated, filled with the tranquility of its title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe expeditions to the interior world offer a much more sedate set of compositions, largely - and appropriately - more abstract. \"Song From The Valley\" (a shared composition by the trio) creates a new musical topography of atmospheric and textural elements, abstract, yet familiar, meditative, dramatic, peaceful. \"Milam Bardo\" (another trio composition) enters a melodic dreamscape, progressing on a steady staccato bowed bassline. \"Himmel\" (by Berglund) is a pensive, slightly melancholy piece, led by Berglund's bowed bass, where each of the trio apply the lightest of touches to their playing before ascending steadily to a driving yet atmospheric denouement that gently deconstructs towards silence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emmo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42222286504030,"sku":"3779599","price":220.0,"currency_code":"NOK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/6752\/3422\/files\/3779599.jpg?v=1764256323"},{"product_id":"rymden-kork-cd","title":"Rymden + KORK CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince forming in 2018 RYMDEN has established itself as one of the leading piano trios to ever emerge\u003cbr\u003efrom the Nordic Jazz scene. All three members bring with them long-confirmed and lauded histories\u003cbr\u003eas innovators in jazz: Berglund and Öström via the Esbjörn Svensson Trio and their own projects\u003cbr\u003e(Tonbruket and Magnus Öström Group respectively); Wesseltoft via his New Conception of Jazz and\u003cbr\u003eother projects. Now, after several albums and many concerts, they meet KORK, an orchestra capable\u003cbr\u003eof responding to the trifold creative power that RYMDEN vigorously generates. KORK, for over threequarters\u003cbr\u003eof a century has followed its own musical curiosity across genres, from \"standard\"\u003cbr\u003eorchestral repertoire, both classical and contemporary, to jazz, rock, and pop. Through close\u003cbr\u003eassociation with NRK, KORK has been heard across the world through its participation in the annual\u003cbr\u003eNobel Peace Prize concert and the Eurovision Song Contests in 1986 and 1996.\u003cbr\u003eThe combination of RYMDEN and KORK brings even greater contrast to music that already had its fair\u003cbr\u003eshare of light and shade and brings a broader textural palette that enriches and defamiliarizes the\u003cbr\u003ecompositions. These new arrangements expand on their source material, creating a different musical\u003cbr\u003eworld without sacrifice of its original spirit. The compositions, already filled with drama or meditative\u003cbr\u003epassages, menace or light-hearted humour, rhythmic drive or fragmentary expression, are repainted,\u003cbr\u003esometimes with the lightest of nuanced touches, other times with densely layered maximalism.\u003cbr\u003eWhere the collaboration of RYMDEN and KORK may have been unexpected for some, the perfect\u003cbr\u003ealignment of the results suggest that it was inevitable.\u003cbr\u003eRecorded at NRK Store Studio, Oslo, February 11th 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emmo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42222366326878,"sku":"3779512","price":220.0,"currency_code":"NOK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/6752\/3422\/files\/3779512.jpg?v=1764257176"},{"product_id":"bugge-wesseltoft-be-am-cd","title":"Bugge Wesseltoft - be am CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 25 years since Bugge Wesseltoft founded Jazzland Recordings, he has engaged in numerous group projects and collaborations such as New Conception of Jazz, duos with the likes of Sidsel Endresen, Henning Kraggerud and Henrik Schwarz, one-off projects such as Trialogue, Bugge and Friends, and OKWorld! And of course, the super-trio RYMDEN. However, it is in his solo material that we can glimpse the true soul behind the effervescent and mercurial mind of one of the most influential and important Norwegian musicians of an entire generation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOn \"Be Am\", his latest solo album, Wesseltoft has allowed his creative impulses to wander where they may - no preset rules to govern the composition and production, no obligations to (not) use electronics, not even a will to be totally alone. This is pure playing and composition, where the music speaks freely by whatever means it will.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the more meditative pieces, there is a sense of both natural calm and imposed calm, the difference between which should be apparent to anyone who has suffered the changes of the COVID lockdown periods - there are times when we naturally experience a mental peace, while there are others when we have to bring ourselves, often with great strength of will, to something approximating it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"This album was created during a challenging time for all of us, \" says Bugge. \"While it was inevitable that all the uncertainty, doubt and frustration present would be reflected in the music, it was made with the awareness that times like these come and go, that, in the end, everything will be OK. While there is always the knowledge that there is light at the end of the tunnel, sometimes you can find a way to keep the tunnel illuminated, just enough to at least see you through.