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Oswald, Margaux Collateral Damage: In Time, Hollow Oaks Become Chapels (Clean Feed)

The debut of this international septet with three double basses, two electric guitars, drums, and grand piano, led by pianist Margaux Oswald, who chose these players for their connection to Copenhagen and their previous collaborations in varying configurations, here their collective improvisations employing subgroups juxtaposed to full ensemble power through texture and timbre.
 

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Margaux Oswald-piano

Aurelijus Uzameckis-double bass

Uldis Vitols-double bass

Rafal Rozalski-double bass

Niklas Fite-electric guitar

Hein Westgaard-electric guitar

Simon Forchhammer-drums


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UPC: 5609063006773

Label: Clean Feed
Catalog ID: CF677CD
Squidco Product Code: 35087

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark, on April 20th, 2021, by Jakob Makongo.

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"Margaux Oswald's new project Collateral Damage, an international septet with three double basses, two electric guitars, drums, and grand piano, in its first album released on Clean Feed Records with the title In Time, Hollow Oaks Become Chapels.

After a well received solo record and duo recordings with Jesper Zeuthen and Kasper Tranberg, Margaux Oswald is now presenting her first work as a leader of a large group of musicians. The ensemble was specifically chosen for its textural, timbral capabilities, as well as being a group of good friends and colleagues all having a connection to Margaux's current hometown of Copenhagen.

Collateral Damage is an inter-European congregation creating spontaneous, multilayered music. The constellation could be described as unorthodox: a Swiss pianist, a Danish drummer, two guitarists, one Swedish and one Norwegian, and three double bassists: one Polish, one Latvian, and one Lithuanian. The diversity of languages mirrors the richness and multiplicity of musical perspectives inherent in this improvised chamber ensemble.

The group sometimes moves together as one big textural entity, and other times it lets itself differentiate into several contrapuntal musical layers. The three double basses, along with the piano, allow for a nuanced and complex exploration of both the low and high extremes of the instruments, while the jagged timbral explorations of the guitars fill out the middle register, combining with rattles, thumps, clashes, and percussive attacks from the cymbals and drums to create an utterly unique sound world.

The ensemble spontaneously alternates between smaller and larger sub-groupings and constantly shifts the musical roles and responsibilities. This is highly complex music with skilled musicians that could not be achieved without intense listening, strong personal initiatives, and respect for the musical choices of their bandmates.

This is free improvised music, but Margaux Oswald's artistic vision comes through crystal clear by way of the deliberate choice of musicians both in terms of their instruments and their personalities, the editing, choosing, and ordering of the tracks of the album, as well as the mysterious unspoken direction a leader can give to an improvised ensemble."-Clean Feed


Artist Biographies

"Margaux Oswald is a pianist of French-Filipina origin, born in Geneva, and currently based in Copenhagen. She has played the piano since the age of 5, and is now committed to the art of free improvisation. She has recorded with Swedish guitarist Niklas Fite (Fire! Orchestra), in a duo with Danish trumpeter Kasper Tranberg, and in a trio with Argentine saxophonist Albert Cirera & bassist Johannes Nästesjö."

-Monoopiano, Disocgs (https://www.monopiano.com/program)
10/2/2024

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"Aurelijus Uzameckis is a composer, bassist and organizer. Constantly moving forward."

-Aurelijus Uzameckis Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/aurelijus-uzameckis)
10/2/2024

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Uldis Vītols is a double basssit from Latvia.

-Squidco 10/2/2024

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"Rafal Różalski - double bassist, improviser. He currently lives in Copenhagen where he graduated from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory. Member of many projects on the borderline of improvised music, jazz and rock. Co-founder of RASP Lovers, Entropia Ensemble, PE Quartet, ALAWARI, Second Half of August band, among others."

-Inbetween Poland & Norway (https://inbetween.avantart.pl/en/bio/rafal-rozalski/)
10/2/2024

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"Guitarist Niklas Fite is a Swedish improviser, guitarist and banjoist. He was born 1995 in Stockholm."

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/6435451-Niklas-Fite)
10/2/2024

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"Hein Westgaard is a Norwegian guitarist, improviser and composer, based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Hein Westgaard Trio is a guitar-bass-and-drums trio that plays exploratory, genre-curious music, freely mixing elaborate compositions with open improvisations."

-Hein Westgaard Bandcamp (https://heinwestgaardtrio.bandcamp.com/)
10/2/2024

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"Simon Forchhammer is a Danish drummer, known for the groups Alawari. He is a member of alto saxophonist Mia Dyberg's Trio."

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/8195102-Simon-Forchhammer)
10/2/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Elcines 4:54

2. Secilen 7:56

3. Scleein 3:16

4. Nicelse 4:51

5. Clinese 6:14

6. Escinel 6:31

7. Insecle 7:35

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