Blow Out in Oslo

If you are in Oslo this week, check out the strong Blow Out program at Café MIR (FaceBook)!

Wednesday 14 Aug

Paal Nilssen-Love/Ståle Liavik Solberg

Vilde & Inga + Akira Sakata

Poing + Paul Lovens

Wolfram + Frode Gjerstad


Thursday 15 Aug

Frode Gjerstad/Børre Mølstad/Roger Turner

Sten Ove Toft

Mette Rasmussen/Alan Silva/Ståle Liavik Solberg

Mats Gustafsson/Günter Christmann/Paul Lovens


Friday 16 Aug

Tradition Trio (Johannes Bauer/Alan Silva/Roger Turner)

Eivind Opsvik

Ketil Gutvik/Kristoffer Alberts/Okkyung Lee

Receptacles


Saturday 17 Aug

Matiné some other place (TBA):
Lasse Marhaug/Joe Williamson/Ståle Liavik Solberg

Evening:

Han Bennink/Morten Gunnar Larsen

Terrie Ex/Paal Nilssen-Love

AKODE

Dr Kay and his Interstallar Tone Schientists

And let´s not forget, Oslo Jazzfestival is happening too!

1982 + BJ Cole and BJ Cole + Poulomi Desai

Sigbjørn Apeland (fiddles, violins), Øyvind Skarbø (dr, perc) and Nils Økland (org), aka the great folk-impro trio 1982, were invited to play at the Sildajazz festival in Haugesund (Norway), with pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole.

1982 played while walking the stairs too, and don´t forget the "1982 + BJ Cole" album on Hubro!

In July, BJ Cole (pedal steel guitar) and Poulomi Desai (prepared sitar) played at Cafe Oto in London.
More info on that happening to be found on YouTube.

Michael Mantler: Hide and Seek

Today, let´s just take the easy way out, and link to "Between sound and space - an ECM Records resource (and beyond)", where they review Michael Mantler´s album "Hide and seek" (ECM 2001). Robert Wyatt and Susi Hyldgaard sing Paul Auster´s lyrics on that one.
Run on over there and read!

At least we have mentioned the album earlier in this blog, see here and here.

Pram

I found this great stencil by AFK in Bergen today.

I wonder what AFK is trying to tell us? Focus on your babies? Hmm.

Distare Sonanti

In 2010 we liked the album "Clinamen" with the trio Giovanni Di Domenico (keyb, electronics), Arve Henriksen (tp, electronics) and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto (dr, perc), and this blog post is just to tell you they are back.

It seems like "Distare Sonanti" was released as mp3s on Either/OAR in the autumn of 2012, and a CD was released this spring.

This album is just as fine as the previous one. Most of the tracks are group improvisations, and I still think we can say it is perfect for fans of Supersilent, and other people with good taste!

Fine musicians all of them of course, but a little extra star to drummer Yamamoto shouldn´t make anyone envious.

All Summer Long

Well, we are soon in the middle of August, and now John Cale´s new summer single suddenly appears.

"All summer long" was recorded during the "Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood" (2012) sessions, but Cale felt the song was not dark enough to fit in on that album.
No physical release it seems. Check it out here first, and buy on iTunes if you like it. I did.

“When writing for Shifty Adventures I noticed an apparent theme of claustrophobic darkness and so of course, I felt at home in that place. There were though a handful of songs unfinished. One in particular was me dreaming about a breeze, space and light." Read more at Double Six.

Lol Coxhill, Veryan Weston and Sam Coxhill-Davis

A new video with Lol Coxhill popped up on YouTube recently, and of course we must have it in the blog!

Here you have Lol Coxhill (sax) with Veryan Weston (p) and Sam Coxhill-Davis (g), who seems to be Lol´s grandson, live i June 2011.

I seldom regret missing a concert or two, but at the last moment I decided not to go to Oslo to hear Lol Coxhill at All Ears in 2007! Aaargh!