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Gjerstad, Frode / Kalle Moberg / Paal Nilssen-Love: Time Sound Shape
Gjerstad, Frode / Kalle Moberg / Paal Nilssen-Love:
Time Sound Shape

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $14.95    




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A surprising trio for percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love and wind player Frode Gjerstad, who more typically play assertive free jazz of enthusiastic character and technical skill, but here joined by fellow Norwegian, accordionist Kalle Moberg, they instead turn in a beautifully reflective set with Paal primarily playing gongs, using the resonance of Oslo's Gamle Aker Kirke.

Large Unit (Paal Nilssen-Love): Clusterfuck
Large Unit (Paal Nilssen-Love):
Clusterfuck

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $14.95    




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One of a pair of albums--New Map and Clusterfuck--recorded in the studio in Oslo, Norway by percussionist and composer Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit, a 15-piece, incredibly flexible and open-minded ensemble, here improvising over a work of graphic notation where the composed structures are balanced with blocks of improvisation, allowing for quick dynamic shifts in direction.

Large Unit (Paal Nilssen-Love): New Map
Large Unit (Paal Nilssen-Love):
New Map

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $14.95    




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One of a pair of albums--New Map and Clusterfuck--recorded in the studio in Oslo, Norway by percussionist and composer Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit, a 15-piece, incredibly flexible and open-minded ensemble, here performing a work where the improvisers are provided with a series of open-form "cells"--concrete ideas, notes and directions--to which they must respond.

Neumann, Calle / Ketil Gutvik / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten / Paal Nilssen-Love: New Dance
Neumann, Calle / Ketil Gutvik / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten / Paal Nilssen-Love:
New Dance

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $15.95    




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After the 2019 retrospective box-set of the late 90s, legendary band The Quintet, and after the sad passing of bassist Bjornar Andresen, saxophonist Carl Magnus Neumann, guitarist Ketil Gutvik and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love decided to form a new quartet, adding bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, commencing their organization with this outstanding 2020 live concert in Oslo.

Fish & Steel (Mats Aleklint / Per-Ake Holmlander / Paal Nilssen-Love): Fish & Steel
Fish & Steel (Mats Aleklint / Per-Ake Holmlander / Paal Nilssen-Love):
Fish & Steel

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $14.95    




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Distilling a trio from Paal Nillsen-Love's Large Unit results in Fish & Steel, the trio of Mats Aleklint on trombone, Per Ake Holmlander on tuba, and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums & percussion, an unusual brass & drum orchestration in two extended improvisations with an experimental bent that veers in and out of jazz forms with a mischievous attitude and masterful playing.

McPhee, Joe / Paal Nilssen Love: Song for the Big Chief
McPhee, Joe / Paal Nilssen Love:
Song for the Big Chief

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $14.95    




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Named for Sunny Murray's 1969 album "Big Chief", the long-runing collaborations of tenor saxophonist & pocket trumpeter Joe McPhee and drummer/percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love pay tribute to the late drummer Sunny Murray in this concert recording at London's Cafe Oto for a dynamic dialog of free jazz, with two nuanced free improv pieces including a "Fantasy for Lester [Bowie]".

Quintet, The (Neumann / Andresen / Opsvik / Gutvik / Nilssen-Love): Events 1998-1999 [5 CDs]
Quintet, The (Neumann / Andresen / Opsvik / Gutvik / Nilssen-Love):
Events 1998-1999 [5 CDs]

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $54.95    




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A 5 CD box set that tells the story of The Quintet, which brought two of the most important proponents of Norwegian free jazz in the 60s and 70s--saxophonist Carl Magnus Neumann and bassist Bjornar Andresen--together with younger generation drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, bassist Eivind Opsvik, and guitarist Ketil Gutvik, reissuing their 1999 album and adding 4 studio and live sessions.

Arashi (Akira Sakata / Johan Berthling / Paal Nilseen-Love): Jikan
Arashi (Akira Sakata / Johan Berthling / Paal Nilseen-Love):
Jikan

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $14.95    




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The third album from the Arashi trio of Akira Sakata on alto saxophone, Bb clarinet & vocals, Johan Berthling on double bass, and Paal Nilssen on Love on drums & percussion, formed in 2013 at the Molde Jazz Festival in Norway and touring steadily since, here captured live at Pit Inn, in Tokyo for four intense free improvisations of inspired power.

