Atomic

Atomic comes this near being truly a Scandinavian free of charge jazz supergroup. It allies the very best line of Open fire House as well as the Fredrik Noren Music group (trumpeter Magnus Broo and saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist) as well as the tempo section from Component (pianist Håvard Wiik), bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. Created in a reaction to the ECM-style of contemporary jazz that found equivalent “Scandinavian jazz” in the thoughts of music followers world-wide, the group proposes a modernized undertake power jazz, sketching from American Open fire Music (Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman) and ’60s Western free of charge improv (Peter Brötzmann’s Machine Weapon). Broo and Ljungkvist have been carrying out collectively in Stockholm (Sweden) because the mid-’90s. Located in Oslo (Norway), Wiik, Håker Flaten, and Nilssen-Love all frequented the Trondheim Music Conservatory in 1994-1995 and performed within the John Coltrane-inspired group Component. By 1999, each one of these music artists regularly done the Scandinavian golf club and jazz event circuits. Ljungkvist, Håker Flaten, and Nilssen-Love also performed in Per “Tx” Johansson’s group, therefore they all understood one another well if they decided to type Atomic. By harnessing Brötzmann-like energy with torrid minds and versatile compositional buildings, they quickly set up their group identification and started touring immediately. Early appearances on the Oslo Jazz Celebration as well as the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Celebration attracted some interest and shortly the label Jazzland guaranteed the release of the first record Feet Music (the name from the Coleman tune).