New ones from Honoré and Møster! on Hubro

Two quite different Norwegian albums too look out for! Both released on Hubro.

Erik Honoré: "Heliographs". The Punkt man joined by Ingar Zach, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang Sidsel Endresen, Arve Henriksen (all "Punkt musicians"), and Dutch violinist Jeffrey Bruinsma.

Norwegian release: 05.09.2014
International release: 17.11.2014.

Møster!: "Inner Earth". Kjetil Møster´s project´s second album on Hubro (Make sure you check out the first one too!). The band: Kjetil Møster, Hans Magnus “Snah” Ryan, Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen and Kenneth Kapstad.

Norwegian release: 12.09.2014
International release: 20.10.2014.

Møster!´s September - October tour:

13 September: Blæst, Trondheim (N)
17 September: Blå, Oslo (N)
19 September: Sardinen, Bergen (N)
20 September: Consul80, Stavanger (N)
08 October: Enjoy Jazz, Mannheim (DE)
09 October: Rumor Festival, Utrecht (NL)

Grasscut: Catholic Architecture / Beacon

"Grasscut, return this October with a new single, a cover of and tribute to Robert Wyatt. A huge influence on the band,.."

Read more and order over at Lo Recordings.

And don´t forget the Grasscut - Robert Wyatt cooperation "Richardson Road" from the album "Unearth" (Ninja Tunes 2012).

Ljungkvist, Broo and Nilssen-Love by Car

You are hereby invited to a car trip in São Paulo with Fredrik Ljungkvist, Magnus Broo and Paal-Nilssen-Love!

Filmed in May 2014, when Atomic played in São Paulo.

After this Nilssen-Love has quit Atomic, and the new drummer is Hans Hulbœkmo.

Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær

Sly Dunbar (dr)
Robbie Shakespeare (b)
Nils Petter Molvær (tp)
Jan Bang (live sampling, keyb)
Eivind Aarset (g)

These guys are ready for concerts in 2015, playing new material too. Some band!

Via NPM´s Facebook.

Artchipel Orchestra play Soft Machine

Artchipel Orchestra play Soft Machine on a new CD given away with the September issue of the Italian jazz magazine Musica Jazz.

The album might be sold separately later on.

They play big band arrangements of "Facelift", "Kings And Queens", "Noisette", "Mousetrap" and "Moon In June" and "Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening" arranged for four voices.

Thanks for the tip Alessandro.

I posted a live recording of "Moon in June" (Wyatt) in June (!).

Rock Bottom celebration

Here is Jean-Pilippe Ramos´ hommage to Robert Wyatt´s "Rock Bottom" for it´s 40th birthday.

Jean-Philippe says this is a "rough mix" uploaded, since his engineer and producer Philippe Morand sadly died in the beginning of August.

Rocksteady

I´m trying to prolong the summer feeling, by still playing this year´s summer album on my turntable: "Studio One Rocksteady. Rocksteady, soul and early reggae at Studio One" (Soul Jazz Records 2014).

Rocksteady, being a musical bridge between ska (slower and more soul influenced than ska) and reggae, was hugely popular in Jamaica for a couple of years in the mid 1960s.

This is a fine collection of beautiful songs with among others Marcia Griffiths, The Heptones, Jackie Mittoo and Dennis Brown. Full track list over here.

Great liner notes by Lloyd Bradley (author of "Bass Culture. When reggae was king").