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Anders Lønne Grønseth
Anders started his professional career with the quartet Sphinx in 2000; a collaboration with fellow students David Arthur Skinner (piano), Audun Ellingsen (bass) and Ulrik Ibsen Thorsrud (drums) which lasted over a decade and produced several tours in Norway, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Finland and Japan, as well as six album releases. Allthough Sphinx is put to rest, collaborations with the band members continue. A duo with David A. Skinner was formed in 2005, with focus towards combining sonorities and ideas from contemporary classical music with the improvisational attitude of jazz. The duo has toured in Norway, France, Greece, Finland and Japan, and has produced two albums. In 2007, Mini Macro Ensemble was formed out of a similar principle, but with a larger ensemble and a stronger emphasis on Anders' compositions. After releasing «Mini Macro Ensemble» with a string quartet and two improvising soloists in 2008, the project was put on ice. It was given new life in 2011 with the gathering of eight musicians from a multiple of different musical backgrounds, yet rooted in an improvisational approach to music. Mini Macro Ensemble are releasing two albums in 2015 and 2016.
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Anders Lønne Grønseth & Multiverse: Inner View
by Chris May
Since George Russell published his influential Lydian Chromatic Concept Of Tonal Organization in 1953, other jazz musicians have attempted to reforge the theoretical construct of their music--with varying degrees of success and including some egregiously posturing examples of b.s. which bring to mind Hans Christian Andersen's salutary story The Emperor's New Clothes. One twenty-first century venture which authentically hits the mark is Israeli-born, New York-based tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur's Middle Path, his deft recalibration of microtonal Indian ...
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by Mike Jurkovic
Built and fully realized in its moment of fruition, Norwegian saxophonist and bass clarinetist Anders Lønne Grønseth's Multiverse lays waste to the tired notion that music from the Scandinavian hinterlands has to bear the mark of chilly emotion. The musical flow and invention heard so immediately on Multiverse is a restless wonder, resulting in rhythmic and harmonic inversions that follow their own time. This may be disorienting to some at first but further listening has it all falling ...
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by Chris May
Ever since Jan Garbarek put Norwegian jazz on the map, and especially so after the international success of his rigorously ascetic Officium (ECM) in 1994, the music has acquired a reputation for being not entirely passionless, but emotionally withdrawn. The Scandinavian sound" which Garbarek championed was conceived in collaboration with ECM label founder Manfred Eicher as an alternative to the American jazz tradition. It eschewed emotional engagement in favour of cerebralism and was often infused with harmolodic motifs borrowed from ...
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