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Jon Balke, Stian Omenås & Endre Ruset - Noriaki (2023)

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Jon Balke, Stian Omenås & Endre Ruset - Noriaki (2023)

Jon Balke, Stian Omenås & Endre Ruset - Noriaki (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 149 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 95 Mb | 00:41:24
Contemporary Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative, Poetry | Label: NYE NOR

Molde author Endre Ruset has had great success with his poetry book, Noriaki, which was published by Flamme Forlag in 2017. It has been called jump poetry, as the poems throughout use the name Noriaki, after the legendary Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai. Since 2014, Noriaki has also been a tea ceremony and an evolving art project with musician Stian Omenås. In 2022, Endre and Stian decided to make a recording of the Noriaki book.

Jon Balke - Siwan: Hafla (2022)

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Jon Balke - Siwan: Hafla (2022)

Jon Balke - Siwan: Hafla (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 210 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 125 Mb | Covers included | 00:45:27
Jazz, Ethnic Fusion, Female Vocal | Label: ECM Records

Siwan, the transcultural, trans-idiomatic musical collective led by Norwegian keyboardist/composer Jon Balke, continues along its special path, with new music inspired by the creative spirit of Al-Andalus. The ensemble weaves lines of communication between musicians from multiple traditions and locations. Among the texts set by Balke on Siwan’s third album and persuasively sung by Algerian vocalist Mona Boutchebak are verses by Ummayad princess Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (1010-1091) and contemporaries including Ibn Zaydun (1003-1071) and Ibn Sara As-Santarini (1043-1123). Hafla was recorded in May and June 2021 at Village Recording Studios, in Copenhagen.

Jon Balke - Discourses (2020)

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Jon Balke - Discourses (2020)

Jon Balke - Discourses (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 144 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 112 Mb | Artwork included | 00:43:43
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: ECM Records

Jon Balke’s unique solo work blurs distinctions between composition, improvisation and sound design as Discourses further develops the methodology introduced with the Norwegian pianist’s Warp album. Integrated in the resonant sound of his piano music are “layered soundscapes” of processed material which Balke describes as “distorted reflections and reverberations from the world.” Underpinning the project are some thoughts about language, and the notion of discourse and dialogue as fading concepts in an era of confrontational rhetoric. Balke: “In this work I had the framework of language with me from the beginning. As the political climate hardened in 2019 with more and more polarized speech, the lack of dialogue pointed me towards the terms that constitute the titles for the tracks.” Discourses was recorded at Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo in December 2019, and produced by Manfred Eicher.