Murder Weapon

Tricky´s new album "Mixed Race" will be released by Domino in September.
Here you get the video fro the first single: "Murder Weapon". Dance like a butterfly!
Echo Minott´s original here.

Atomic

Please note:
Atomic: "Theater Tilters Vol 2" (Jazzland 2010).
Atomic: "Boom Boom" (No Business Records, Reissue 2003/2010 - Vinyl 500 copies).
Atomic: "The Bikini Tapes" (No Business Records, Reissue, 20005/2010 - Vinyl 300 copies).

Since I steal a lot from the blog "Free Jazz" anyway, why don´t you just pop over and read there? "Theater Tilters Vol 2" has been in my possession all summer, and I believe the official release is just around the corner, but 23 August you may also buy both volumes as a double CD. Just do it!

Angles

I´m sorry (NOT!) if this blog costs you a lot of money, but here is another jazz album you just have to get: Angles " Epileptical West/Live In Coimbra" (Clean Feed, 2010). Angles is Johan Berthling (b), Kjell Nordeson (d), Magnus Broo (t), Martin Küchen (ts), Mats Äleklint (tb) and Mattias Ståhl (vib). This is recorded in front of an enthusiastic audience in Coimbra (Portugal) during the 2009 Jazz ao Centro festival.
The music is composed by Martin Küchen, it swings, it is hymn like, they freak out like a free jazz brass band, and they even add some world music (or afrobeat as some reviewers say). This is just so good, and the live feeling is great!
Angles´previous album was "Every Woman Is A Tree" (Clean Feed, 2008), and I just have to get that one too I guess?

In fact I heard parts of their Nattjazz concert in Bergen (2008), but I can´t remember that it was this great! It might have been the sleepy Bergen audience´s fault?

Since I shopped music files at eMusic, I don´t have the cover text I hear is good, and I just have to guess that the cover designer is Travassos, who (l have been told) design lots of Clean Feed releases.

Alog

Alog is Espen Sommer Eide and Dag-Are Haugan. Here is a video from a recording session in St. Jacob´s church in Bergen (Mars 2010), with keyboard man Sigbjørn Apeland. This is going to be so good, check out Sommer Eide´s dance moves!

PUNKT 2010

It´s soon time for PUNKT 2010 (2 Sept - 4 Sept) in Kristiansand, in the south of Norway (don´t go to Kristiansund now!). I have made plans to go, so watch out!

Fred Frith in Oslo

Fred Frith played two concerts in Oslo this weekend, one with Art Directors and one with Hild Sofie Tafjord and Paal Nilssen-Love (video). Both concerts were held at Cosmopolite, and you may find another video from the Nilssen-Love/Tafjord concert here.

Reem Kelani workshop

Originally uploaded by wiredsteve

It seems like Robert Wyatt´s summer holidays are over. Here he is participating in a workshop on Arabic and Palestinian singing, conducted by Reem Kelani.