Tag: sampling

  • Hidden Orchestra: Wingbeats EP

    Hidden Orchestra: Wingbeats EP

    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…

  • Hidden Orchestra: Archipelago

    Hidden Orchestra: Archipelago

    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…

  • Wesseltoft Schwarz Berglund: Trialogue

    Wesseltoft Schwarz Berglund: Trialogue

    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…

  • Bugge Wesseltoft: Moving

    Bugge Wesseltoft: Moving

    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…

  • Chassol: Big Sun

    Chassol: Big Sun

    Released on Bertrand Burgalat’s Paris based record label Tricatel in May 2015 last – a label which is entirely dedicated to the promotion of genre-breaking acts such as French actress Valérie Lemercier or 2010 Goncourt Prize winner Michel Houellebecq – Big Sun is the third…

  • Erik Satie et les Nouveaux Jeunes Version 2

    Erik Satie et les Nouveaux Jeunes Version 2

    Modern classical composer Max Richter’s introduction to “Erik Sleeping”, his “recomposition” of Erik Satie’s “Gnossienne n°1” for the newly released Erik Satie & les Nouveaux Jeunes – Version 2 on Arbouse Recordings (2015) perhaps epitomises best the overall spirit of the project: I learnt to perform…

  • Arve Henriksen: Migration

    Arve Henriksen: Migration

    In addition to his improvised work with experimental electronica trio Supersilent, Arve Henriksen has also perfected over the years a characteristic floating trumpet sound that is mainly derived from his study of the Japanese Shakuhachi flute. Confirming the musician’s status as a major improviser and…

  • Arve Henriksen: Opening image

    Arve Henriksen: Opening image

    Norwegian trumpet player Arve Henriksen is a fascinating and multi-faceted musician who initially studied formal jazz. But since the 1990s, he has moved away from traditional formations to explore different approaches to sound and improvisation. A founding member of avant-garde trio Supersilent, the trumpet player…