Grand General

A Norwegian heavy fusion supergroup of types, this quintet initially performed beneath the moniker Kenneth Kapstad Group, maybe leading some to consider the ensemble like a spinoff of drummer Kapstad’s most well-known clothing, the longstanding Trondheim-based psych-prog-metal music group Motorpsycho, whom Kapstad joined up with in 2007. The Kenneth Kapstad Group was constructed to perform in the 2010 Trondheim Jazzfest, and presented several former college students from the Trondheim Musikkonservatorium jazz system, including Kapstad himself aswell as keyboardist Erland Slettevoll and violinist/violist Ola Kvernberg, the second option of whom earned a 2011 Spellemannprisen (Norwegian Grammy) for Jazz Recording of the entire year for his expansive contemporary creative octet documenting Liarbird and garnered positive see for his playing for the Motorpsycho/Ståle Storløkken opus The Loss of life Defying Unicorn in 2012. The music group lineup also presented bassist Trond Frønes, an associate of “caveman metallic” music group Goat the top (along with Kapstad) and additional rock and metallic rings (e.g., Cadillac, Un Doom, the Created Electric, Sunswitch) for the Norwegian picture, as well mainly because guitarist Actually Helte Hermansen, an Ace Frehley and Sonny Sharrock lover who kicks it away as an associate from the Rune Grammofon power jazz trio Bushman’s Revenge. Placing to rest the idea that was a Kenneth Kapstad-led task, the quintet transformed its name to Grand General before the discharge of its eponymously entitled debut record by Rune Grammofon in Feb 2013. Provided violinist/violist Kvernberg’s positioning in the group’s fusion-tinged agreements (not forgetting the quintet’s various other instrumentation of guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums), Grand General asked comparison towards the Mahavishnu Orchestra offering violinist Jerry Goodman, although this quintet is normally frequently thicker, heavier, and even more pummeling — fusion melded with steel, space rock and roll, and prog. The composing on Grand General was divide between Kvernberg and bassist Frønes, the last mentioned of whom brought his very own metallic edge towards the group’s compositions.