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Brolt | 
 enlarge | Artist: Scorch Trio
Label: Rune Grammofon
Category: Music
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 543590
Media: LP Record
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 12.2 x 0.4
EAN: 7033662030743
ASIN: B0017R5T1A
Release Date: May 27, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Olstra | | • | Basjen | | • | Hys | | • | Gaba | | • | Graps | | • | Bluring |
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Album Description
The vinyl has 3 extra tracks not on the CD. This is the third full-length release from New York's free-spirited power trio, Scorch Trio: Raoul Bj"rkenheim (electric guitar), Ingebrigt H†ker Flaten (electric bass and electronics), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums and percussion). As with their previous albums Scorch Trio and Luggumt, Brolt is an old school analog recording -- the band set up in one room, instruments and amps miked with vintage microphones, playing live and recording to analog multi-track tape with no overdubs and editing and then mixing down to quarter-inch analog tape. There's a slightly different vibe to Brolt than that of its predecessors, maybe caused by the change of studio or the fact that they specifically set out to make it more of an ensemble recording where all instruments are treated equally. They went into the studio straight after a short, but very hectic tour of Europe and Japan, which may explain the more loose, live feel of many of the tracks. Bj"rkenheim was raised on Hendrix, Zappa and rock music before he discovered Miles, Coltrane, Mingus and Eric Dolphy. He has written film scores and orchestral music and recorded with Bill Laswell, Henry Kaiser, Jah Wobble, Peter Erskine, Paul Schtze, Mats Gustafsson and others. H†ker Flaten is a member of The Thing, Atomic, School Days and Free Fall and has his own quintet. He has played with Edvard Vesala, Krakatau and Tony Oxley and many others. Nilssen-Love is the most profiled player on the Norwegian jazz scene. A member of The Thing, School Days, Frode Gjerstad Trio, Atomic and several others, the two most important things for him are energy and creative freedom -- both vital ingredients in the Scorch Trio musical vocabulary.
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Charred guitar and other singe-alongs June 5, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A power trio is certainly an unusual lineup for Euro free jazz. There's no braying, bleating saxophone in sight, no punishing piano, so the free-averse would be advised to take another look. There's something remarkably accessible about this Nordic mixture that I suspect will appeal to many listeners who don't have any ear at all for the avant-garde. In addition, Scorch is not generally in that anarchically improvisatory place that sounds to many people like pure chaos. Much of Bjorkenheim's playing seems rooted in a recognizable rock tradition; he's hardly bailing on tonality like David Bailey. Indeed, Scorch may well appeal to Nels Cline, Vernon Reid, David Torn, Robert Fripp and James Blood Ulmer fans, for instance, not to mention Mahavishnu-era McLaughlinites or any adventurous soul who's into Hendrix or the wilder side of Neil Young.
The sweet-toned Bjorkenheim uses effects (and sometimes a bow) without ever getting the least bit grating; bassist Haaker Flaten, who sounds at times a bit like a growling lion, flattens my haaker throughout, particularly on the frenetic Graps; and the drumming is appropriately all over the place, yet very fluid and never overbearing. I don't know what Brolt means, but when these guys get going, it feels like my head has been brolted to the wall. Nice. But at 51 minutes, the record is too damn short. The Rune Grammofon site offers a two-disc vinyl limited edition of Brolt with another 33 minutes of music. I don't want to end this review on sour Graps, but come on, guys, most of that would fit on one CD.
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