Artist: Various
Title: Frijazz Mot Rasisme
Format: 2x Vinyl 12″
Label: Smalltown Supersound
Cat nr: STSLJN385LP
Genre: Jazz/Free Jazz/Avant-garde jazz
Tracklist
| A1 | Marthe Lea Band– | Asura
|
5:31 |
| A2 | Andreas Hoem Røysum Og Kalle Moberg– | Live At Blowout
|
4:43 |
| A3 | Joel And The Never-ending Sextet– | Oslo (Excerpt)
|
4:17 |
| A4 | Veslemøy Narvesen, Anja Lauvdal, Ellie Mäkelä– | Blå Nilen
|
4:28 |
| B1 | Signe Emmeluth– | Untitled
|
5:10 |
| B2 | Sanskriti Shrestha & Andreas Wildhagen– | Eight Hands
|
6:00 |
| B3 | Deep Thoukus– | ZZSC
|
2:10 |
| B4 | Christian Winther*– | Bølgebryterstein
|
2:31 |
| B5 | Propan (2)– | Up There
|
4:39 |
| C1 | Dag Erik Knedal Andersen– | Galgeberg
|
2:51 |
| C2 | Tøyen Fil & Klafferi*– | Radiolaire
|
2:03 |
| C3 | Marianna Sangita Angeletaki Røe– | Maj Gol
|
2:24 |
| C4 | Inga Aas*– | The Transformation Of Silence Into Language And Action
|
4:16 |
| D1 | One Out Of Town Feat. Brian Sandstrom– | Sweet Home Christiania
|
4:20 |
| D2 | Agnes Hvizdalek– | Nå
|
1:14 |
| D3 | Trio Generations (2)– | Unfolding (Excerpt)
|
3:54 |
| D4 | Henriette H. Eilertsen* Og Hans Kjorstad*– | Fola, Fola
|
3:45 |
| D5 | Gro Austgulen, Gaute Granli, Simen Kiil Halvorsen, John Lilja, Eduardo Scaramuzza, Jens Borge, Kristoffer Alberts*– | Primary Antibody |
- Copyright © – Smalltown Supersound
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Smalltown Supersound
- Produced For – Mikkis Recording Company
- Recorded At – Flerbruket
- Recorded At – Nasjonal Jazzscene
- Recorded At – Kafé Hærverk, Oslo
- Recorded At – Sentralen, Oslo
- Recorded At – Blow Out Festival
- Recorded At – Skarpretterboligen
- Recorded At – Ultima Festival
- Recorded At – Panalama Studio
- Recorded At – Intelligent Sound, Åkersberga
- Recorded At – Sør-Fron Kyrkje
- Mixed At – Øra Studio
- Compiled By – Anja Lauvdal, Tine Hvidsten
- Cover – Kim Hiorthøy
- Mastered By – Lasse Marhaug (tracks: A1 to C1, C3 to D2, D4, D5)
- Mixed By – Kyrre Laastad (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B2 to C1, C3, D1, D2)
- Producer – Anja Lauvdal, Joakim Haugland
© & ℗ 2021 Smalltown Supersound
The second release on Smalltown Supersound’s highly promising offside jazz label, ‘Le Jazz Non Series’ follows Bendik Giske and Buttechno’s mighty label opener with a killer compilation bursting with contemporary/outsider Norwegian free music as a show of solidarity against racism in the scene, with a title that translates to “Freejazz against racism“.
Stitched and compiled by Anja Lauvdal and Tine Hvidsten, the set features 18 outsider Jazz burners centered around a varied and diverse cast of characters from the young Norwegian scene. While Norway has long had a positive relationship with free music, its players have invariably looked remarkably similar. “Frijazz mot rasisme” aims to address that by expressing the diversity of Oslo’s contemporary scene and show its commitment to anti-racism; of the players featured on the record, many are regulars at Norwegian demonstrations against local anti-Muslim organization SIAN – with the compilation designed to collect funds for local anti-racist work.
Musically, “Frijazz mot rasism” is a fractal head-fry of the highest order, dilating a fertile movement thru spiraling outsider-jazz. If musical nodes are needed for a point of reference,
it flexes from Don Cherry-inspired communal psychedelia sprawlers to fiery shredders, modal percussive cyclones and lushly expressive instrumental virtuosity of a sort we can only imagine would short-circuit and frazzle a pack of bleating Viking gammons.
With well over half the tracks originating from female artists, the set also represents a phase shift in perception, wickedly reprising the form’s historic function as fire music and a soundtrack to civil unrest, but with a decided female energy that’s more agitant than aggressive, in a way that might just calm and enlighten the xenophobes.
There’s a tonne to get down with; Sanskriti Shrestha & Andreas Wildhagen’s modal tabla groover ‘Eight hands’ is a real standout, with subtle treats in the liminal thizz of ‘Up There’ by Propan, and
a strikingly stark solo performance by Inga Aas, held in balance with tussling razz-outs like ‘One out of town’ feat. Brian Sandstrom, and scatting, Dadaist mischief by Agnes Hvizdalek that’s sure to pique interest along with the chaotic swarm of its shred-out finale ‘Primary Antibody’.
Wall to wall enlightening, emotional bangers this one = highest Tip!
Text from Boomkat
