Release Date: 15 April 2016
Label: Jazzland
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0687437791420
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
This trio, featuring guitarist Oddrun Lilja Jonsdottir, percussionist and vocalist Sanskriti Shrestha, and percussionist Tore Flatjord, produces a distinctly unique blend of jazz, Indian Raga, atmospheric improvisation, complex rhythms, textured expressionism, and spacious sonic architecture.
Jonsdottir's guitar, whether electric or acoustic, fluidly digs, climbs, weaves, strikes, hums, and sparkles throughout, whether dancing across jazz chordal improvisation, or rapidly chasing down what can only be described as Nordic gamaka runs. The layers of percussion provided by Shrestha and Flatjord drive the music forward, upward, or quietly create changing dimensions and shifting soundscapes. Shrestha's vocal contributions range from sung melody to vocal percussion, adding unexpected colouring and textural transitions to these evocative compositions. The music is meditative and contemplative, each track making a journey that is emotional, intellectual, and spiritual in equal measure. It rarely sits still, yet feels elegantly unified. There is strength, fragility, drama, tension, serenity, and even agitation to be found amid structures that move seamlessly between the gently undulating and the angular. This is a confident and inspired debut that delivers much and promises more for the future.
Jonsdottir and Shrestha's credentials are exemplary, and these have recently been augmented by their inclusion in Bugge Wesseltoft's 2016 edition of his New Conception of Jazz. Flatjord has worked on many diverse projects, including Dr Kay, Kjetil Jerve Trio and Mongrel.
Tracklisting
Sidsel Endresen, Jan Bang & Erik Honore
Lyder Roed Quintet
Moksha
Maridalen
Lyder Roed & OJKOS
Knut Reiersrud Band
Erlend Skomsvoll Trio
Bugge Wesseltoft
Moksha
