Gonimoblast — Gonimoblast Live (30 Jun 2017) |
Gonimoblast — Gonimoblast Live (30 Jun 2017) ♦ο Gonimoblast Live with Maja SK Ratkje and Arve Henriksen review — electronica with improv clout
♦ο Definice gonimoblastu: jedno ze sporogenních vláken, které vznikají z oplodněného carpogonia ve většině červených řas; také: agregace těchto vláken.Location: Birmingham, UK
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Experimental
Album release: 30 Jun 2017
Record Label: Stoney Lane
Duration: 123:44
Tracks:
1~1 Part I 9:30
1~2 Part II 15:59
1~3 Part III 10:34
1~4 Part IV 8:41
1~5 Part V 9:22
1~6 Part VI 12:07
2~1 Part I 10:21
2~2 Part II 5:21
2~3 Part III 4:43
2~4 Part IV 7:40
2~5 Part V 14:18
2~6 Part VI 15:07
Credits:
ο Chris Mapp — Bass, Electronics
ο Mark Sanders — Drums, Cymbal, Percussion
ο Leafcutter John — Electronics, Vocals, Other [Light Interface], Musical Box
ο Dan Nicholls — Keyboards, Synth
ο Peter Beckmann — Mastered
ο Chris Mapp — Mixed
ο Nils Edstrom — Recorded
ο Arve Henriksen — Trumpet, Vocals, Electronics
ο Maja S. K. Ratkje — Vocals, Electronics, Other [Oscillator]
Review
John Fordham, Thursday 31 August 2017 19.20 BST / Score: ***
♦ο Gonimoblast are a London and Midlands five~piece electronica band, formed by bassist Chris Mapp after an inspiring trip to Norway’s Punkt festival, and including Polar Bear electronicist Leafcutter John and free~jazz drummer Mark Sanders. The group recorded two successive live shows for this limited~edition, screenprinted double album, with celebrated Norwegian adventurers Maja SK Ratkje (vocals) and Arve Henriksen, who plays flutelike, wind~toned ambient trumpet. The effects often suggest rubbed wineglasses or babbling brooks, but there are plenty of smoky, mysteriously hooting jazz~horn sounds and the participants’ jazz links are plain in both the rhythmic language and the collective improv feel. The disconsolately echoing purity of Ratkje’s chants dramatically contrast with churning electronic undercurrents and Mapp’s fast~moving basslines, while her scat~like staccato inventions rise amid orchestral effects like hordes of violins. Henriksen’s half of the set is more song~shaped, as his plaintive trumpet exhalations and querulous~chorister vocals wheel amid fast, free~swing drum patterns, church~organ reverberations and nudging jazz~piano chords. It’s electronica, but with plenty of mood~swinging clout.
♦ο https://www.theguardian.com/
Arve Henriksen: http://www.arvehenriksen.com/
Bandcamp: https://gonimoblast.bandcamp.com/
Chris Mapp: http://www.chrismapp.co.uk/
Dan Nicholls: http://www.dan-nicholls.com/
Maja S. Ratkje: http://ratkje.no/
Mark Sanders: https://www.marksanders.me.uk/
Leafcutter John: http://leafcutterjohn.com/
¬» “Ratkje brings a feral disregard for conventional form, combined with an extravagant imagination, linking it all to a fascination with the human voice and its communicative possibilities. Her works are dramatic, engaging and wildly diverse.”
Financial Times 2015
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Gonimoblast — Gonimoblast Live (30 Jun 2017) |
Gonimoblast — Gonimoblast Live (30 Jun 2017) ♦ο Gonimoblast Live with Maja SK Ratkje and Arve Henriksen review — electronica with improv clout
♦ο Definice gonimoblastu: jedno ze sporogenních vláken, které vznikají z oplodněného carpogonia ve většině červených řas; také: agregace těchto vláken.Location: Birmingham, UK
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Experimental
Album release: 30 Jun 2017
Record Label: Stoney Lane
Duration: 123:44
Tracks:
1~1 Part I 9:30
1~2 Part II 15:59
1~3 Part III 10:34
1~4 Part IV 8:41
1~5 Part V 9:22
1~6 Part VI 12:07
2~1 Part I 10:21
2~2 Part II 5:21
2~3 Part III 4:43
2~4 Part IV 7:40
2~5 Part V 14:18
2~6 Part VI 15:07
Credits:
ο Chris Mapp — Bass, Electronics
ο Mark Sanders — Drums, Cymbal, Percussion
ο Leafcutter John — Electronics, Vocals, Other [Light Interface], Musical Box
ο Dan Nicholls — Keyboards, Synth
ο Peter Beckmann — Mastered
ο Chris Mapp — Mixed
ο Nils Edstrom — Recorded
ο Arve Henriksen — Trumpet, Vocals, Electronics
ο Maja S. K. Ratkje — Vocals, Electronics, Other [Oscillator]
Review
John Fordham, Thursday 31 August 2017 19.20 BST / Score: ***
♦ο Gonimoblast are a London and Midlands five~piece electronica band, formed by bassist Chris Mapp after an inspiring trip to Norway’s Punkt festival, and including Polar Bear electronicist Leafcutter John and free~jazz drummer Mark Sanders. The group recorded two successive live shows for this limited~edition, screenprinted double album, with celebrated Norwegian adventurers Maja SK Ratkje (vocals) and Arve Henriksen, who plays flutelike, wind~toned ambient trumpet. The effects often suggest rubbed wineglasses or babbling brooks, but there are plenty of smoky, mysteriously hooting jazz~horn sounds and the participants’ jazz links are plain in both the rhythmic language and the collective improv feel. The disconsolately echoing purity of Ratkje’s chants dramatically contrast with churning electronic undercurrents and Mapp’s fast~moving basslines, while her scat~like staccato inventions rise amid orchestral effects like hordes of violins. Henriksen’s half of the set is more song~shaped, as his plaintive trumpet exhalations and querulous~chorister vocals wheel amid fast, free~swing drum patterns, church~organ reverberations and nudging jazz~piano chords. It’s electronica, but with plenty of mood~swinging clout.
♦ο https://www.theguardian.com/
Arve Henriksen: http://www.arvehenriksen.com/
Bandcamp: https://gonimoblast.bandcamp.com/
Chris Mapp: http://www.chrismapp.co.uk/
Dan Nicholls: http://www.dan-nicholls.com/
Maja S. Ratkje: http://ratkje.no/
Mark Sanders: https://www.marksanders.me.uk/
Leafcutter John: http://leafcutterjohn.com/
¬» “Ratkje brings a feral disregard for conventional form, combined with an extravagant imagination, linking it all to a fascination with the human voice and its communicative possibilities. Her works are dramatic, engaging and wildly diverse.”
Financial Times 2015
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