Time Is A Blind Guide - Off Stillness Thomas Strønen

• 1 Memories of Paul 05:08
• 2 Season 06:31
• 3 Fall 07:18
• 4 Tuesday 03:23
• 5 Cubism 04:06
• 6 Dismissed 06:47
• 7 In Awe of Stillness 07:52
• Total Runtime 41:05

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Bei Time Is A Blind Guide kommt eine seltene akustische Alchemie zum Tragen. Personelle Veränderungen haben den musikalischen Charakter des Ensembles des norwegischen Schlagzeugers Thomas Strønen geprägt und mitbestimmt. So erleben wir auf der dritten Aufnahme der Gruppe erneut eine leichte Veränderung in der Besetzung, da Leo Svensson Sander Lucy Railton am Cello ersetzt. Die neue Stimme fügt sich nahtlos in den ruhig atmenden Ensembleklang ein, wobei die Pianistin Ayumi Tanaka sparsam, aber äußerst präzise und einfühlsam über die Tastatur navigiert und auf Strønens perkussive Schichtungen, Ole Morten Vågans elastische Kontrabassarbeit und Håkon Aases lyrisches Geigenspiel reagiert. Manchmal bilden die drei Streichinstrumente der Gruppe ein festes Trio, das in einen nachdenklichen Dialog mit Klavier und Percussion tritt. Meistens jedoch funktioniert der Puls der Gruppe als Ganzes, wobei jedes Instrument dynamisch in den Vordergrund und wieder in den Hintergrund treten kann, eingefangen in der bekannten Akustik des Rainbow Studios. Das Album, das 2021 im Rainbow Studio in Oslo aufgenommen und 2024 in München abgemischt wurde, wurde von Manfred Eicher produziert.

Thomas Strønen, Schlagzeug
Ayumi Tanaka, Klavier
Håkon Aase, Violine
Leo Svensson Sander, Violoncello
Ole Morten Vågan, Kontrabass

Thomas Strønen
graduated from the Music Conservatory of Trondheim, Norway in 1999 after six years of studying jazz and composition. Since his student days he has been involved with improvised music in different contexts

He is one of Norway´s most prolific drummers, known from his involvement with Food (with Iain Ballamy), Humcrush (with Ståle Storløkken), Parish (with Bobo Stenso), Pohlitz (solo), Maria Kannegaard Trio and others, where he has often also taken on the role of writer and arranger and sometimes producer.

Strønen is a very interactive musician who likes to be involved in different musical forms and he has the ability of creating structures and textures to generate unexpected results. He is a melodic type of drummer who focuses on large forms, sounds and communication, playing both acoustic music and a set up with live electronics such as samplers and sound effects. Today Strønen has a solo record deal on the leading electronic music label Rune Grammofon, and also with his band Parish, on German label ECM.

As a composer, Strønen has contributed (either as main or co-composer) on almost all of his released records so far, more then thirty-five altogether. He has also contributed on several commissioned works for festivals (e.g. the Bath and Cheltenham Jazz festival and Ultima comptemporary music festival) and radio. (e.g. the BBC, NRK, Deutsche Rundfunk, Swedish Radio, among others).

He has played with musicians such as Bobo Stenson (S), Iain Ballamy (UK), Tomasz Stanko (PL), Evan Parker (UK), Tim Harries (UK), Bill McHenry (USA), Lars Danielsson (S), David Tronzo (USA), Koichi Makigami (JP), Ernst Reijseger (NL), Chris Batchelor (UK), Eric Vloeimans (NL), Mattias Ståhl (S), Joakim Milder (S), Fredrik Ljungkvist (S), Christian Spering (S), David Stackenas (S), Staffan Svendsson (S), Joe Williamson (Can), Francois Houle (Can), Martin Kuchen (S), Magnus Lindgren (S), Phil Bancroft (UK), Tunji Bejer (GE), Ståle Storløkken, Bjørnar Andresen, Vidar Johansen, Knut Reiersrud, Iver Kleive, Silje Nergaard, Tore Brunborg, Christian Wallumrød, Trygve Seim, Arve Henriksen, Stian Carstensen, Cikada, and others.

Thomas has toured Europe, Asia and Canada during the last few years with the bands mentioned above, and also with Ståhls Blå (with Swedish musicians Joakim Milder, Filip Augustson and Mattias Ståhl), Phil Bancroft Quartet (with British musicians Mike Walker, Steve Watts) and Maria Kannegaard trio (comprising Ole Morten Vågan). His festival appearances include Moldejazz, Oslo Jazzfestival, Ungjazz, Maijazz, Bylarm, Vossajazz, Nattjazz, Soddjazz, Trondheim Jazzfestival, Kongsberg Jazz, Dølajazz, Montreal Jazzfestival (Can), Vancouver Jazzfestival (Can), Winnipeg Jazzfestival Can), Edmonton Jazzfestival (Can), Toronto Jazzfestival (Can), Victoria Jazzfestival (Can), Ottawa Jazzfestival (Can), Calgary Jazzfestival (Can), Birningham Jazzfestival (UK), Cheltenham Jazzfestival (UK), Bath Jazzfestival (UK), Brighton Jazzfestival (UK), Edinburgh Jazzfestival (GB), Largs Jazzfestival (GB), Exeter Jazzfestival (UK), Leeds Jazzfestival (UK), Leverkusen Jazzfestival (Ty), Musik Triennale Köln (Ty), Aalen Jazztage (Ty), Heidelberg Jazzfestival (Ty), Beyreuth World Music Festival (Ty), København Jazzfestival (DK), Umeå - Stockholm-, Malmö- og Göteborg Jazzfestival (S), Expo (Jp) and others.

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