Vandermark, Ken / Paal Nilssen-Love: Screen-Off
Vandermark, Ken / Paal Nilssen-Love:
Screen-Off

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $14.95    




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For their 10th album, the duo of multi-reedist Ken Vandermark and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love took inspiration from experimental cinema, enlisting producer Lasse Marhaug to scour YouTube for concerts from their past 10 years, extracting 60 seconds of audio from each and joining them into 2-minute segments, 21 of which create this unusual album of awe-inspiring performance.

Nilssen-Love, Paal: New Brazilian Funk
Nilssen-Love, Paal:
New Brazilian Funk

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $14.95    




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Brought together by dummer Paal Nilssen-Love for the 2018 Roskilde Festival in Denmark, this quintet merges Norwegians Nilssen-Love and long-time collaborator Frode Gjerstad on alto sax with the Brazilian trio of Felipe Zenicola on electric bass, Kiko Dinucci on electric guitar, and Paulinho Bicolor on cuica, for a thrilling and exuberant concert of energetic improvisation.

Yoshihide, Otomo / Paal Nilssen-Love: 19th of May, 2016
Yoshihide, Otomo / Paal Nilssen-Love:
19th of May, 2016

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $15.95    




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An intensively diverse and thrilling game of "cat and dog" between Norwegian percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love and Japanese guitarist Otomo Yoshihide, performing live at Dom Cultural Center, Moscow, Russia in 2016 for two extended improvisations that exemplify incredible technical skills, reflective and introspective dialog, and cathartic release; absolutely impressive.

Large Unit: Fluku
Large Unit:
Fluku

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $14.95    




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The 3rd album from Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love's big band Large Unit, here in a 12-member configuration, adding saxophonist Kristoffer Berre Alberts (Starlite Motel, Cortex) to the band, in an album centered on Nillsen-Love's penned title track "Fluku", and the equally impressive "Playgo", large complex works that showcase the group's collective and individual voices.

Gjerstad, Frode / Paal Nilssen-Love : Nearby Faraway
Gjerstad, Frode / Paal Nilssen-Love :
Nearby Faraway

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $15.95    




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The 25 year collaboration of Norwegian free improvisers Frode Gjerstad on saxophones and clarinets and drummer/percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love, starting with Circulasione Totale Orchestra and best experienced in their duo recordings, here in an album dedicated to Frode's close friend and musical colleague, pianist and accordion player Elvin One Pedersen.

Pan-Scan Ensemble: Air And Light And Time And Space
Pan-Scan Ensemble:
Air And Light And Time And Space

(PNL -- Norway )


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"Pan-Scan" refers to pan-Scandinavian, and the nine players on this thrilling and joyful recordings are all of that origin, performing live at Blow Out in Mir, Oslo, Norway in 2016, including both Lotte Anker and Ann Hogberg on sax, Thomas Johansson, Emil Stranberg and Goran Kajfes on trumpet, Sten Sandell on piano, and Paal Nilssen-Love and Stale Liavik on drums.

Nilssen-Love, Paal: News From the Junkyard [VINYL]
Nilssen-Love, Paal:
News From the Junkyard [VINYL]

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $24.95    




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Assembling a wide range of percussive instruments accumulated through world travels, from Korean gongs to scrap metal sheets from Ethiopia, Paal Nilssen-Love presents an intense and wide-ranging solo percussion tour-de-force, recorded in Oslo by frequent collaborator Lasse Marhaug.

Yagi, Michiyo / Lasse Marhaug / Paal Nilssen-Love: Angular Mass
Yagi, Michiyo / Lasse Marhaug / Paal Nilssen-Love:
Angular Mass

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $14.95    




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Japanese Koto virtuoso Michiyo Yagi joins the longstanding duo of drummer Paal-Nilssen-Love and electronics wizard Lasse Marhaug for a session of extended improvisations, driving the traditional Japanese instruments into non-idiomatic and percussive extremes.

Large Unit: Ana
Large Unit:
Ana

(PNL -- Norway )


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Drummer Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit recorded this ecstatic, Brazilian influenced material in 2015 after a mammoth European and North-American tour, hours after their performance at the 2015 Oslo Jazzfestival with an extended line-up with Brazilian percussion players.

Gjerstad, Frode / Jon Rune Strom / Paal Nilssen-Love: Steam In the Casa
Gjerstad, Frode / Jon Rune Strom / Paal Nilssen-Love:
Steam In the Casa

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $14.95    




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A live recording from the Casa Del Popolo club in Montreal, Canada, named because Gjerstad was upset that Air Canada had messed up his sax in transit, which he played regardless; his frustration pushed him into an overwhelmingly amazing set of smoking free jazz!

