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Gunhild Seim “Story Water"

Read "Gunhild Seim “Story Water"" reviewed by Luca Vitali


Nasjonal Jazzscene Oslo (Norvegia) 06.03.2014 Story Water deve la sua nascita al festival Vossajazz (Voss--Norvegia) che per l'edizione 2012 ha commissionato un lavoro originale alla trombettista e compositrice Gunhild Seim. Per i musicisti norvegesi l'annuale commissione del Vossajazz rappresenta un vero onore. Gunhild ha deciso di cogliere questa opportunità facendo le cose in grande. Il progetto segna una svolta nel suo cammino, un'emancipazione dalle atmosfere della scena di Stavanger e dei precedenti lavori realizzati ...

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Album Review

Gunhild Seim: Story Water

Read "Story Water" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Story Water is the most ambitious achievement of Norwegian trumpeter Gunhild Seim. It is a musical fantasy inspired by texts about the universes of dreams and death, commissioned by the VossaJazz Festival and recorded live at the festival's opening day in March 2012. Seim expands her modern jazz-based musical language, as was documented before with her Time Jungle band, including a collaboration with acclaimed pianist Marilyn Crispell, (Elephant Wings, Drollehålå, 2012). With a new, unconventional cast of ...

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Gunhild Seim Time Jungle, with Marilyn Crispell: Elephant Wings

Read "Elephant Wings" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


With Elephant Wings, Norwegian trumpeter Gunhild Seim grows the number of albums released, since beginning her career as bandleader of Time Jungle more than five years ago, to three, including 2007's Time Jungle and 209's Morpho, all released on her own Drollehålå imprint. Each has been a beautiful gem, demonstrating Seim's compositional skills to balance and contrast between a subtle, tender aesthetic with fierier and more intensive playing. Elephant Wings is another excellent set of compositions, with ...

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Gunhild Seim & Time Jungle: Morpho

Read "Morpho" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Stavanger, Norway-based Gunhild Seim & Time Jungle's sophomore release delivers further evidence of trumpeter Seim's mature compositional skills, also featured on her debut, Time Jungle (Drollehola Records, 2009). Seim matches intensity and adventurous improvisation--typical of improvisers coming from her hometown such as reed player Frode Gjerstad and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love--with nuanced, melodic lines of chamber jazz that are identified with the ECM style of Nordic jazz, all fused into organic, collective interplay. Seim is accompanied by an ...

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Gunhild Seim: Time Jungle

Read "Time Jungle" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Norwegian trumpeter/composer Gunhild Seim lives in Stavanger, where many Norwegian musicians who play outside the ECM school--including reed player Frode Gjerstad, trumpeter Didrik Ingvaldsen, drummer Paal Nilssen-Love and organist Nils Henrik Asheim--developed their musical language for free improvisation. Seim is one of the leaders of the local ensemble, Kitchen Orchestra, and leads her own quartet on this debut recording on her own Drolleholå Music label.

For this recording Seim enlisted New York-based reed player Andrew D'Angelo to produce ...

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Story Water

Drolleholå Music
2013

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Elephant Wings

Drollehola Records
2012

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Morpho

Drollehola Records
2009

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Time Jungle

Drolleholå Music
2007

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