Label: Nakama Records - NKM008

ノルウェーのコンテンポラリー、ジャズ、フリー・インプロヴィゼーション・レーベルNakama Recordsが出版した面白物件。ノルウェーにて活動する4名の音楽家、Adrian Løseth Waade、Andreas Wildhagen、田中 鮎美、Christian Meaas Svendsenがそれぞれの為に楽曲を書きヴァイオリン、ピアノ、ドラム、コンピューターを用い様々な形態で演奏、全員がアンサンブル、即興演奏家、ソリスト、作曲家という形で存在するというコンセプトで作られた作品[Most Intimate]。非常にミニマルな編成の小気味良い鳴り、ムーディーなコンテンポラリージャズ、パーカッションのみで突き抜ける激シブの構造まで、演奏家の編成次第で実に色々な表情を見せる魅力的で美しい一枚です。エンボス加工のペーパースリーヴ。

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Even though the music on this album isn’t conceptual, the structure of it is. I wanted to make a collaborative album portraying the musicians as ensemble players, improvisers, soloists and composers. In order to fulfill that vision we decided to write small Dedications to each other. I wrote for Andreas, Andreas for Adrian, Adrian for Ayumi and Ayumi for me. The only rule was that the person who received the dedication was to be omitted from the composition. Each of the dedications are followed by a solo improvisation, or as we have called it here — Gratitude — from the receiver. The solo is then followed by a synthesis of the two former, a short improvised something with all four, but with the dedicator and the receiver swapping instruments. We have called these pieces Unifications. I also made a little theme with a corresponding variation to serve as a wrapping around it all. In addition we made a fifth Unification which is a free interpretation of the aforementioned theme, and in which all of us swap instruments so that we play the one instrument we did not get to play in the other four Unifications. All in all the recording consists of 15 tracks which present the band in literally all possible solo-, duo-, trio- and quartet combinations. The duos are presented on the opening track which is the variation on the theme, the trios on the Dedications, the quartets on the Unifications, and the solos on the Gratitudes. The album can be experienced without this knowledge, but is really structured to be listened to as the way it is grouped - as a question, a response, and a sort of agreement (Dedication, Gratitude, Unification). With the exception of the title theme, none of us had heard any of the other compositions beforehand. We had been touring for 9 days, and I wanted the tour to culminate in a recording session which took advantage of the fatigue we were suffering from. Great things happen when the discerning, analytic and intellectual mind is bypassed, and it is that flavor which «Most Intimate» is representing.

Adrian Løseth Waade - violin, piano, drums, bass, comp.
Ayumi Tanaka - piano, drums, bass, violin, comp.
Andreas Wildhagen - drums, bass, violin, piano, comp.
Christian Meaas Svendsen - bass, violin, piano, drums, comp.