A meeting of two strong and imaginative improvisors and musical adventurers.
During the last 5 years ILK in Copenhagen and BlowOut in Oslo has cooperated on the curating and production of a long series of concerts feat. a wide array of Nordic artists. The last two concerts are playing during Vinterjazz 2022
This night feat Julie Kjær and Norwegian drum hurricane Paal Nilssen Love.
A true all star duo with two of the most in demand artists in Scandinavia.
The group plays Oslo in April.
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Julie Kjærs rå, kantede og eftertænksomme spil og ‘dark, otherworldly imagery’ (Jazzwise) er i stigende grad blevet bemærket på den europæiske jazz og ny musik scene, bevægende sig mellem komposition og improviseret musik. Igennem eksperimenter med ‘extended techniques’, klang og rytme presser hun sine instrumenter til det yderste.
“…one of the most impressive new voices o...
A meeting of two strong and imaginative improvisors and musical adventurers.
During the last 5 years ILK in Copenhagen and BlowOut in Oslo has cooperated on the curating and production of a long series of concerts feat. a wide array of Nordic artists. The last two concerts are playing during Vinterjazz 2022
This night feat Julie Kjær and Norwegian drum hurricane Paal Nilssen Love.
A true all star duo with two of the most in demand artists in Scandinavia.
The group plays Oslo in April.
….
Julie Kjærs rå, kantede og eftertænksomme spil og ‘dark, otherworldly imagery’ (Jazzwise) er i stigende grad blevet bemærket på den europæiske jazz og ny musik scene, bevægende sig mellem komposition og improviseret musik. Igennem eksperimenter med ‘extended techniques’, klang og rytme presser hun sine instrumenter til det yderste.
“…one of the most impressive new voices on the London jazz and improv scene” Stewart Smith, The Wire July ’16.
Hun indspiller og turnerer internationalt med Paal Nilssen-Love og Large Unit. Hun har turneret internationalt og indspillet med Django Bates. De seneste år har hun bl.a. fokuseret sit arbejde på trioen ‘Julie kjær 3’ med bassist John Edwards og trommeslager Steve Noble. De har turneret i både Europa og Japan. Trioens debut album ‘Dobbeltgænger’ udkom i 2016 på Clean Feed Records. Et nyere projekt er duoen med Thurston Moore . Deres “New Life Music” udkom i august ’20 på Cafe Oto's (London) digitale pladeselskab TakuRuko.
I efteråret 2017 komponerede hun bestillingsværket “This Is Where You See Me” til den prestige fyldte Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. En co-commission med den danske festival G((o))ng Tomorrow.
Hun spiller med London Improvisers Orchestra og er primus motor og side-woman på adskillige andre danske, engelske, svenske og norske projekter. Hun har spillet og samarbejdet med folk som: Marshall Allen, Thurston Moore, Marilyn Mazur, Dave Douglas, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Laura Toxværd, Jeppe Zeeberg, Dave Liebman, Laura Jurd, ‘Leafcutter’ John, Mira Calix, Sten Sandell og Steve Beresford.
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Paal Nilssen-Love is one of the Norwegian jazz scenes most influential and hard working drummers. Through his work in several bands and ensembles and through corporation with several of the giants in free jazz and improved, he’s been one of the spear points of the raw and energetic Scandinavian free jazz scene. Since the mid 90s Nilssen-Love has figured on more than 260 albums - 50 on his own label! He has been a central part of bands like Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, Atomic, The Thing, The Quintet, Scorch Trio, Frode Gjerstad Trio among a dozen others and an important musical collaborator for musicians like Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark, Akira Sakata, Arto Lindsay, Dave Rempis, Otomo Yoshihide, Michiyo Yagi.
The PULS koncerts are supported by Nordisk Kulturfond, Statens Kunstfond, KODA and Københavns Kommune.
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