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Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten exploded over the Scandinavian avant-garde jazz scene within the middle-’90s. By 2002, he previously become among the hardest functioning bassists there, having made an appearance on a lot more than 20 albums, most of them also offering drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. He has within the Norwegian groupings Component and Atomic. Saxophonist Mats Gustaffson opened up him the doorways to Chicago, where he has in Ken Vandermark’s COLLEGE DAYS. Flaten was created in Oppdal in 1971. He found jazz gradually and driven his profession choice throughout his 3 years on the Trondheim Music Conservatory (1992-1995). There he fulfilled pianist Håvard Wiik with whom he shaped the John Coltrane-inspired group Component. Nilssen-Love became a member of them upon his appearance around in 1993. His 1st released documenting was Olemanns Kornett (needless to say a permutation of Ornette Coleman’s name), a program with the foundation, also including Trygve Seim, Øyvind Btaekke, and Per Oddvar Johansen. Released in 1994 on Styling Legs, it had been followed by another album the next yr. With drummer Johansen and pianist Christian Wallumrød, he shaped the trio Close Erase, whose 1st recording for the label NOR arrived in 1996 — exactly the same yr as Element’s 1st. Those two organizations held Flaten occupied for some time, gigging extensively within the jazz event circuit, both Scandinavian and overseas. He also performed in Bugge Wesseltoft’s New Conception of Jazz and documented three albums with South African saxophonist Zim Ngqawana. In 1999, Håker Flaten, Nilssen-Love, and Wiik became a member of two Swedish horn players to create Atomic. Around once, the bassist and drummer documented a program with well-known saxophonist and bridge to Chicago Mats Gustaffson (FINISHED ., 2000). They both had taken a solution to the U.S. and became a member of Vandermark’s COLLEGE DAYS. Back, the bassist continuing to perform along with his prior groupings while taking part in the top improv ensemble No Spaghetti Model and formed a fresh trio with veteran guitarist Raoul Björkenheim (Scorch Trio, 2002).
