Bone shaker
The trio Boneshaker represents the kind of powerful music we often associate with Mats Gustafsson and Peter Brötzmann - and not least with the Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. Now Paal is coming to Kongsberg with a relatively new trio where he brings with him musicians he played with in the fabled tentet of Brötzmann. Saxophonist Mars Williams is a genesis of vitality and power, and precisely vitality and power are words we can attach to Kent Kessler and Paal Nilssen-Love as well.
The trio toured North America during the spring of 2014, but it wasn't until the winter of 2016 that the three were together again in Chicago for a new round of concerts and a studio session. The result will be released by Trost Records, this time on both vinyl and CD. The release will be in early summer 2016, in connection with festival concerts in Europe.
Boneshaker will definitely demonstrate to the audience at Kongsberg why they are called exactly that.
Mars Williams (saxophones), Kent Kessler (bass), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums).
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Boneshaker was established some 5 years ago when the three met for a handful of concerts and recording sessions around the Chicago area in early January 2011. The three musicians knew each well through various bands like Hal Russel´s NRG ensemble, Peter Brötzmann´s Chicago tentet, Territory band and had since 2002 wanted to do something together. The trio's debut album was released on the Austrian label Trost and received brilliant reviews in international press such as The Wire, Downbeat and more. The trio toured North America in spring 2014 but it wasn't until winter 2016 that the three were together again in Chicago for another round of concerts and studio sessions. The result will be released by Trost records, this time on both vinyl and CD by early summer 2016, in connection with festival concerts in Europe.
The trio's music remains free improvised, but with clear roots to the American tradition of free jazz. Although all three members are influenced by European improvised music as defined by the English, Dutch and German players of the mid sixties, the three share broad interests in music traditions from all over the world and appreciate when influences are let loose.
This is a very exciting and much welcome blast of old school free jazz energy from a collective group featuring Mars Williams on saxophones, Kent Kessler on bass and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums. Each has deep experience on the outer fringes of the jazz scene and they make for a very cohesive and potent unit.
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