Mats Eilertsen Rubicon

Mats Eilertsen - Rubicon (2016) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Mats Eilertsen - Rubicon (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 54:30 minutes | 1,1 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Noted Norwegian bassist Mats Eilertsen, a veteran of countless sessions with many groups, presents his own music as he steps forward as bandleader of an international cast on Rubicon. The album features compositions originally written in response to a 2014 commission from the Vossajazz Festival in Norway. After tweaking the material on tour, Eilertsen brought his septet to record the album in Oslo in May 2015.

Mats Eilertsen - Rubicon (2016) {ECM 2469} [Repost]  Music

Posted by tiburon at June 21, 2018
Mats Eilertsen - Rubicon (2016) {ECM 2469} [Repost]

Mats Eilertsen - Rubicon (2016) {ECM 2469}
EAC 1.1 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 400dpi | 248MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 134MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz

Norwegian bassist Mats Eilertsen has been a strong and supportive presence on a dozen ECM sessions to date. With Rubicon he steps forward to present his own music, with an international cast. The album features compositions originally written in response to a commission from the Vossajazz Festival. All About Jazz reviewed the premiere performance: "Rubicon proved to be a very dynamic work. Eilertsen ensured that each of the instrumentalists took their share of the spotlight, brought together combinations of players that emphasized tonal variation, and created ensemble sections bursting with life." After fine-tuning the material on tour, Mats brought his septet to Oslo's Rainbow Studio, where Manfred Eicher produced this definitive version of Rubicon in May 2015.

Skydive Trio - Sun Sparkle (2018)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Oct. 8, 2018
Skydive Trio - Sun Sparkle (2018)

Skydive Trio - Sun Sparkle (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 209.18 Mb | 43:41 | Covers
Contemporary Jazz, Fusion | Country: Norway | Label: Hubro - HUBROCD2596

SkyDive Trio’s second album ‘Sun Sparkle’ – which arrives three years after its acclaimed predecessor, ‘Sun Moee’ – presents the listener with an intriguing set of paradoxes. A power trio who use full throttle only very sparingly, the band can appear to play loud music quietly, and quiet music, loud, countering jazz subtlety with rock attack. They also partner the relatively clean and melodic sound of Thomas T. Dahl’s guitar with the mountainous riffs and deep, seismic explosions of Mats Eilertsen’s bass, rather as if Pat Metheny was being accompanied by Peter Hook, of Joy Division and New Order. The great Finnish drummer Olavi Louhivuori somehow bridges the aesthetic gap, alternating crunching four-square rhythms with delicately shimmering percussive strokes.

Trygve Seim - Helsinki Songs (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Aug. 30, 2018
Trygve Seim - Helsinki Songs (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Trygve Seim - Helsinki Songs (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 63:45 minutes | 1.19 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

With its overt lyricism, strong themes and a sense of perpetual melodic invention, Norwegian saxophonist Trygve Seim’s new album quickly identifies itself as a classic-in-the-making. Themes of dedication run through Seim’s Helsinki Songs album, a set of tunes composed – for the most part – in the Finnish capital, and radiating tributes in many directions. Here are songs referencing Igor Stravinsky and Jimmy Webb, pieces dedicated to each of Seim’s gifted bandmates, and tunes that tip the hat, obliquely, to Ornette Coleman and Bill Evans. The quartet plays superbly throughout, with outstanding solos from leader Seim and pianist Kristjan Randalu. Helsinki Songs was recorded in Oslo’s Rainbow Studio in January 2018 and produced by Manfred Eicher.