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Pulse-driven<\/p>\n
Christian Wallumr\u00f8d has, together with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, created a new and exciting album that confirms his abilities as a unique composer and the flexibility of the never-static jazz orchestra.<\/p>\n
Christian Wallumr\u00f8d was commissioned to compose a work for Trondheim Jazz Orchestra on the occasion of the Kongsberg Jazz Festival\u2019s 50th anniversary in 2014, and it was really a work with a capital W that he produced. \u201cUntitled Arpeggios and Pulses\u201d is a piece of music just over 50 minutes long that should be listened to continuously from start to finish, and that will thus not be made available in the LP format.<\/p>\n
The clearly pulse-driven work consists of four parts that are connected and range from the unassertively acoustic to the intensely forceful.<\/p>\n
\u201cUntitled Arpeggios and Pulses\u201d is Wallumr\u00f8d\u2019s third release on the HUBRO label this year. We released his first solo album, \u201cPianokammer\u201d, to glowing reviews in January, and a limited edition LP with the duo Brutter this past summer.<\/p>\n
The album is available as a CD and a DL.<\/p>\n
Upcoming concerts:
\n4 November: Dokkhuset, Trondheim
\n5 November: Nasjonal Jazzscene, Victoria, Oslo
\n6 November: Bergen Jazzforum, Bergen<\/p>\n
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Christian Wallumr\u00f8d has, together with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, created a new and exciting album that confirms his abilities as a unique composer and the flexibility of the never-static jazz orchestra.<\/p>\n
The clearly pulse-driven work consists of four parts that are connected and range from the unassertively acoustic to the intensely forceful.<\/p>\n
On this occasion the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra consisted of Wallumr\u00f8d himself along with a selection of his favourite musicians. Some he had already worked with for a long time in other bands, while others were more recent acquaintances: guitarists Ivar Grydeland (Huntsville, Dans les Arbres) and Lars Ove Fossheim (Broen, Skadedyr), pianist Anja Lauvdal (Moskus, Broen, Skadedyr), saxophonist Espen Reinertsen and trumpet player Eivind L\u00f8nning (Streifenjunko and Christian Wallumr\u00f8d Ensemble), tubist Heida Karine J\u00f3hannesd\u00f3ttir Mobeck (Broen, Skadedyr), drummers Fredrik Wallumr\u00f8d (Brutter) and Siv \u00d8yunn Kjenstad (Chili Vanilla, Thomas Str\u00f8nen), and finally double bassist Michael Francis Duch (Lemur).<\/p>\n
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra is one of the most important and creative jazz ensembles in Norway. The orchestra is operated as a musicians\u2019 pool, so that the orchestra changes as to instrumentation and size from project to project. During the course of the last thirteen years, the orchestra has had a great number of exciting projects with norwegian and international jazz profiles such as Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman, Erlend Skomsvoll, Eirik Hegdal, Vigleik Storaas, Geir Lysne, Bendik Hofset, Maria Kannegaard, Kim Myhr, Jenny Hval, Stian Westerhus, St\u00e5le Storl\u00f8kken, Albatrosh and Marius Neset.<\/p>\n
The album was recorded in connection with the successful concert at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival where the work was given its world premiere, and we know that this recording has been eagerly awaited by many people. The critic from the newspaper Aftenposten gave the concert the highest accolades in his review: \u201cWallumr\u00f8d presents here his remarkably well-developed ability to gather inspiration from a variety of stylistic genres and place his own unmistakable stamp on the result.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christian Wallumr\u00f8d (b. 1971) has for many years been regarded as one of the most prominent and original creative talents in the Norwegian music world. He is instantly identifiable both as a composer and as a pianist, but at the same time any attempt to categorise his music is doomed to fail. His background is in jazz and church music, and in his five records with changing ensemble members on ECM he has erased the borders between jazz, hymns, gospel, folk music, baroque music and contemporary music, and has carved out his own niche in the hearts and minds of listeners and reviewers alike. Parallel with this he has worked with the quartet Dans les Arbres, who continue to make their mark on the international improv and contemporary music scene. Wallumr\u00f8d has also had noteworthy collaborations with artists such as Sidsel Endresen, Audun Kleive, Susanne Sundf\u00f8r, Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer, Karl Seglem, Oslo Sinfonietta and Kim Myhr.<\/p>\n
Wallumr\u00f8d won a Spellemannspris, the Norwegian Grammy, for the album \u201cOutstairs\u201d (ECM, 2013), and was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize for the album \u201cFabula Suite Lugano\u201d (ECM, 2010). Dans les Arbres has been nominated for the same prize in 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cUntitled Arpeggios and Pulses\u201d is Wallumr\u00f8d\u2019s third release on the HUBRO label this year. We released his first solo album, \u201cPianokammer\u201d, to glowing reviews in January, and a limited edition LP with the duo Brutter this past summer.<\/p>\n
The album is available as a CD and a DL.<\/p>\n
Upcoming concerts:
\n4 November: Dokkhuset, Trondheim
\n5 November: Nasjonal Jazzscene, Victoria, Oslo
\n6 November: Bergen Jazzforum, Bergen<\/p>\n
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