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.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2022 Country: Norway Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Studio Paradiso, in Oslo, Norway, on September 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, 2021, by Christian Engfelt.
"In the autumn of 2021 a 15-piece strong Large Unit reunited at Studio Paradiso in Oslo to record two new albums: New Map and Clusterfuck. These two albums can be seen as twin releases, recorded and released in conjunction with each other, yet they are also different to each other.
Both albums follow the previous More Fun Please album from 2018, with Nilssen-Love working within the field of new music composition, taking inspiration from composers like John Cage, Morton Feldman and Cornelius Cardew.
For New Map Nilssen-Love provided the band with open-form "cells" of concrete ideas/notes/directions that the musicians had to respond to.
On Clusterfuck the approach was graphic notations. Both approaches gave the musicians more responsibility on how to shape the music. The compositional guidelines are balanced with blocks of improvisation, with the band veering from subtle passages to bursts of explosive blowouts. Two exciting new additions to the Large Unit catalogue at the end of 2022, which sets the tone for the band's ten- year anniversary in 2023."-PNL