Bugge Wesseltoft - Yellow is the colour

From album "Moving" released in 2001 by Jazzland.

Personnel:
Bugge Wesseltoft (Piano, Fender Rhodes, Synthesizers, Samples, Programming and Voice)
Anders Engen (Drums)
Jonas Lönna (Drum Programming)
Paolo Vinaccia (Percussion)
Ingebrigt Flaten (Double Bass) - 2,6
Marius Reksjo (Double Bass) - 1
Hakon Kornstad (Tenor Saxophone) - 3

Tracks:
1.  Change (Bugge Wesseltoft) 10:25
2.  Gare du Nord (Bugge Wesseltoft/Anders Engen/Ingebrigt Flaten/Jonas Lönna/Paolo Vinaccia) 12:40
3.  Yellow Is The Colour (Bugge Wesseltoft) 10:40
4.  Lone (Bugge Wesseltoft) 10:05
5.  Moving (Bugge Wesseltoft/Anders Engen/Ingebrigt Flaten/Jonas Lönna/Paolo Vinaccia) 12:58
6.  South (Bugge Wesseltoft) 8:06

Jazzland, 2001


Moving narrows focus from the uneven eclecticism of previous Wesseltoft records, concentrating on live in the studio performances from a seasoned touring outfit. The results are engaging if not quite 'the new conception of jazz' that's been promised by Bugge (pronounced 'Boogie', if you were wondering) and his mates.

Whatever, this music avoids the usual chilly atmospherics associated with Nordic jazz; the band set up infectious, often house derived grooves which, coupled with Wesseltoft's plangent electric piano on the opening "Change", superficially echo the likes of St Germain, except that the improvisational skills on show here are miles ahead of the usual jazz housers.

Wesseltoft is the featured soloist throughout but he's more interested in episodic bursts and textures than thematic development; his synth stylings on the almost-techno title track recall ambient pioneers Cluster.

"Yellow is the Colour" features Hakon Kornstad's Pharoah Sanders-esque tenor stylings and is simply beautiful - a sampladelic recasting of classic Impulse jazz which sounds completely unforced. Ingebrigt Flaten's springy, warm double bass playing is a joy throughout. Beautiful.


BBC Review By Peter Marsh
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/6x25


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