Johan Birgenius - Gathering - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Easy to Write 2. Gay Paean to Thierry 3. Above the Volcano 4. Someone's Yearning 5. Tape Your Head on 6. Just Another F*#ked Up Litttle Druggy 7. Farewell to Ferodo 8. There's a Hole in Daddy's Arm 9. Good God 10. Domestic Bliss 11. Thunder Over Kilburn 12. A Certain Beauty 13. Norman Vaughan's Blues 14. The Underdog 15. While Cars Passing By 16. All Over the World, Girls Are Dreaming 17. Nuts 18. Going Off Someone

The pianist Jan Johansson's revolutionary jazz treatments of traditional Swedish folk songs were a few years away, and he had yet to experiment with modal playing and avant-garde jazz. At this point, he was still playing mostly hard bop, which is the style that dominates here. It gets off to an impressive start with four recordings from Johansson's first session with alto saxophonist Arne Domnerus in 1959. After that, Johansson is heard as a trio pianist in 1959 and 1960. The Swede's expressive pianism demonstrates that while Bud Powell had been a big influence on him, he was quite willing to incorporate the ideas of others who came along, ranged from Bill Evans to Red Garland. Like Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Johansson was far from complacent; he believed in challenging himself and continuing to forge ahead.Exactly Like You2 14Where Or When4 04Sometimes I´m Happy3 04There´s A Small Hotel3 14Younger Than Springtime5 50Love For Sale5 40Autumn Leaves3 12Now See How You Are6 40Mack The Knife2 54Serenade In Blue2 59Beck´s3 25Swingin´ The Blues5 36Serenade In Blue (Alt Take)2 51Beck´s (Alt Take)3 25Swingin´ The Blues (Alt Take)5 41Suburban Street3 44 Album Tracks 1. Exactly Like You 2. Where or When 3. Sometimes I'm Happy 4. There's a Small Hotel 5. Younger Than Springtime 6. Love for Sale 7. Autumn Leaves 8. Now See How You Are 9. Mack the Knife 10. Serenade in Blue 11. Beck's 12. Swingin' the Blues 13. Serenade in Blue [Alternate Take] 14. Beck's [Alt. Tkae] 15. Swingin' the Blues 16. Suburban Street

With their third full-length InchByrjingInch (InchBeginningInch), BYRDI are taking the important step from a highly respected underground act to an established force within the realm of Nordic folk. The Norwegians have recorded this third album with the participation of various other guest musicians including percussionist Kjell Braaten, who has performed live with WARDRUNA among other bands, and Mathias Gyllengahm (UTMARKEN, NORRSINNT) on nyckelharpa (keyed fiddle). InchByrjingInch shows BYRDI in an almost intimate way and while their music may easily be labelled as InchNordic folkInch, the Norwegians foremost sound like themselves. BYRDI were founded in the ancient town of Hov in Eastern Norway by Nash Rothanburg and Jørn Øyhus in the year 2012. Their debut album InchEventyrInch was released in 2014 and has been described as a Inchwild and strange ritualInch. Two years later, the Norwegians had been joined by singer and songwriter Andreas Paulsen and started to work on their sophomore full-length. For the recording of InchAnsur UrkraftInch (2017), the band used various locations in the mountains and woods of Eastern Norway. InchAnsur UrkraftInch created a buzz in the Nordic folk scene and earned the band (among others shows) two invitations to perform at the prestigious Midgardsblot Festival in Borre, Norway among the grave mounds of chieftains from the Viking age and even earlier periods. The fast rise of BYRDI is underlined by more than a million streams of their single InchSolsnuInch, which was aptly first released on the day of winter solstice in 2018. Having been joined by harpist Gulia Wyrd-Svartskog, BYRDI are now ready to spread their music and words to an even greater audience with InchByrjingInch. Album Tracks 1. Solsnu 2. Geirodd 3. Eg 4. Stein PÅ Stein 5. Huldre 6. Heim 7. Byrdi 8. Byrjing