NKM001
Nakama
Before the storm
Artist: Nakama
Album title: Before the Storm
Label: Nakama Records
Catalog number: NKM001LP / NKM001CD
Release: 10th November 2015
Formats and pricing:
- LP from €12
- CD from €5
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- From Norway to Norway
- From Slovenia to EU and rest of the world
Press
«Before the Storm» features four original compositions by Nakama’s leader Christian Meaas Svendsen. The album is the group’s first recording, and can be summed up as an investigation of sound related to silence through a minimalistic approach to both written and improvised material. The pieces are four attempts to define the nature of what we normally define as silence, and presents at the same time a musical idiom of a band that operates on the outside of conventional borders.
Artist bio
Nakama is a five-piece band led by bass player Christian Meaas Svendsen. Improvisation is a central component in the band’s music, and the glue that unites a repertoire spanning from the neo romantic to the contemporary and conceptual. Amongst forms, layers, concepts and structures the players are given room for individual and collective escapades. The result is a mash-up of musical prose, poetry and academia in an incomprehensible yet accessible language.
Credits
Adrian Løseth Waade - violin
Ayumi Tanaka - piano
Andreas Wildhagen - drums
Christian Meaas Svendsen - bass, composition
Recording - Peer Espen Ursjord and Jan Erik Kongshaug
Mix and Master - by Peer Espen Ursjord
Cover art - Christian Meaas Svendsen and Ayumi Tanaka
Cover design - Christian Meaas Svendsen
Andreas / Adrian / Ayumi / Christian