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New Band!
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Bjørnar Habbestad solo/oslo
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N Event 22 Pictures
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Habbestad+Seijiro Murayama
Duch&Habbestad on tour with LEMUR
26.09.07 Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore (USA)
News from Rune Grammofon
Gjerstad/Lonberg-Holm/Habbestad
New Release By ButtercupMetalPolish
N Stream is up!
New Liquid Composition
DBO R&D-week
Concertzender presents music of Jeff Carey
New track from USA/USB!
OfficeR: Mundane occurences and Presentations - CD on Lampse
Practicum 06a Opening
MoHa! Video
MoHa! - Raus Aus Stavanger
N Event at Sonic Acts 2006 (Amsterdam)
USA/USB hype in the WIRE
Pictures from Ultralyd euro tour
Sounds and Images from the
seventh N-Event
humanelectric, Buyukberber/VanHeumen and SKIF material added
K&M in Bruxelles
New M/N/O/G Material: The Danziger Sessions
MoHa! review of live show
Mayas / Nutters / Olsen / Galvez Review
Numusic is closing in
MoHa! on Rune Grammofon
Transparency Project
Office-R(6) release on LAMPSE records
TAPE THAT Review of 'The Catalogue' performance.
Dirk Bruinsma/Morten J. Olsen
USA/USB
Mayas/Nutters/Olsen/Galvez soon to release on FMR records
N LIVE AT STEIM. Out now on A-Version records!
Interview with Anders and Morten
MoHa! New EP "Rock, meg i rauå"
Mayas / Nutters / Olsen / Galvez Quartet plays the Total Music Meeting 2005 in Berlin
2 N events in Norway
Bjørnar Habbestad presents t3l4Rt_03
New Mayas Nutters Olsen Galvez mp3
Review of N collective record on X-OR
TAPE THAT Review
TAPE THAT Album released on HUMBUG
Phô review
Humbug records about to release PHO and TAPE THAT
Another new release from morten and anders (and frode and kjetil)
Recording of the latest N Event at STEIM
The N ensemble in the new Martin Butler Piece
New release from Morten and Anders
New release from Nicolas Field
N sampler review
Mr B featured on BBC Radio
PHô on disc
Check out this small version of the N Ensemble
N Collective CD
Morthana Release on Jazzaway
OfficeR Extended compilation appearance
Mayas / Nutters / Olsen / Galvez Review
MAGDA MAYAS/CARLOS GALVEZ/KOEN NUTTERS/MORTEN J OLSEN - Dirty In The Different Tradition (FMR 173; UK)
2004 recordings by this piano/doublebass/percussion/bass clarinet quartet of N-Collective members. They say they are "heavily infuenced by the sound logic of Helmut Lachenmann, the forms of Matthias Spahlinger and the soundworld of Morton Feldman and Anton Webern", but I don't believe that kind of nonsensical rhetoric. This is old-school plink-plonk Euro-improv equal parts MIC and SME, a kind of music we just don't hear enough these days. These four youngish musicians are on fire here with a perfect balance of energy and restraint, affirming the infinite wellspring of creative potential for collective free improvisation on acoustic instruments based on traditional call-and-response split-second interaction and physical engagement with traditional instrumentalism. In my opinion it is impossible to be retrogressive under this timeless methodology. The musical surface is extremely pointillistic, a constant stream of spikes, lurches, and jabs that explodes out of the speakers. Morten J. Olsen's percussion has the nervous energy and isolated gestures of Raymond Strid, but compared to, say the Guy/Gustafsson/Strid/Crispell quartet, this music is much more sparse and careful. In fact, there are a few passages where the slow and taciturn surface feeling of Lachenmann or Feldman comes through, but always with some jagged shifts just around the corner. The final minutes of the disc offer a stunning passage of brooding semi-repetition that recall Feldman's "Trio" or "For Philip Guston". Magda Mayas piano playing is very original and she plays the instrument the only way that seems sensible to my ears: as little as possible! Yes, I have limited patience for piano music, but Mayas has an ingenious way of using both the inside and keyboard of the piano to create sparse, tiny fragments of motion that are compatible with multiple layers of the musical context. I've also been deeply impressed by her trio with Sabine Vogel and Michael Renkel and she is definitely a leading light of the next generation of improvisors. These are Very Serious Musicians who must feel the weight of European Art Music Culture on their shoulders, pursuing virtuosity and situating themselves in the post-academic avant-garde and all that stuff. I'm glad to hear people still pushing the limits of conventional vocabularies on acoustic instruments through the parameters of rhythmic complexity. They're all fantastically agile musicians. Bass clarinettest Carlos Galvez has done obvious things like studying with Harry Sparnaay and working with Boulez to premiere a new piece. I was blown away by this disc and it doesn't lose its focus for a single moment. -Michael Anton Parker
Hear a bit of this disc: Maybe on the norm for a conductor
FMR Records