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Ketil Bjornstad - La notte | ECM 3724553

Ketil Bjornstad - La notte

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Label: ECM

Cat No: 3724553

Barcode: 0602537245536

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 29th April 2013

Contents

Artists

Ketil Bjornstad (piano)
Andy Sheppard (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone)
Anja Lechner (cello)
Eivind Aarset (guitars, electronics)
Arild Andersen (double bass)
Marilyn Mazur (percussion, drums)

Works

Bjornstad, Ketil

La notte

Artists

Ketil Bjornstad (piano)
Andy Sheppard (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone)
Anja Lechner (cello)
Eivind Aarset (guitars, electronics)
Arild Andersen (double bass)
Marilyn Mazur (percussion, drums)

About

Commissioned by the Molde International Jazz Festival and recorded live at the Norwegian festival in 2010, “La notte” is a salute to Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, whom Ketil Bjørnstad counts amongst his formative influences. “At the same time that I discovered what jazz could be, after listening to Miles Davis’s In A Silent Way, I also saw the films by Godard, Bresson and Antonioni. Perhaps it was the slow, rhythmic authority in the films by Michelangelo Antonioni that made me think of music... As long as visual art creates music in our minds, and music creates pictures and visual expressions with the same intensity, the two are deeply and profoundly interdependent.”

This album, then, can be considered “the soundtrack to an inner film”, in which Antonioni’s images and atmospheres are translated and transformed through personal moods and memories. For the Molde concert, Bjørnstad convened a special Norwegian-Danish-German-British band of musicians, old and new friends closely associated with ECM. The concert was rapturously received by the media, and described as an “absolutely stunning performance” by All About Jazz.

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