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Lindvall, Johan: Solo / Ensemble [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Swedish composer and pianist Johan Lindvall in a series of 27 works performed solo or in an ensemble with Vilde Sandve Alnaes (violin), Kristine Tjogersen(clarinet), Jan Martin Gismervik(percussion), Henrik Munkeby Norstebo(trombone), Ina Sagstuen(voice), & Fredrik Rasten(guitar).
 

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Vilde Sandve Alnaes -violin

Kristine Tjogersen-clarinet

Jan Martin Gismervik-percussion

Henrik Munkeby Norstebo-trombone

Ina Sagstuen-voice

Fredrik Rasten-guitar

Johan Lindvall-piano, composer


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UPC: 4011778040781

Label: Edition Wandelweiser Records
Catalog ID: EWR 1609/10
Squidco Product Code: 23041

Format: 2 CDs
Condition: New
Released: 2016
Country: Germany
Packaging: Cardstock 4 page foldover
Recorded at The Norwegian Academy Of Foreign Music, in Norway, during December 2015 and January 2016, by Kyrre Laastad.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"Johan Lindvall is a Swedish pianist and composer based in Oslo, Norway, born in 1990."


Artist Biographies

"Jan Martin Gismervik (born 1988 in Avaldsnes, Karmøy, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums), known from bands like Monkey Plot, PGA, Wolfram Trio.[1

Gismervik was raised in Avaldsnes, where he played in local groups. He cooperated within the duo "PGA" on the debut album Corrections (2012). On Corrections the "PGA" duo is assisted by Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (trombone) and Thorsten Lavik Larsen (trumpet) on two tracs."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Martin_Gismervik)
3/13/2024

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"Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (born 29 July 1986 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian trombonist.

Nørstebø who was born and raised in Trondheim, is a trombonist mainly active on the free impro scenes of jazz, contemporary and improvised music. Since 2005 he has worked primarily with free-improvised music, and organizes and plays in bands like Nørstebø/Myhr/Järmyr, Teknokrat, As deafness increases, Ensemble Coordonnateur and PerdieusNørstebøWakolbinger. Nørstebø also plays solo concerts. The album SOLO was released on the Portuguese label "Creative Sources" in summer 2011. In addition, players Nørstebø with the Oslo-based new music ensemble "Axiom" and "Önczkekvist improvising orchestra" with members from Norway, Austria and Czech Republic. He collaborates with musicians like Nina de Heney, Daniel Lercher, Raymond Strid, Naoko Sakata, Tomas Jäderlund, Moritz Zopf, Bernd Klug, Danielle Dahl, Rosi Rehformen, Rasmus Borg. Nørstebø completed a bachelor of music performance (improvisation/jazz) at Högskolan för scen och musik in Gothenburg (2011)."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Munkeby_N%C3%B8rsteb%C3%B8)
3/13/2024

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Fredrik Rasten, guitarist / improviser / composer "I am a Norwegian guitarist (b. 1988) working in the field of experimental music, both improvised and composed. My main focuses are exploring and utilizing the acoustic possibilities of the steel string guitar, motivated by a fascination for the almost tactile experiences of acoustic phenomena. The last months I have been working extensively with intonation, with an extended concept of consonance as a point of departure, both in solo work and in duos with trumpeter Torstein Lavik Larsen and bass player Jonathan Heilbron. I have also had the lucky opportunity to take lessons in this field with composer and violist Catherine Lamb.

Other music that I am inspired by includes wandelweiser music, traditional british folk and early music."



"Fredrik Rasten works with acoustic guitar and in exploring the possibilities for putting this instrument in new musical contexts. With extensive use of preparations and different non-tempered tunings, he creates warm sounds in gradual development. He also includes subtle use of the voice to make interfering thick timbres and tonalities in combination with the guitar. A goal for the music is to open a room for details that invites the listener inside the musical material in an active and exploring way.

He is also playing composed music, especially related to quiet / Wandelweiser music and Just Intonation music, and has performed pieces by Johan Lindvall, Antoine Beuger and Catherine Lamb."

-Fredrik Rasten Website (http://fredrikrasten.com/)
3/13/2024

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"Johan Lindvall is a Swedish pianist and composer based in Oslo, Norway, born in 1990."

-Squidco 3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



CD1



1. G Minor 2:21

2. G# Minor 1:52

3. D Major 0:55

4. C Major 1:32

5. Ab Major 2:34

6. Bb Minor 1:56

7. A Minor 1:09

8. C Minor 1:14

9. Db Minor 1:02

10. F Minor 1:42

11. C# Minor 1:36

12. F# Minor 0:53

13. F# Major 1:16

14. F Major 0:50

15. Eb Major 0:32

16. A Major 1:24

17. Bb Major 1:22

18. G Major 0:42

19. D Minor 0:54

20. E Major 1:38

21. B Minor 1:49

22. Eb Minor 2:10

23. B Major 1:14

24. E Minor 1:48

25. Winnaretta Singer 6:40

26. Violet Trefusis 5:55

27. Romaine Brooks 3:08

CD2



1. I 3:47

2. II 2:39

3. III 0:40

4. IV 0:58

5. V 1:54

6. VI 4:17

7. VII 0:47

8. VIII 1:32

9. IX 1:38

10. X 1:01

11. XI 4:16

12. XII 2:59

13. XIII 2:24

14. XIV 2:10

15. XV 3:46

16. I 1:23

17. II 1:11

18. III 7:44

19. Tombeau 4:35

20. IV 1:49

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