Infolding
SPIN MARVEL'S
Third Provocative, Genre-Busting Project
Nils Petter Molvaer
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RareNoiseRecords
Debut
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Nils Petter Molvaer
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Trumpet
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Martin France
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Drums
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Terje Evensen
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Live Electronics
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Tim Harries
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Bass
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Emre Ramazanoglu
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Drums
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ABOUT THE LABEL - RareNoiseRecords was founded in late 2008 by two Italians, guitarist/arranger/ producer Eraldo Bernocchi and all-round music nut Giacomo Bruzzo. Located
in London, the label was created to present a platform to musicians and
listeners alike who think beyond musical boundaries of genre. For
further information and to listen please go to www.rarenoiserecords.com .
New York, March 2, 2015 - Spin Marvel is the brainchild of British drummer Martin France, here joined by an all-star crew of celebrated Norwegian trumpeter and electronic music pioneer Nils Petter Molvaer, bassist Tim Harries (formerly of Bill Bruford's Earthworks), Norwegian electronic sculptor Terje Evensen and remix maestro Emre Ramazanoglu. Together they create spacious and dramatic soundscapes of profound intensity on the startlingly original Infolding, blending aspects of free jazz, ambient music and electronica in provocative ways.
From
the serene to the unsettling, this latest Spin Marvel project morphs
into a myriad of moods and melodies over the course of six dynamic
tracks. "Canonical" opens with an airy ambient touch before
exploding into free jazz tumult paced by Harries' throbbing fuzz bass
and France's powerful traversing of the kit, with Molvaer's highly
processed cathartic wail layered over the top. "Tuesday's Blues"
opens with spacious trumpet before gradually evolving into an
in-the-moment adventure anchored by Harries' hellacious fuzz bass and
France's interactive, Elvin Jones-inspired swing beat. "Two Hill Town"
has Molvaer creating half-time trumpet melodies that float dreamily
over France's simmering pulse before the proceedings heat up to a
turbulent boil. "Leap Second" makes dramatic use of silence and
echo, with Molvaer's haunting trumpet tones resounding over France's
subtle brushwork before the piece builds to an intense crescendo. The
16-minute "Same Hand Swiss Double Pug" opens as a kind of ambient
bolero before France bursts into a Buddy Rich styled flurry on the
snare drum midway thru, triggering a change in mood that culminates in a
freewheeling collective improv. And the collection closes on a haunting
and kinetic note with the echo-laden "Minus Two," Emre's lone drumming showcase.
France, a veteran drummer on the U.K. jazz scene who played in the
cooperative group First House and the big band Loose Tubes during the
'80s and later worked with Iain Bellamy and Django Bates in the '90s,
has performed and recorded with some of the world's great musicians
including Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland, Arild
Andersen, Ralph Towner and Marc Johnson. Currently a Professor of Jazz
(Drums/Percussion) at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he applies
his considerable skills and musical touch to the kit in the more
open-ended environment of his Spin Marvel projects. "The use of openness
and space is a very important part of what we do," he says. "And
creating something from this place allows the musician to feel free and
uninhibited and move it in a direction they want to express. I have
known Nils for many years and was always hoping that an opportunity
would arise to somehow get him involved with Spin Marvel". Nils
commented, "To play with such wonderful gifted and open minded musicians
was a true pleasure".
Emre, a ubiquitous London session drummer and in-demand producer-programmer-engineer-remix artist, brings a visionary vibe to this latest project. "Infolding
was my first time working with Spin Marvel," he says. "I was a huge fan
of the earlier records and was hugely excited to get involved. It's a
very honest record despite the heavy processing. It's all live takes
with no edits or overdubs.
Infolding
began as a single day of live recording with France, Molvaer, Harries
and Evensen before Emre came onboard. "It was recorded live in a four
hour session for the BBC," explains France. "Sometime after the
recording I sat and listened to the takes and selected the performances
to form a programme to fit the BBC R3 running time. We were all very
happy with the session and how the music was sounding so I forwarded the
master files to producer Emre Ramazanoglu, who then worked with the
music and produced it for us.
"Martin
asked if I would be interested in trying to take the sound on from
where it had got to at the end of this session," says Emre. "We didn't
really plan this next stage at all but it was understood that we both
wanted to keep the unedited live takes and bring out the intensity of
the performance as much as possible. I spent a few hours with Martin and
Tim on the first mix to check that they were into the approach I was
taking and then I mixed the rest myself, trying to establish a coherent
atmosphere for the record whilst letting the music and performances lead
the way."
Emre explains his modus operandi on Infolding:
"I tend to mold my mixing style to the project at hand and on this one I
just was led to that kind of dramatic, spacey sound by immersing myself
in the mix and creating as much of a performance there as I could. I
mixed these tracks really quite intensely and stuck with my first
reaction and the decisions that I made from it. I intensively used
convolution processing to get different instruments modulating each
other and a lot of interactive compression and effect processing to
shape the individual voices into larger, dense blocks of sound in which
the boundaries between the instruments are blurred perhaps.
A dynamic and inventive collaboration between potent musical forces, Infolding breaks all the rules while leading the way for new possibilities in music-making.
TRACKS:
1. Canonical
2. Tuesday's Blues
3. Two Hill Town
4. Leap Second
5. Same Hand Swiss Double Pug
6. Minus Two
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