12/6 (木) BALLROGG JAPAN TOUR 2012
Ballrogg began life as a duo: somewhere between Paul Bley and Eric Dolphy, on the one hand, and Morton Feldman on the other. The arrival of guitarist Ivar Grydeland (of the act Huntsville, formerly on Rune Grammofon but now also signed to Hubro) introduces a hint of Americana – also suggested in the album title and in “Swedish Country”, the opening track. It might sound a strange mix, but bassist Roger Arntzen is also a member of In The Country, who themselves combine worship of Bley and Feldman with an equal love of Ryan Adams. Country music might be the home of the song, but there´s no singing here; it´s country on clarinet, less Taylor Swift than Nels Cline or BJ Cole. And Americana is only one influence at play: at other times, the record calls to mind neo-classical acts like Clogs, Yann Tiersen, Hauschka and Philip Jeck. This is panoramic music, restrained and expansive: maybe it doesn´t matter if the landscape it overlooks is coated in sand or in ice.
– Jazzwise, Marcus O´Dair (UK)
日時：2012年12月6日 (木) open 19:30 start 20:00
会場：旧グッゲンハイム邸（JR/ 山陽塩屋駅徒歩5分）
〒655-0872 神戸市垂水区塩屋町3丁目5-17
料金：予約・当日共に 2,500円
主催：BALLROGG
共催：塩屋音楽会
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Klaus Ellerhusen Holm (sax, clar) leads his own group Klaus Holm Kollektif, who was awarded “Yong Nordic Jazzcomets 2003”. He plays free-improvised music with the Norwegian trio Murmur and has worked with international artists such as Raymond Strid, Axel Dörner, Jim Denley, Mattias Ståhl, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Ingar Zach, Sture Ericson and Frode Gjerstad, and has done tours on festivals and jazzclubs in several countries in both Europe, America and Asia. The last years he has also composed music for various chamber music settings and also music for film.
Roger Arntzen (double bass) is known from the piano trio In The Country, who was awarded “Young Jazz Musicians Of The Year 2004” in Norway. The trio has released four albums on the Norwegian cult-label Rune Grammofon to much acclaim. He is a regular together with Shining-leader Jørgen Munkeby with the noise-rock-jazz-quartet Chrome Hill and has teamed up with Chrome Hill-drummer Torstein Lofthus as two thirds of Håvard Stubø Trio. He has also worked with downtown NYC icon Marc Ribot, Bob Hoffnar, BJ Cole, Neil Metcalfe, Terry Day, John Russell, Sidsel Endresen, Susanna Wallumrød, Frida Ånnevik and Stian Carstensen. Arntzen has performed at festivals and clubs in Scandinavia, Europe, USA, Canada, Japan, China, Taiwan, Russia, Malaysia and Mongolia.
Ivar Grydeland (guitar, pedal steel guitar) has been a musician and a composer for a decade. He has been touring and recording with his own bands, ad hoc projects and project based ensembles at big festivals and clubs in Norway, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, Germany, France, Canada, USA, Greece, Argentina, Spain, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and Japan. Grydeland is currently most frequently playing with the quartet Dans Les Arbres (Wallumrød, Zach, Charles, Grydeland), who released their debut album on ECM in April 2008. He´s also active with the trio Huntsville (two releases on Rune Grammofon) and has a key role as a guitarist and pedal steel player with the Norwegian singer Hanne Hukkelberg. Grydeland plays his acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo and pedal steel guitar often in the direction of Country & Western, with a facination for streching the possibilities in the sound quality itself in his instruments.
