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Da Vinci Jazz
DJ Olive, Ken Filiano, Marco Cappelli, Oscar Noriega, Satoshi Takeishi
Physical and Digital Release: 30 November 2018
Marco Cappelli's Norwegian Landscapes brings guitar, double bass and percussion into dialogue with guest musicians, tracing shifting relationships between composition, improvisation and sonic imagery.
13.67€
Marco Cappelli · Norwegian Landscapes · 13 tracks
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DJ Olive, born Gregor Asch, is an American DJ, turntablist and electronic musician associated with Brooklyn’s experimental music scene. His work draws on dub, ambient music and free improvisation, and he was a member of the group We.
Alongside his own electronic projects, he works with instrumental ensembles, using turntables as a means of live musical interaction. On Norwegian Landscapes, he contributes turntables and live electronics to The Nesbø Project, alongside Marco Cappelli, Ken Filiano, Satoshi Takeishi and Oscar Noriega.
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Ken Filiano is an American double bassist and composer whose work encompasses jazz, free improvisation, classical music and interdisciplinary performance. His approach combines the acoustic instrument’s traditions with an extensive range of experimental techniques.
He has performed and recorded with musicians including Vinny Golia, Connie Crothers, Bobby Bradford, Mark Dresser, Joëlle Léandre and Jason Hwang. His projects include a quartet with Michael Attias, Tony Malaby and Michael T. A. Thompson, and the T.E.C.K. String Quartet with Tomas Ulrich, Elliott Sharp and Carlos Zingaro. His solo recording Subvenire was released by Nine Winds. He plays double bass in the Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio and on Norwegian Landscapes.
Marco Cappelli is an Italian guitarist, composer and bandleader whose work spans contemporary concert music and free improvisation. Born in Naples, he studied classical guitar at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome and continued his training with Oscar Ghiglia in Basel.
A co-founder of Ensemble Dissonanzen, he leads the Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio, Italian Surf Academy and IDR – Italian Doc Remix. His collaborations include Marc Ribot, Enrico Rava, Elliott Sharp, Giovanni Sollima and Adam Rudolph. His discography includes the solo project Extreme Guitar Project: Music from Downtown New York and the Acoustic Trio’s literary trilogy: Les Nuages en France, Le Stagioni del Commissario Ricciardi and Norwegian Landscapes.
Oscar Noriega is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Brooklyn, where he has lived since 1992. He plays alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet and drums.
His collaborators have included Lee Konitz, Anthony Braxton, Gerry Hemingway, Dewey Redman and Paul Motian. His projects include Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, Endangered Blood with Chris Speed, Jim Black and Trevor Dunn, and Banda de los Muertos, co-led with Jacob Garchik and inspired by Mexican brass-band music. On Norwegian Landscapes, he joins the Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio and DJ Olive, playing B-flat clarinet and bass clarinet.
Satoshi Takeishi is a Japanese drummer, percussionist and arranger from Mito. During his studies at Berklee College of Music, he developed an interest in South American musical traditions and subsequently spent four years in Colombia.
There he worked with composer and arranger Francisco Zumaque in the group Macumbia and performed with the Bogotá Symphony Orchestra. After returning to the United States, he continued exploring musical traditions from around the world. He is the percussionist of the Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio and performs on Norwegian Landscapes.
Marco Cappelli is an Italian guitarist and composer working across contemporary music and improvisation. His projects bring together instrumental experimentation, literature and other art forms. For Norwegian Landscapes, he composed seven pieces inspired by characters from Jo Nesbø’s crime novels, interspersed with six improvised interludes.
Norwegian Landscapes completes the Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio’s triptych inspired by contemporary European noir literature, following the first two CDs, dedicated respectively to Fred Vargas (Les Nuages en France, Mode Records, 2011) and Maurizio De Giovanni (Le Stagioni del Commissario Ricciardi, Tzadik, 2013). This time the trio features two guests: clarinet wizard Oscar Noriega and turntable virtuoso DJ Olive, together forming a band called The Nesbø Project. Norwegian Landscapes presents seven compositions named after characters in Jo Nesbø’s crime novels, alternating with six improvised interludes called Norwegian Landscapes. Its aim…
Norwegian Landscapes completes the Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio’s triptych inspired by contemporary European noir literature, following the first two CDs, dedicated respectively to Fred Vargas (Les Nuages en France, Mode Records, 2011) and Maurizio De Giovanni (Le Stagioni del Commissario Ricciardi, Tzadik, 2013).
This time the trio features two guests: clarinet wizard Oscar Noriega and turntable virtuoso DJ Olive, together forming a band called The Nesbø Project.
Norwegian Landscapes presents seven compositions named after characters in Jo Nesbø’s crime novels, alternating with six improvised interludes called Norwegian Landscapes. Its aim is to paint in sound Jo Nesbø’s powerful, visionary and poetic imagination, with its constellation of deeply human characters.
Marco Cappelli
Brooklyn, September 2018
Marco Cappelli — classical and prepared guitar
Ken Filiano — double bass
Satoshi Takeishi — percussion
Oscar Noriega — B-flat clarinet and bass clarinet
DJ Olive — turntables and live electronics
All compositions by Marco Cappelli (SIAE), dedicated to the characters in Jo Nesbø’s crime novels.
Recorded by James Dallatacoma in January 2015 at Orange Music Sound Studios, Orange, New Jersey, USA.
Mixed by Giuseppe Salvadori in April 2015 at Officine Meccaniche, Milan, Italy.
Artwork by Pia Valentinis.
Front: The Scream in the Forest, a homage to Edvard Munch.
Back: Norwegian Landscape.
Photographs by Scott Friedlander and Peter Gannushkin.
Thanks to Luca Di Vito, Bill Laswell, Mauro Pagani, Øyvind Pharo and Adam Rudolph for their inspiration and support. Thanks to Jo Nesbø for his kind availability and for being “a positive but silent bystander”.
Marcia del potere marcio means “March of the Corrupt Establishment”.
Asajev Song: Homage to Igor is freely inspired by the overture to Igor Stravinsky’s Mavra.
Selected awards, reviews and interviews. Radio broadcasts and podcasts are listed separately below.
NeuGuitars
“È cambiata la qualità? No.”
A positive review exploring the interplay of composition, improvisation and the atmosphere of Jo Nesbø’s crime fiction.
Read the review ↗ - NeuGuitarsL’Isola che non c’era
“Gran disco, brulicante di umori acustico-elettronici”
The Su di corda feature praises the album’s acoustic and electronic colours, structured compositions and atmospheric improvised interludes.
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A concert report on the Rome presentation of Norwegian Landscapes praises the ensemble's performance and explains the album's relationship with the fiction of Jo Nesbo. The comments assess the live presentation, not the recording in isolation.
Explore the coverage ↗ - La VoceBroadcasts, conversations and listening features dedicated to this recording.
Mondo Jazz · All About Jazz
Noir Landscapes: Marco Cappelli’s Remarkable Artistry includes Bat Hunt and Harry Hole’s Mood from this recording, within a programme devoted to the guitarist’s work.
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