Spellbinding Music
Genre-bending & spine-tingling
Somewhat like the public letter-writers of the past, American artistic polymath Peter Broderick has adopted a similar role lately as a “public” musician, in addition to his creative work as a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer. “Ever since I started releasing records in 2007”, notes the musician, “people have …
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"Elska" means love. "Von" means hope. Love and hope. Two things every single person longs for and needs, and yet two things much too lacking in our world. A professional musician composing for film, TV and web, Minneapolis-based Chris Bartels also runs his own hybrid record label/production house Anthem Falls Music as an …
As years go by and as the collective embark on different projects, the term “Hidden Orchestra” keeps taking on a multitude of new meanings. Originally a reference to the fact that orchestras playing for silent films in theatres were hidden from view, every band’s releases also commonly “feature a wide variety of guest musicians …
Traditional jazz drummers are usually only given a few bars to shine, and consequently these short solos are bursting with brilliant ideas and glimpses of pure rhythmic feel. I began to isolate and reprogram fragments of these rhythmic gems […] read the cover notes to Hidden Orchestra’s first record Night Walks (2010) by …
Since the early 1990s, Norwegian pianist and composer Bugge Wesseltoft has been a fervent innovator, always keen to experiment with a new and contemporary jazz sound - either as a collaborator with Jan Garbarek, Sidsel Endresel or Arild Andersen, as a solo performer, as a leader with his groundbreaking New Conception of Jazz or …
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In 1996, Norwegian jazz pianist and composer Bugge Wesseltoft formed New Conception of Jazz, a project which endeavoured to integrate improvisation on acoustic instruments with dancefloor beats and electronics. Because no other music labels were showing any interest in his own music, the musician set up his own imprint that year …
