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CHICAGO ODENSE ENSEMBLE

CHICAGO ODENSE ENSEMBLE (LP) (LTD)
Label EL PARAISO
Catalog EPR051LP
Format LP
Discs 1
Category JAZZ/BLUES/COUNTRY
Street Date 2019-02-15
Description
(LP+DL) Chicago Odense Ensemble is a unique collaboration that came together in the winter of 2008 while Danish musicians Jonas Munk and Jakob Skøtt stayed in Chicago. Via mutual friends, and a support gig for Isotope 217 in Millenium Park, a studio session was arranged for the two to improvise and lay down ideas with some of Chicago’s finest improvisers, including members of Tortoise and Chicago Underground Collective. Improvisation isn’t unusual for the two, however, as they were already more than accustomed to working from spontaneity and freeform structures in long-running psych/kraut/prog unit Causa Sui, and has since then participated in a number of installments of the Impetus series on their own El Paraiso Records label – a series dedicated to impro sessions, chance collaborations and live recordings. During the Chicago studio session hours of loose ideas, grooves and atmospherics were recorded, ranging from loud, intense musical outbursts led by cornetist Rob Mazurek, to delicate, colourful ambiences. Later, the finest moments were edited, re-arranged and mixed by Jonas Munk in his studio in Odense, doing a great deal of cutting and pasting, and adding a psychedelic and dubby vibe to the soundscape, using delays and effects as instruments during the mixing process. The result is something quite unique: a sonic brew that exists somewhere in between the aesthetics of impro jazz, hypnotic rock and electronica. The closest reference for this kind of music is probably early 1970s proto-fusion jazz that strived for a similar synthesis of jazz improvisation, psychedelic rock, eastern and african sounds as well as the use of the studio as a musical tool. Conceptually this album therefore seems more related to Miles Davis’ ventures into electric music in the late 1960s that culminated in the early 1970s with albums such as Live Evil..
tracklisting
1. Parallel Motions
2. Emanuelle
3. Spirals
4. Glide Path
5. Soup
6. Spine Dots
7. Delivery
8. Pretty Nice
 

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