Release Date: 03 December 2021
Label: Losen Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7090025832635
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 03 December 2021
Label: Losen Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7090025832635
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
The keyboardist Bernt Moen is a very versatile musician who has featured on several releases on Losen Records, often in funk and fusion roles and can also be heard as a keyboardist for jazz-rock power quartet Red Kite on Rare Noise.
With the 'The Storm', Bernt Moen is back on the grand piano in both trio and solo piano settings. Recogised as one of Norway's most extraodinary musicains and composers, this album is his most personal release to date, giving us a real sense of his incrdible musicianship and personal direction in the world of paino trios.
"In the score to Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 (from 1801) there is written "Sonata quasi una fantasia." I started thinking about that phrase upon listening to Bernt Moen Trio's The Storm. My association was not to the fact that the popular name of Beethoven's sonata is the Moonlight Sonata, although references to nature or natural phenomena seem to be in common. But it was the "quasi una fantasia" that struck me - like a fantasy. As almost a musical genre, the fantasia is a musical composition rooted in improvisation, a free play with musical material, and listening to Bernt Moen's piano on this album may seem like an echo or a continuation of the fantasia in the European tradition of compositional music. Composition and improvisation as two sides of the same coin, as continuations of each other. The different characters of the pieces, the combination of trio and solo piano, makes The Storm an album to be heard as a whole. Three musicians fantasizing in sound." ERIK STEINSKOG
Personnel: Bernt Moen (piano), Fredrik Sahlander (bass), Jan Inge Nilsen (drums).
Tracklisting
Karin Nakagawa, Hans Tutzer & Paolino Dalla Port
Haakon Graf, Erik Smith & Per Mathisen
EH3
Arne Torvik Trio
EH3 (Erland Helbo, Frode Berg & Eric Smith)
Olga Konkova
Per Mathisen
Michael Aadal
Sun Speak
Robert Mitchell
Gregory Groover Jr.
McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter & Al Foster
Ruby Rushton
Rabbath Electric Orchestra
Sophisticated Ladies
Russ Lossing