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| 1. | She Passes The House Of Her Grandmother
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| 2. | The Birch 1
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| 3. | Royal Garden
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| 4. | Somewhere East
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| 5. | Travelling
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| 6. | The Birch 2
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| 7. | Ballimaran
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| 8. | Watering
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| 9. | Before Church
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| 10. | The Birch 3
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| 11. | Two Waltzing, One Square And Then
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| 12. | Fooling Around
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| 13. | The Gardener
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| 14. | The Birch 4
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Jazz
Recorded November 1996
Christian Wallumrod piano
Arve Henriksen trumpet
Hans-Kristian Kjos Sorensen percussion
ECM's already broad Nordic panorama is further expanded with the debut of a trio of young Norwegians. Their subtle, serious, original music shows an astute awareness of the achievements of Scandinavian jazz, yet also looks beyond it. The internal dynamic of the band derives from the adroit balancing of its members' musical preferences. Christian Wallumrød is inspired by Paul Bley's daring use of space, Arve Henriksen makes free improvisation his first priority, and Hans-Kristian Kjos Sorensen is recognized as the foremost classical percussionist in Norway today.
Christian Wallumrod
Active Decade: '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Classical Crossover
Pianist and composer Christian Wallumrod was born in 1971 in Kongsberg, Norway. He began playing piano at the age of 12 and by 15 he had fallen under the pull of jazz, and made it the center of his studies while attending the music conservatory in Trondheim. Wallumrod began playing piano professionally with guitarist Jon Eberson in 1993, but after 1997 he began to be increasingly involved in his own projects, attracting the attention of Manfred Eicher of ECM Records, who released an album, No Birch, attributed to the Christian Wallumrod Trio, on the label in 1998. Sofienberg Variations appeared on ECM in 2003, this time under the group name the Christian Wallumrod Ensemble -- aside from Wallumrod, the ensemble included Nils Okland on violin, Arve Henriksen on trumpet, and Per Oddvar Johansen on drums, as well as Trygve Seim, who contributed tenor sax on a couple of the tracks. By 2005, when A Year from Easter was released by ECM, Gjormund Larsen had replaced Okland on violin, and Tanja Orning on cello and harpist Giovanna Pessi had also been brought on board. The ensemble specialized in a kind of beautiful and downbeat ambient pop-jazz with classical overtones and a healthy dose of John Cage-like experimentation (Wallumrod gets more mileage out of toy pianos than any musician in recent memory) that flirts with new age without actually going there. A third ECM album, The Zoo Is Far, appeared in 2007. Wallumrød also works as part of the trio Close Erase with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and the Wallumrød Ensemble's Johansen as well as playing in an additional trio with singer Elin Rosseland and bassist Johannes Eick. Wallumrod has also been playing with Sidsel Endresen since 2002, releasing an album, Merriwinkle, with the singer in 2004.
--- Steve Leggett, All Music Guide |
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