Atomic (band)
| Atomic | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Modern creative |
| founding | 1999 |
| Website | www.atomicjazz.com |
| Founding members | |
| Magnus Broo | |
| Fredrik Ljungkvist | |
| Håvard Wiik | |
| Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten | |
| Paal Nilssen-Love (until 2014) | |
| Current occupation | |
Trumpet |
Magnus Broo |
Tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone |
Fredrik Ljungkvist |
piano |
Håvard Wiik |
double bass |
Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten |
Drums |
Hans Hulbækmo (since 2014) |
Atomic is a Norwegian / Swedish jazz quintet founded in 1999 , which comes from the field of modern creative and free jazz .
history
The critic François Couture sees the founding of Atomic as a reaction to the (ironically referred to as mountain jazz ) ECM style in modern jazz, with which Scandinavian jazz would often be equated for many listeners. The "Free Jazz Supergroup" brings together musicians from the well-known Swedish formations Fire House and the Fredrik Norén Band, such as trumpeter Magnus Broo and saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist , who also composes a considerable part of the band's repertoire; the rhythm section comes from the band Element , namely the pianist Håvard Wiik , the bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and for 13 years the drummer Paal Nilssen-Love , who was succeeded by Hans Hulbækmo in mid-2014 . In contrast to the ECM sound of many Scandinavian groups, Atomic draws its influence from the American models of the free jazz movement of the 60s, such as Archie Shepps album Fire Music , Charles Mingus , George Russell , Albert Ayler , Ornette Coleman and die Music from the European scene of new improvisation music , such as Peter Brötzmann's Machine Gun from 1968. Atomic is also close to the music of Ken Vandermark , with whom the band's musicians have often worked.
Broo and Ljungkvist had worked together in Stockholm since the 1990s; Wiik, Håker Flaten and Nilssen-Love studied in Oslo in 1994/95 at the Trondheim Conservatory of Music, where they founded the band Element , which was inspired by John Coltrane's music . In the late 1990s, all five musicians often worked together in Scandinavian clubs and at jazz festivals. This resulted in the decision to found Atomic in the spring of 1999 . In August 2000 they presented themselves at the Oslo Jazz Festival . According to François Couture, Brötzmann's energetic game is combined with flexible compositional structures, which quickly formed the identity of the group and made it known at numerous festival appearances in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe, for example at the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival . The group's first album, Feet Music , was created for the Jazzland Records label in early 2001 ; the title refers to an Ornette Coleman composition. In 2004 a triple album with live recordings from Norway was released at the end of an extensive European and US tour ( The Bikini-Tapes ).
The critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton saw the drummer Paal Nilssen-Love as the key figure of the quintet, which only appears formally in the classic hard bop line -up, who organizes the greatest possible amount of force impulse and noise, while otherwise he plays with a disciplined economy of force.
The band has worked with jazz musicians such as Chris Potter , Iain Ballamy , Jukka Perko and Per "Texas" Johansson over the course of its existence .
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Discography
- Feet Music (Jazzland, 2001)
- Boom Boom (Jazzland, 2002)
- The Bikini Tapes (Jazzland, 2004)
- Happy New Ears (Jazzland, 2006)
- Retrograde (Jazzland, 2009)
- Theater Tilters (Jazzland, 2010)
- There's a Hole in the Mountain (Jazzland, 2013)
- Six Easy Pieces (2017)
- Pet Variations (Odin Records, 2018)
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
swell
- ↑ Atomic lives on! New drummer . Atomic. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ↑ In the original: the key-figure of the band is the extraordinary Paal Nilssen-Love, who, as in every group he plays in, manages to extract the maximum amount of momentum and noise from his kit while actually playing with a disciplined economy of effort which is breathtaking to see as well as hear. Quoted from Cook / Morton, p. 50.
- ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)