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMany of the pieces here have the feeling of being wordless songs - indeed, no words are needed when the notes convey all that is needed on tracks like \"Tide\" or \"State\". The arrival of Håkon Kornstad on the track pairing of \"Emergence\" and \"Roads\" shifts the mood from one of peace within solitude to peace within company, the latter track being an understated dialogue, a musical soundtrack for watching the world hustling and bustling, or sleeping its way towards a new day. Tracks such as \"Messenger\", \"Green\" and \"Be Am\" throw more angular shapes, musical shadow-play where unexpected progressions shift to moments of gospel uplift before taking unanticipated shifts towards unexpected harmony. With \"Life\", kalimba accompanied by birdsong loops, carrying us into a piece that takes tentative but exact steps between positions, like tai chi in musical form. \"Gonna Be OK\", returns to the moods established at the beginning of the album in more optimistic colouring, while \"Deeper\" transports us across a unusual exploration of the lower reaches of the piano, uncertain, yet familiar, transforming itself with each new chord. \"Sunbeams through leaves softly rustling\" closes the album with that beautiful Satie-like melodic simplicity that Bugge has made his own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emmo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42223820996702,"sku":"3779432","price":200.0,"currency_code":"NOK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/6752\/3422\/files\/3779432.jpg?v=1764330679"},{"product_id":"eivind-aarset-phantasmagoria-or-a-different-kind-of-journey-cd","title":"Eivind Aarset - Phantasmagoria, or A Different Kind of Journey CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Phantasmagoria, or A Different Kind of Journey\" is the latest album by the Eivind Aarset 4tet, to be released September 2021 at Punkt Festival, Kristiansand. Featuring Eivind Aarset, Wetle Holte, Erland Dahlen and Audun Erlien, the album is no departure in terms of the compositional quality contained therein, as it remains gold standard. But sonically and texturally? This album features more traditional guitar sounds and techniques than can be found on almost all of his previous albums taken together, while still incorporating his signature tonal manipulations that render the guitar sound into almost unrecognizable forms. The album traverses the full gamut of the instrument's tonal possibilities, from Joe Pass tones to ambient textural soundbeds, from blistering shredding to controlled noise and signal. The line-up is augmented by Jan Bang and John Derek Bishop on several tracks, and Arve Henriksen on one.\u003cbr\u003eThe compositions by turns can be straightforward instrumentals with a heavy groove, rhapsodic tone poems, quasi-ambient jazz, expressionistic campaigns of sonic annihilation, delicate variations and improvisational explorations built upon melody and harmony, and, not infrequently, a combination of any or all of the above.\u003cbr\u003eThe \"Different Kind of Journey\" of \"Phantasmagoria\" takes us through a preamble consisting of the hazy fuzz of \"Intoxication\" with its lazy backbeat and psychedelic tightrope walk of dreamscape over chaos, to \"Pearl Hunter\" with its bossanova groove filtered through ambient rock. From there we arrive at \"Outbound or Stubb1\" where the main leg of the journey begins and the beats kick in with greater intensity, and where post-punk guitar minimalism is given a 2021 makeover, before moving to \"Duløc or The Cat's Eye\" where 60s B-Movie score tropes blend with 70s avant garde and art rock, then stumble through a wormhole that takes them almost 50 years into the future. \"Manta Ray or Soft Spot\", with Arve Henriksen on trumpets, effortlessly glides into view, a sonic space where the marine vibes eddy and whirl with dreamy undertows and sun-kissed waves. Next on the itinerary is \"Didn't See This One Coming\", an aptly titled track that is better listened to than described (suffice to say, this is NOT something anyone familiar with Aarset's work would have expected). From the utterly unexpected, we move to \"Soft Grey Ghosts\", a textural piece that feels familiar, yet is somehow disconnected, drifting and swaggering with an extra step. The second stage of the journey progresses to its close with “Inbound or Stubb2”, the more experienced sibling of “Outbound or Stubb1\", one that quotes from the journey and introduces new vocabulary and dialects extrapolated from it. The third and final leg of the journey is encapsulated in \"Light on Sanzu River\", a piece loosely derived from \"Waiting on a Boat\" by Anneli Drecker: filled with deep nostalgia for the past that lies behind, it also looks forward to the oncoming future with a bright optimism, a certainty that this part of the journey will lead to a better time and place.