NKM022
Nakama
New world
Artist: Nakama
Album title: New World
Label: Nakama Records
Catalog number: NKM022LP / NKM022CD
Release: 1st July 2022
Formats and pricing:
- double vinyl in gatefold from €15
- CD digipak from €6
Shipping:
- From Norway to Norway
- From Slovenia to EU and rest of the world
Press
New World is by and large an investigation in various ways of composing structures which is utilized as improvisational platforms — be it the rigid title track, which offers a spatial composition for the musicians to work around, or the much more straightforward Benign, leaving the soloist to roam freely. Half of the tracks have also been tampered with in post production, making New World a record with sturdy roots in a played-live feel, bending towards and intermingling with the tightness of computers, synthesizers and such. Add to that some buddhist Zen buddhist chants, bizarre bass riffs and some droplets of microtonality, then lo and behold: We have arrived. On one side the music is warm, explosive and eccentric and on the other it is tight, calculated and stringent. Still, Nakama is what it is: a chamber musical jazz like ensemble in a chill split between the free, catchy, experimental and contemporary.
New World offers new colors, new compositions and new adventures. Simply put, a New World.
Artist bio
Nakama is a five-piece band led by bass player Christian Meaas Svendsen. Improvisation is a central component in the band’s music, and the glue that unites a repertoire spanning from the neo romantic to the contemporary and conceptual. Amongst forms, layers, concepts and structures the players are given room for individual and collective escapades. The result is a mash-up of musical prose, poetry and academia in an incomprehensible yet accessible language.
Credits
Klaus Ellerhusen Holm - Bb clarinet, alto saxophone
Andreas Røysum - Bb clarinet, bass clarinet
Ayumi Tanaka - piano
Christian Meaas Svendsen - double bass, chant, compositions
Andreas Wildhagen - drums
Recording - Aksel Jensen
Mix and mastering - Christian Obermayer
Cover design - Mikkel Cappelen Smith
Andreas R / Ayumi / Christian / Andreas W / Klaus