Fattigfolket

Fattigfolket: Park

by Anthony Shaw
January 24, 2012

While its previous work has been described as both middle-of-the-road and avant-garde, Park sees the Norwegian-Swedish quartet Fattigfolket offering a selection of tunes that again straddles the middle ground of contemporary, instrumental Nordic jazz. Saxophonist Halvard Godal's pieces--which make up the majority of the 11 tracks included here--feature melodies that tend to be linear rather than elliptical or elastic. Named according to parks located in northern Europe, the tunes are meditations on themes, typically enunciated by Godal ...