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A genuinely new form resonating. It happens only rarely that musicians working with improvisation at the sharp end of experimental practice are so attuned to contemporary style and taste that their work reaches beyond \u201cthe serious\u201d or \u201cthe popular\u201d to come out the other side sounding like a genuinely new form resonating on both levels simultaneously. Building Instrument – the Bergen-based trio of Mari Kvien Brunvoll, \u00d8yvind Hegg-Lunde and \u00c5smund Weltzien \u2013 are such a group. On new album, \u2019Mangelen Min\u2019(following up the acclaimed self-titled Hubro debut from 2014, and ‘Kem Som Kan \u00e5 Leve’ from 2016), they mix electronic echoes of the classical baroque, drums that sound almost melodic, fragile but powerful vocals, Balkan flavours and the kind of deep spacey synth sounds you might expect to find on the soundtrack to a feature film by Nicolas Winding Refn. The result is a continually diverting series of subtle and intricately nuanced musical settings where the rate of change never lets up. Yet the group\u2019s massive sense of groove also makes this art that you can dance to.<\/p>\n
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It happens only rarely that musicians working with improvisation at the sharp end of experimental practice are so attuned to contemporary style and taste that their work reaches beyond \u201cthe serious\u201d or \u201cthe popular\u201d to come out the other side sounding like a genuinely new form resonating on both levels simultaneously. Building Instrument – the Bergen-based trio of Mari Kvien Brunvoll, \u00d8yvind Hegg-Lunde and \u00c5smund Weltzien \u2013 are such a group. On new album, \u2019Mangelen Min\u2019(following up the acclaimed self-titled Hubro debut from 2014, and ‘Kem Som Kan \u00e5 Leve’ from 2016), they mix electronic echoes of the classical baroque, drums that sound almost melodic, fragile but powerful vocals, Balkan flavours and the kind of deep spacey synth sounds you might expect to find on the soundtrack to a feature film by Nicolas Winding Refn. The result is a continually diverting series of subtle and intricately nuanced musical settings where the rate of change never lets up. Yet the group\u2019s massive sense of groove also makes this art that you can dance to.<\/p>\n
As well as the core contributions of Brunvoll (vocals, zither, electronics), Hegg-Lunde (drums\/percussion) and Weltzien (synths, electronics, melodica), the team for \u2018Mangelen Min\u2019 also included sound engineer\/musician Anders Bjelland (Great News, Electric Eye) and the legendary mixologist J\u00f8rgen Tr\u00e6en (The National Bank, Susanne Sundf\u00f8r, Jaga Jazzist, Lars Horntveth, etc), whose input reinforced the collective sense of embarking on an important new sonic adventure with no pre-defined destination in sight. \u201cWe were starting to get confident about what we\u2019ve created as a band, and during the ten years we\u2019ve been working together we\u2019ve become close friends,\u201d says Hegg-Lunde. \u201cThis time, we went into the studio knowing that we had a team of talented people around us, who would all be working on the creative chaos together. Plus we were surrounded by a lot of equipment and a pretty big set-up.\u201d<\/p>\n
As on the two previous albums, \u2018Mangelen Min\u2019 comprises a mixture of real-time playing on a wide range of instruments, and live sampling and electronic processing. The final product is stitched together from the materials available to form a seamless musical tapestry that feels distinctively hand-crafted. This humble, hand-made aesthetic fits the band like a glove, and connects them to a kind of international informal movement of artists working with advanced technology yet retaining a home-made style and ethos that can feel more analogue than digital, more human than machine. The same feeling can be detected in the beautiful animated film created by the Dutch video artist Simone Hooymans for the track \u2018Rett Ned\u2019 from Building Instrument’s second Hubro album, \u2018Kem Som Kan \u00c5 Leve\u2019. The sense of a home-made craft aesthetic is also reinforced by the band\u2019s choice of unusual sound sources and the organic-seeming way they structure them through intricate layering to form each track, "We employed everything from Hardanger fiddle samples, vibraphone, sampled wind instruments and whistles in addition to our customary resources of song, drums and synthesisers\u201d, continues Brunvoll, whose striking, multi-octave voice is so adaptable that it becomes yet another instrumental tool. But whatever the instrument, and whatever the musical context or point of reference, whether the contemporary Caribbean or the court music of eighteenth century Versailles – both of which get a knowing nod in \u2018Mangelen Min\u2019 – Building Instrument emphatically sound like no one but themselves.<\/p>\n
05. Oct – Eklektik Session – Wroclaw (PL) 07. Oct – Eklektik Session w\/Nils Petter Molv\u00e6r\/orchestra – Wroclaw (PL) 04. Nov – Falturiltu Festival – Stord (NO) 08. Nov – Inder\u00f8y Jazzforum – Inder\u00f8ya (NO) 09. Nov – Br\u00f8nn\u00f8y Jazzforum – Br\u00f8nn\u00f8ysund (NO) 14. Nov – SALT – Oslo (NO) 15. Nov – Tou Scene – Stavanger (NO) 17. Nov \u2013 Cornerteateret \u2013 Bergen (NO)<\/p>\n
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