Michael Wollny Oslo
"Oslo" is about Michael Wollny the masterful auteur of compelling movies, dense narratives, dazzling paintings in sound which occupy the ever-shifting ground between jazz, classical and new music. His award-winning trio receives a whole new sound palette courtesy of the miraculous free improvisers of the Norwegian Wind Ensemble.
From Oslo to the Wartburg Castle at Eisenach is a 1,283 km car journey. It is a distance which can also be travelled by a totally different route, one which also passes through all the changing landscapes in between: you simply stay put on your sofa with your hi-fi in front of you. Michael Wollny has achieved a remarkable feat in making this possible, and the story – with his explanation of how it happened – is well worth telling.From 5 to 7 September last year, Siggi Loch invited Wollny, bassist Christan Weber and drummer Eric Schaefer to Rainbow Studio in Oslo to record a new trio album. For the third day in the studio, an encounter was arranged with the Norwegian Wind Ensemble, directed by Geir Lysne. This is a group interested in going beyond its own genre, and which also has the capacity to improvise. “After collaborating live a f...
Line up:Michael Wollny / piano
Christian Weber / double bass
Eric Schaefer / drums, live electronics (13)
Norwegian Wind Ensemble (01, 08 & 13)
Geir Lysne / curator (real time music)
Produced by Siggi Loch
Recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, September 5 - 7, 2017
Recording Engineers: Jan Erik Kongshaug & Peer Espen Ursfjord. Piano technician: Thron Irby
Mixed and mastered by Adrian von Ripka, December 2017
Cover art by Manfred Bockelmann
Track List:
- Make a wish ( Michael Wollny)02:37
- Hello dave ( Michael Wollny)04:04
- Farbenlehre ( Michael Wollny)03:19
- Piano trio op.120, andantino ( Gabriel Fauré, arr. by Eric Schaefer)05:07
- Zweidrei ( Eric Schaefer)02:15
- Interludium ( Paul Hindemith, arr. Wollny, Weber, Schaefer)03:53
- Roses are black ( Heinz Sauer)04:19
- Longnote ( Geir Lysne)03:17
- Nuits blanches ( Claude Debussy, arr. by Eric Schaefer)05:04
- Perpetuum mobile ( Eric Schaefer)03:05
- Cantus articus ( Einojuhani Rautavaara, arr. by Wollny, Weber, Schaefer)04:01
- There again ( Michael Wollny)03:44
- The whiteness of the whale ( Michael Wollny)11:52