Lacerda / Manso / Nilssen-Love / Zenicola: Bota Fogo
Lacerda / Manso / Nilssen-Love / Zenicola:
Bota Fogo

(Bocian Records 2014/QTV/PNL -- Norway )


Price: $15.95    




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A live recording of two extended improvisations at Audio Rebel's Quintavant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from the quartet of Arthur Lacerda on guitar and electronics, electric bassist Felipe Zenicola, guitarist Eduardo Manso, and drummer/percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love.

Nilssen-Love, Paal Large Unit: Erta Ale [4 LP BOX SET]
Nilssen-Love, Paal Large Unit:
Erta Ale [4 LP BOX SET]

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $59.95    




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Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit of some of Norway's brightest young improvisers in a 4 LP box set with a bonus CD & flexi disc, recorded live during their 2014 tour, performing Nilssen-Love's compositions that focus on interaction, free improvisation, sound, dynamics and energy.

Nilssen-Love, Paal Large Unit: Erta Ale [3 CD BOX SET]
Nilssen-Love, Paal Large Unit:
Erta Ale [3 CD BOX SET]

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $34.95    




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Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit of some of Norway's brightest young improvisers in a solid 3-CD box set recorded live during their 2014 tour, performing Nilssen-Love's compositions that focus on interaction, free improvisation, sound, dynamics and energy.

Satoh, Masahiko / Paal Nilssen-Love: Spring Snow
Satoh, Masahiko / Paal Nilssen-Love:
Spring Snow

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $15.95    




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Tokyo pianist Masahiko Satoh recorded these two extended improvisations with Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love in concert at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo in 2013, a remarkable dialog of intense technical power and creative passion.

Nilssen-Love, Paal Large Unit: First Blow [VINYL EP]
Nilssen-Love, Paal Large Unit:
First Blow [VINYL EP]

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $15.95    




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Norway's younger generation of improvising musicians, acoustic and electronic, perform in percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit from their first EP, a live recording from Molde Jazzfestival 2013.

Double Tandem (Baars / Vandermark / Nilssen-Love): Cement
Double Tandem (Baars / Vandermark / Nilssen-Love):
Cement

(PNL -- Norway )


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Performing live at Cementen in Norway, the trio of drummer Paal Nilssen-Love with reed players Ken Vandermark and Ab Baars, 3 intense yet playful improvisations from 3 masters of the form.

Nilssen-Love / Terrie Ex: Hurgu!
Nilssen-Love / Terrie Ex:
Hurgu!

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $15.95    




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Ex guitarist Terrie and drummer/percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love met in the Jottem Studio in Wormerveer, NL, to record these 4 extended and rugged improvisations; rhythm vs strings with a skronky temperament.

Slugfield (Nilssen-Love / Marhaug / Ratkje): Slime Zone
Slugfield (Nilssen-Love / Marhaug / Ratkje):
Slime Zone

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $15.95    




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The trio of drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, electronic and turntable artist Lasse Marhaug and vocalist/electronic artist Maja Solveig Kjestrup Ratkje met at Cafe Mono during the Oslo Jazz Festival to perform these excellent and disturbing recordings.

Nilssen-Love, Paal : Miro
Nilssen-Love, Paal :
Miro

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $16.95    




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An incredible hour-long 6 part drum set from one of Europe's most active drummers, performing live at Foundacio Joan Miro in Barceloa during the Nits de Music series.

Nilssen-Love, Paal: 27 Years Later
Nilssen-Love, Paal:
27 Years Later

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $16.95    




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Drummer and percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love performed this incredibly diverse solo set at the Forum, Norway during the 2002 Molde International Jazz Festival.

Brotzmann / Nilssen-Love / Pupillo: Roma
Brotzmann / Nilssen-Love / Pupillo:
Roma

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $16.95    




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The trio of Peter Brotzmann, Massimo Pupillo (Zu) and Paal Nilssen-Love seriously tearing it up at the Casa del Jazz in Rome, December 2008.

Sandell, Sten: Face of Tokyo
Sandell, Sten:
Face of Tokyo

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $16.95    




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Two extended improvisations from pianist Sten Sandell's trio with bassist Johan Berthling and drummer Paal Nillsen-Love, recorded live in Tokyo in 2008.

Marhaug, Lasse / Nilssen-Love, Paal: Stalk
Marhaug, Lasse / Nilssen-Love, Paal:
Stalk

(PNL -- Norway )


Price: $16.95    




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Paal Nilssen-Love with Lasse Marhaug, recorded and edited by Fe-mail/Spunk Hild Sofie Tafjord to create 6 fascinating free-form compositions of sound and texture.



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