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Features Disc of the day
The Christian Wallumrød Ensemble
The Zoo Is Far
(ECM, 2007)
Norwegian jazzers go far out. Do tune in.
Back in 2006 I wildly suggested that 2007 would be the year of "post-orch" - you know, bands blurring the boundaries between jazz, rock and classical. Then, in an edition of the New Yorker from April 16, 2007 their resident classical expert Alex Ross was seen raving about the chamber minimalism of such 'indie' types as Amiina and Eluvium. Well, it's hardy a theory that went viral and got picked up by the cool tastemongers at the NME but maybe I was on to something. Artists like Peter Broderick, Richard Skelton and Max Richter and young London jazzers like The Portico Quartet and Twelves Trio all seem to have caught the imagination, sparking clubs and collectives like The Arctic Circle for the pursuit and enjoyment of daedal, minimal, cloistered sounds that provide an alternative alternative to the alternative music scene. One obvious source of post-orch inspiration is ECM's Norwegian jazz scene; musicians like fellow ECM-ers Tord Gustavsen Trio and Rune Grammofon's Supersilent using a genre's freedom to pause and hold back rather than blast and spew forth. Expanded to a sextet for their fourth ECM release (harp and strings added to the piano, trumpet and drums trio) Wallumrød's minimal moodists cut themselves further adrift from ECM's romantic Keith Jarrett template, deconstructing Purcell fantasias and Norwegian church music to craft an album of crepitating shifts from eerie pacific beauty to storm-tossed clatter in a manner that would boggle fans of doom-metal and Radiohead alike. With a new album coming at the end of October I will sit calmly as the skinny-trousered buffoons of London trend-jabber start listening to Deathprod and hanging out at the Union Chapel and I will smugly hold off from saying "I told you so."
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 10/08/2009
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Supersilent - 8 (Rune Grammofon, 2008)
Richard Skelton - marking time (Preservation, 2008)
Portico Quartet - Isla (Real World, 2009)
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