\u003cbr\u003e\"Phantasmagoria, Or a Different Kind of Journey\" is an album that delivers a multifaceted experience: it is a soundtrack to an inner journey of remembered or imaginary landscapes and spaces; a travelogue of musical styles, sounds and eras; a simulacrum of the live touring experience. This album, perhaps more than any of his previous releases, is one that proudly and confidently wears Aarset's influences on its sleeve - a bold move, but one that serves to underline how he is infinitely more than the sum of those influences. This latest chapter in his weaving of the unified tapestry of his career shows how Aarset is capable of finding new threads in unexpected colours, of innovation and reinvention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emmo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42223821652062,"sku":"3779391","price":220.0,"currency_code":"NOK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/6752\/3422\/files\/3779391.jpg?v=1764331193"},{"product_id":"bugge-wesseltoft-og-henrik-schwarz-duo-ii-cd","title":"Bugge Wesseltoft og Henrik Schwarz - Duo II CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eWesseltoft Schwarz return with a new selection of tracks, DUOII, demonstrating that while neither acclaimed jazz composer and keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft nor electronics maestro and producer Henrik Schwarz could be described as predictable, as a duo they are absolutely mercurial. Their natural affinity and symbiotic musical relationship seem to provide both with equal amounts of inquisitive, experimental and creative energy, and all without sacrificing their accessibility. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis second collaboration album (or third, if you also include the equally superb \"Trialogue\" where the duo was joined by bassist Dan Berglund - of EST, Tonbruket and RYMDEN fame) travels the sonic landscapes of their imaginations, in all directions. Like its predecessor, the album retains that organic quality that allowed the music to breathe and expand, blurring the distinction between electronic and acoustic, and between live and sampled performance. However, that is where the similarities end, as this time their stylistic mutations have followed different paths, and they have augmented their sound with guest musicians and vocalists, conjuring different vibes, sounds, methods and moods - all while remaining distinctly Wesseltoft Schwarz.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe sparseness of opener \"Woodened Stone\" with its insistent melodic percussive figure and interweaving pads, overlaid with serene interjections of piano, lays an open and welcoming path to the rest of the album. \"Future Strings\" takes us on a new direction that initially seems like some alternate reality where Romantic orchestras incorporated synthesisers, while \"My First Life\" (featuring vocals from Kid Be Kid) presents us with the contrast of a fresh take on urban soul, complete with lush strings. The track pairing of \"Duolism\" (\"One Two\" and \"Two Two\") brings Solistenensemble Kaleidoscop, a string quartet (Paul Valikoski - violin, Grégoire Simon - violin, Ildiko Ludwig - Viola, and Boram Lie - Cello), into the mix, and the expanded sound first flirts with the baroque while retaining a distinctly pop sensibility, then moves into a resonant and rhythmic dynamic that is somehow minimalist while simultaneously swelling at the seams. \"Eye for an Eye\" continues with the quasi-minimalist feeling, while the strings give way to a synthesiser\/piano combo expanded by the voices of Jenniffer Kae, Jemma Endersby and Catharina Schorling, creating a piece of much larger scale than the constituent parts would suggest is possible. \"Basstorious\", featuring trumpeter Sebastian Studnitzky, brings together more traditional jazz elements, TB-303 style basslines, and the percussive stone\/woodblocks heard at the album's beginning, and shifts effortlessly between upbeat urban dance and hazy late-night moods without dropping a semiquaver or its melodic hooks. The album's closer, \"Now I'm Better\" gradually comes into focus, with low sine bass tones, a steady beat that emerges and recedes, vibraphone soloing interweaving with piano over an evolving soundscape - all before erupting into a full-on stomp, moving with an irresistible and optimistic determination. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis long-awaited sequel to DUO indicates Wesseltoft Schwarz's disregard for rules or received wisdom remains healthier than ever, and that their work - both live and in the studio - will never be lacking in innovation or surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emmo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42223856123998,"sku":"3779493","price":220.0,"currency_code":"NOK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/6752\/3422\/files\/3779493.jpg?v=1764331735"},{"product_id":"magnus-ostrom-a-room-for-travellers-cd","title":"Magnus Öström - A Room For Travellers CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e Magnus Öström Group\u003cbr\u003e - A Room For Travellers -\u003cbr\u003eDrummer and composer Magnus Öström and his band are finally back with a new \u003cbr\u003ealbum, his fourth to date.\u003cbr\u003eThe album, A Room For Travellers, is both about the traveller’s journey through \u003cbr\u003ethe world but equally about a journey inward, the journey within. Magnus’s hope \u003cbr\u003eis that for the listener the album can become a space to travel to, and to travel in, \u003cbr\u003ean infinite room. Both a little escapism from all the terrible things happening in \u003cbr\u003ethe world right now, but also a journey inward to understand oneself and one's \u003cbr\u003esurroundings on a deeper level.\u003cbr\u003eBut above all, the album is about being present in the present and seeing nature, \u003cbr\u003ethe oceans and our surroundings as part of ourselves and thereby hopefully \u003cbr\u003ebecoming humbler and more careful with what we have, and aware of what we \u003cbr\u003ecan lose.