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Michiyo Yagi | Dai Fujikura - New Album - Bibi
Koto virtuoso Michiyo Yagi and acclaimed composer-musician Dai Fujikura join forces on an instrumental album of striking originality.
Bibi features two internationally acclaimed Japanese iconoclasts whose unique activities transcend genre conventions.
Hot on the heels of The Bow Maker – Dai Fujikura’s collaboration with sampling wizard Jan Bang released on Jazzland Recordings / Punkt Editions last September – comes another exciting collaborative effort from Fujikura, this time with the maverick instrumentalist Michiyo Yagi.
Harald Lassen - New Single - When He Sleeps
Harald Lassen's musical language is jazz, but it is a highly personal idiom with its own accent and vocabulary. His music is the product of a free and open mind. "When He Sleeps", the second single taken from the forthcoming album "Balans", is a melodic fugue, a richly layered sonic confection of shifting moods, and is delightfully unclassifiable and familiar at the same time.
We Are - New Album - Junk Jewelry
We Are is an Oslo-based trio consisting of Karl Hjalmar Nyberg on saxophone and keyboards, Aaron Mandelmann on double bass and Axel Skalstad on drums.
Despite their young age, Nyberg, Mandelmann and Skalstad have established themselves as critically acclaimed and important figures in the Norwegian jazz scene. They are known from projects such as the Norwegian Grammy nominated Megalodon Collective, Krokofant, Kalle, Trondheim Jazzorkester and several other ensembles.
