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Description
'Facienda' is the remarkable 3-volume, triple album from the innovative Norwegian quintet Motif, released on Jazzland Recordings and featuring trumpeter Mathias Eick, amongst other guests.
Across the three albums elements of classical chamber music jostle and rub shoulders with free jazz, Zappaesque humour, the intensity of Squarepusher and Aphex Twin, as well as more traditional pre-bop jazz. Volume 1 was recorded in the studio, whereas Volumes 2 and 3 present Motif performing live in Norway and Japan with an extended line up.
While it might be straightforward to classify Motif as a strain of Free Jazz, it is clear that they have as much in common with modern classical chamber music, never stumbling into all-out muscular high-energy performance for prolonged periods, opting instead for short bursts of chaotic revelry underpinned by a carefully studied creation of textures. It is their playfulness mixed with intellectual depth and emotional expression that sets Motif apart from other jazz groups. Repeated listens offer more each time, new surprises, realisations of how things connect, subtleties that escaped on the first go around. With 'Facienda', Motif have raised the bar for what jazz in the 21st Century can be.
Personnel: Atle Nymo (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet), Eivind Lønning (trumpet), Håvard Wiik (piano), Ole Morten Vågan (bass), Håkon Mjåset Johansen (drums), Mathias Eick (trumpet), Håkon Kornstad (tenor saxophone), Peter Vågan (guitar), Mattias Ståhl (vibraphone)
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Tracklisting
- 1. Truffle Pigs and Katmandu Stray Dogs
- 2. Biggie
- 3. Seksten
- 4. Monk Ease
- 5. Die Kunst
- 6. The Intimacy of Open Doors
- 7. Baksheesh
- 8. Monument
- 1. Paddy Whack
- 2. Krakatau
- 3. I Distinctly Heard the Sound of a Mexican Rhythm Combo
- 4. Toobaii
- 5. Korean Barbeque Smokeout
- 6. Immunofluoresence
- 7. The Ultimate Complexity
- 1. Spacewalk
- 2. Allkiis
- 3. What Not
- 4. Death in Tokyo
- 5. Tunnelvision
- 6. Apo Calypso
Disc 1
Side 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
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