\u003cbr\u003eThe album, which clocks in at 40 minutes, contains 6 tracks, with a couple of songs \u003cbr\u003ethat are more like suites than a single song. 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Albumet \"New Conception of Jazz\" ble også kronet med Spellemann pris for beste jazz album i 1996. \u003cbr\u003eI kjølevannet av denne utgivelsen dukket det opp flere band og artister som satt Norge på jazzkartet. 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After a string of instrumental releases and two song based albums with the collaborative project Dark Star Safari, «Reading the Air» is his first vocal based solo album since 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album’s lyrical, lingering compositions, built around Bang’s voice, keyboards and electronics, are enhanced by an accomplished team: Singers Anneli Drecker (Bel Canto, Röyksopp, a-ha), ECM artist Simin Tander and young talent Benedikte Kløw Askedalen, trumpeter Arve Henriksen, duduk player Canberk Ulaş, percussionist Adam Rudolph, guitarist Eivind Aarset, bassist Audun Erlien and drummer Anders Engen. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e«Reading the Air» is co-produced and mixed by Jan Bang's long time musical partner and Punkt Festival co-founder Erik Honoré, who also contributed synthesizers and wrote the lyrics: Ambiguous meditations on transience and loss. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album opens with «Nameless», a haunting, subdued lament originally written for Bugge Wesseltoft’s charity project for the Moria Refugee Camp in Greece. Anneli Drecker sings this story together with Jan Bang over a tense foundation provided by Eivind Aarset’s guitar, Anders Engen’s drums and Audun Erlien’s bass, embellished by Canberk Ulaş’ duduk tones and Erik Honoré’s atmospherics. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title track follows, also telling a story of escape, of burned bridges and turned tables, centered around the phrase «Reading the Air» – a Japanese expression that can be translated to «sensing someone's feelings» or «interpreting the situation without words». The song is a subtle combination of pop and poetry, featuring Jan Bang’s long time friend and collaborator Arve Henriksen on trumpet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e«Burgundy» serves as a darker, more static counterpoint to the light, organic flow of «Reading the Air». Also here, the rhythm foundation is provided by bass player Audun Erlien and drummer Anders Engen, recorded together with Eivind Aarset’s guitar by engineer Johnny Skalleberg during the course of two sessions that took place five years apart, in 2014 and 2019. «Burgundy» also features Adam Rudolph on percussion, and Jan Bang’s multitracked voice conveys a cryptic tale of gender and conflict. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth composer Bang and lyricist Honoré refer to «Food for the Journey» as the album’s centerpiece. This is also a tale of loss and migration, but now the departure is more concrete. Both through the title – a term traditionally associated with the last meal, the reception of the Eucharist – and the sirens’ chorus multitracked by Simin Tander.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album's only cover song, «Delia» from Harry Belafonte’s 1954 album «Mark Twain and Other Folk Favorites», is written by Fred Brooks and Lester Judson. Also this song tells a story of loss and departure, and in Jan Bang’s arrangement, which is very different from Belafonte’s original, «Delia» becomes a slow, powerful torch song both celebrating and mourning love, performed by Bang together with singer Benedikte Kløw Askedalen. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of the album is organic and at times «live in the studio» sounding, but the synthesizer driven «War Paint» provides a metric contrast. The song is inspired by the very last exhibition by Norwegian sculptor and photographer Bård Breivik, where the artist’s face was decorated in ritualistic defiance to an illness that in the end proved impossible to defy. Also here, Simin Tander’s voice provides a warm counterpoint to Bang’s lead vocals, and Arve Henriksen contributes a fourth-worldly dimension. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e«Winter Sings», like «Delia», features «nature-as-character», and a hint of nostalgia: Parts of the melody are borrowed from the very first recording that Jan Bang ever released, also that together with Erik Honoré – an EP with the quartet Woodlands. Again, Canberk Ulaş contributes his traditional duduk, an Armenian wind instrument made of apricot wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe open-ended murder ballad «The Cards», a duet with Benedikte Kløw Askedalen, leads into the psychedelic «Cycle» which features Jan Bang and Anneli Drecker as the main characters in a musical film noir, singing of a descent into a maelstrom auralized by Eivind Aarset’s guitars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the closing piano\/synth ballad «No Paradise Lost», we return to Asian metaphors, but this time slightly tongue-in-cheek: The «hungry ghosts» of the final verse are creatures from Eastern mythologies, driven by unfulfilled cravings as a punishment for previous misdeeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading the Air will be released by Punkt Editions on CD, vinyl and digitally. Cover design by Nina Birkeland. 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