Smalltown Supersound labelnight in Berlin
September 3, 2010Comments Off
ARP: NYC show announced
August 23, 2010Comments Off
Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love: Woodcuts
August 18, 2010Comments Off
CD and digital is out now!
Smalltown Superjazzz is proud to release the second album from the godfather of European free-jazz, Peter Brötzmann and Norwegian virtuos Paal Nilssen-Love. This is the follow-up to „Sweet Sweat“ from 2007. Woodcuts is another free jazz mastodont from the two masters. This is European free-jazz at its best. Recorded live in concert at Kampen in Oslo, Norway. Artwork by Peter Brötzmann in digipack sleeve.
Peter Brötzmann
“Very few musicians in the history of jazz and creative music have created a voice as powerful and distinct as as legendary German saxophonist, Peter Brötzmann. Playing with unyielding conviction, he blows with relentless, brutal passion; an honest and innovative voice during a time of despair, devoid of creative respect and sensitivity”
(Music and the Creative Spirit).
Brötzmann moved into free playing in the early 60`s, one of the first European saxophonists to do so. He has since become a godfather-figure to more than one generation of free-jazz explorers. His most well known record is the legendary Machine Gun from 1968. An album where Brötzmann played punk rock 10 years before punk rock was invented.
Paal Nilssen-Love:
Paal Nilssen-Love is one of the most respected on the Scandinavian jazz scene, and his percussion skills are simply awsome! He is part of The Thing, Original Silence, Offonoff, Atomic and Scorch Trio (with Raoul Björkenheim) He has among others played with Joe McPhee, John Butcher, Thurston Moore, Evan Parker, Jim O`Rourke, and Peter Brötzmann to name a few.
Drivan limited edition LP
August 18, 2010Comments Off
We now have the Drivan “Disko” LP in stock. We have made 500 copies on white vinyl. There will be no repress. These will go fast, but you can secure a copy if you order it at our mailorder here
Uncut’s blog about ARP
August 1, 2010Comments Off
Arp: “The Soft Wave” 2010-06-25 11:30:31
Some correspondence over the past week or so regarding The Alps, whose new album I must admit I’m yet to hear: the last one was pretty cool, something like a kind of psychedelicised Air, if I remember right.
Continued…
During the exchange, though, I was heavily recommending one of the Alps’ solo project, Arp. Alexis Georgopoulos made an album in 2007 called “In Light”, a terrific early runner in what’s become a quietly expansive kosmische revival.
Serendipitously, a new Arp album turned up from Smalltown Supersound a couple of days ago, and it’s fantastic, too. While a lot of the more acclaimed artists in this new kosmische/ambient thing seem to have emerged from a noise background and privilege a fair amount of ‘80s sci-fi chicanery – I’m thinking specifically Oneohtrix Point Never andEmeralds – Arp are part of a more pastoral wing, whose roots lie deep in the ‘70s German countryside.
Somewhere near Forst, perhaps, since, crudely, “The Soft Wave” runs the whole gamut of influences from Cluster toHarmonia, with a radical departure into the realm of Eno to change things up a little. It’s not the most original album I’ve heard over the past few months – “From A Balcony Overlooking The Sea” moves beyond being influenced by “Another Green World”-era Eno, towards a transparent, albeit exquisite, homage.
But it is quite lovely, a meticulous re-realisation of the percolating landscape music that Cluster perfected around “Sowiesoso”, and onwards through Harmonia (“High Life”, in particular, has a saturated line that recalls Michael Rother’s melodic sensibilities, if not explicitly his guitar playing). The odd drift of piano (on “Catch Wave”, say) also recalls some ofRoedelius’ later solo work, not least “Lustwandel”, which fortuitously turned up on reissue the other day.
At times, the gentle persistence of this music echoes that of The Alps (“Alfa (Dusted)” in particular). But from the opening and explanatory “Pastoral Symphony”, this is a real keeper – wouldn’t mind hearing the “Pastoral Symphony” remix byEtienne Jaumet, either.
Diskjokke with Indonesian project at Øya Festival
July 31, 2010Comments Off
Diskjokke will collaborate with the Indonesian project Gamelan at Oslo`s Øya Festival.
Get ARP’s Delorean remix
July 31, 2010Comments Off
Pitchfork has premiered the a ARP remix of Delorean. The track is called “Real Love (Tropical Acid Version by Arp)” and you can download it here
Tussle finally coming to Europe!
July 31, 2010Comments Off
We are happy to announce that San Francisco`s finest is coming to Europe on tour. They will do 12 dates over here and you can see them live here:
August 25, 2010
CRANE LANE THEATRE – IR, Cork
August 26, 2010
TWISTED PEPPER – IR, Dublin
August 27, 2010
CARRE ROTONDES – LUXEMBOURG
w/ Publicist
August 28, 2010
ECOUTES AU VERT – BE, Geneva
w/ Publicist
September 1, 2010
NOUVEAU CASINO – FR, Paris
w/ Publicist
September 2, 2010
CIRCUITO OFF – IT, Venezia
w/ Publicist
September 3, 2010
Camping Hertogenwald – BE, Eupen
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September 4, 2010
ZORO – Leipzig, GERMANY
w/ Publicist
September 6, 2010
BANG BANG CLUB – Berlin, GERMANY
w/ Publicist
September 9, 2010
VILLA – Oslo, NORWAY
w/ Publicist
September 10, 2010
NUMUSIC FESTIVAL – Stavanger, NORWAY
w/ Publicist and more…
September 10, 2010
PHONOFESTIVALEN / KVARTERET – Bergen, NORWAY
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September 13, 2010
VOXHALL – Aarhus, DENMARK
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K-X-P: Clash Magazine interview + Album of the week at Piccadilly
July 31, 2010Comments Off
Check out the K-X-P interview with UK`s Clash Magazine here. The K-X-P album is out now and is album of the week at the great Piccadilly Records. You can order it from them here
Four new albums reviewed in Dusted Magazine
June 24, 2010Comments Off
Dusted Magazine has reviewed the two new duos by Paal Nilssen-Love and Ken Vandermark (Chicago Volume and Milwaukee Volume), Lean Left as well as a new duo album by Nilssen-Love and the mighty Peter Brötzmann titled Woodcuts. Check out the reviews here.
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