Atomic (Band)

Atomic, established in 1999 Norwegian / Swedish jazz quintet that comes from the field of Modern Creative and free jazz.

History

The critic François Couture considers the establishment of Atomic response to the ( ironically Mountain Jazz designated ) ECM - style in modern jazz, often with the Scandinavian jazz would equate for many listeners. The " free jazz supergroup " brings together musicians from the famous Swedish formations Firehouse and Fredrik Norén band as the trumpeter Magnus Broo and saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist, who also composes a significant part of the repertoire of the band; the rhythm section comes from the band element, namely the pianist Håvard Wiik, bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen -Love the. In contrast to the ECM sound of many Scandinavian groups Atomic draws its influence from the U.S. models of the free jazz movement of the '60s, such as Archie Shepp album Fire Music, Charles Mingus, George Russell, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman and the Music on the European scene of New improvisational music, as Peter Brötzmann Machine Gun of 1968. Atomic is also the music of Ken Vandermark close, have often collaborated with the musician of the band.

Broo and Ljungkvist had worked together in Stockholm since the 1990s; in Oslo had Wiik, Haker Flaten and Nilssen -Love 1994/95 studied at the Trondheim Music Conservatory where he founded, inspired by John Coltrane's music band member. In the late 1990s, all five musicians worked frequently in Scandinavian clubs and at jazz festivals together. This resulted in the spring of 1999, the decision establishing Atomic. In August 2000 they introduced themselves at the Oslo Jazz Festival. After François Couture come together in their game Brötzmann energetic game with flexible compositional structures, which quickly formed the identity of the group and they got acquainted with numerous festival appearances in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe, on the Oslo Jazz Festival and the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival. For Bugge Wesseltoft's Jazzland label Oslo then the beginning of 2001 was the first album the group Feet Music; the title refers to an Ornette Coleman composition. Published in 2004 a triple album with live recordings from Norway to conclude an extensive European and U.S. tour (The Bikini Tapes).

The critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton seen as a key figure of the quintet only formally occurring in the classical Paal Nilssen Hardbopbesetzung the drummer -Love, who organized the highest level of power and impulse noise, while he usually plays with a disciplined economy of force

The band worked in the course of its existence, with jazz musicians such as Chris Potter, Iain Ballamy, Jukka Perko and Per "Texas" Johansson together.

Discography

• Feet Music ( Jazzland, 2001)
• Boom Boom ( Jazzland, 2002)
• The Bikini Tapes ( Jazzland, 2004)
• Happy New Ears ( Jazzland, 2006)
• Coming Up from the Streets ( Dandy Land, 2008 )
• Retrograde ( Jazzland, 2009)