This album was selected one of the top ten Norwegian jazz releases in 2007, by national newspaper Dagsavisen, and has received very good reviews from critics both in Norway and internationally. Time Jungle got extensive national media attention, interviews and radio play in Norway. And the band is also represented with one song on the Norwegian sampler JazzCD.no 3rd set.
“It is an album with a freshness and originality that grabbed hold of me after just a few bars” Dagsavisen
“A promising debut record where Seim plays with a sound that ranges from pure classical to rough, with glowing intensity in fascinating, extended melodic lines” Dagbladet
“This is a surprising and beautiful album, and Seim is a musician who claims a solid place in the landscape of modern jazz” Jazznytt
“The original compositions are turned and twisted in all directions and the album is constantly exciting to listen to (…) very fun and playful, not to mention cool” Utropia
“The music is constantly transforming through shifting colours, strange dialogues and explosive, tight themes.” Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK)
Producer and guest artist on the album is New-York sax player Andrew D’Angelo.The result of this collaboration is an album of slow-burn jazz, where the extreme blowouts often associated with the jazz genre are toned down and mixed with slow, friendly moods, strange but playful melodies, fragile and honest conversations and extended melodic development.
Liner notes by Marilyn Crispell: “The compositions and the playing on this CD are wonderful. I felt like I was being taken on a journey. Sometimes I had impressions of New Orleans, the Caribbean, Arabia, northern tundras, and even Mongolia.(…)It\'s a beautiful and impressive CD. Thanks, Gunhild!”
BIOS
Gunhild Seim
Trumpet player/composer based in Stavanger, Norway. After spending years as a sideman in different styles, she wanted to speak with her own voice, which resulted in the formation of the band Time Jungle. In 2007 she released her debut cd with Time Jungle, which was selected one of top ten norwegian jazz releases in 2007 by a major norwegian newspaper. Gunhild also makes music for large jazz-ensembles, some of which has been performed at different jazz festivals in Norway and internationally. In 2005 she was one of the founders of the 12-piece ensemble The Kitchen Orchestra (www.kitchenorchestra.no), consisting of professional classical and jazz musicians working with conducted collective improvisation. This ensemble has since been able to invite and perform with several internationally acclaimed artists: danish composer/free jazz musician Lotte Anker (Copenhagen Art Ensemble) and british free impro-legend Steve Beresford (London Improviser\'s Orchestra).
Andrew d’Angelo
(Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Computer, Composition) has lived in Brooklyn, New York since 1986 but is a Seattle native. He toured the US this Fall with his own trio, which includes Norwegian musicians Anders Hana and Morten Olsen. That trio recorded their 3rd cd (August 2004) which is currently out on the Norwegian based label Jazzaway. After their tour of the states this fall this same trio, under the name of MORTHANA, recorded their 4th cd for a Japanese based label called Doubtmusic, which will be released spring 2005.
He is also releasing a solo bass clarinet cd including works by himself, Michael Rose, Stephan Larose, and Nissim Schaul.
He also works and tours with the great Matt Wilson Quartet. A group which he has performed with for the last 8 years. They have four cds available on the Palmetto label.
In November 2004, he was invited to Portugal for two weeks to perform 9 concerts and 6 days of workshops at the GUIMARES Jazz Festival with the Matt Wilson Quartet. Last winter he was also in St. Petersburg, Russia to create an art installation with Kitchen Motors of Iceland. He was also busy this past year performing, recording and touring with the trio TYFT with Jim Black and Hilmar Jensson. They played at the Iceland Jazz festival in November 2004 and also toured the midwestern United States, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. TYFT just released their second cd, Ditty Blei (Songlines). Mr. d\'Angelo has performed workshops at several Universities, Colleges, and Conservatories: Amsterdam Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, FIH Music College Reykjavik, University of Northern Illinois, Wichita State University, George Washington University, the University of Rhode Island, Trondheim Musikhogskola, Kungliga Musikhogskolan i Stockholm, Göteborg Musikhogskola, Göteborg Musikhogskola, Rytmisk Conservatorium in Copenhagen, Odense Musikhogskola, Wichita State University, North Texas State University, Nordic Heritage Museum of Ballard. Mr. d\'Angelo also writes music for big band, chamber groups, string orchestra, soloists, and has recently performed some of his larger compositions in Iceland, throughout the US, Europe, and Norway. He has worked with what seems like a vast array of fantastic artists and musicians: Trevor Dunn, Herb Robertson, Joel Frahm, Cuong Vu, Ed Schuller, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Dewey Redman, Lee Konitz, Bobby Previte, Jamie Saft, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson, Bill McHenry, Ben Monder, Mark Dresser, Ben Street, Laurie Frink, and others. Andrew also likes to paint and make light sculptures.
John Lilja: bass player, with a bachelor degree in Jazz Composition from Berklee college of Music. He shows up on record with Frode Gjerstad, Thomas Dybdahl and balkan-punk trio Jackman, among others. He has toured several european festivals in Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Spitsbergen, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Hungary with bands such as Jackman og Noxakt, and performed with artists such as Arve Henriksen, Ole Paus, David Garibaldi, Kjetil Møster, Anders Hana and Kitchen Orchestra. He also has composed original music for the Norwegian Broadcasting Company, finnish bigband Pophorn and dutch orchestra Metropole Orkest.
Dag Magnus Narvesen: Drummer, who also plays with the band Sasquatch and piano trio Væike Pæike. He has performed with a number of other artists such as Andrew d’Angelo, Nils Henrik Asheim, Hanitra Rasoanaivo, Virgo Sillamaa, Ove Hetland and Wayne Brasel. He is also a member of much amentioned Kitchen Orchestra. Dag Magnus has performed at Norwegian festivals Maijazz, Osøren Jazz og Bluesfestival and Jazz Incubator, plus Aberdeen Jazz Festival and Aberdeen Youth Festival in Scotland, and Tudengijazz in Estland. He finished his bachelor’s degree in jazz at the University of Stavanger, spring 2006, where he studied with Per Oddvar Johansen og Stein Inge Brækhus.
Allan Vigre: Norwegian guitarist who has been a professional performer for many years, with experience in many genres. For instance he played 10 years for the band Dollie De Luxe who has been a very well known popband in Norway, before settling in his hometown of Stavanger. In recent years he has specialized in noise and sound effects on the guitar. He also has started his own studio AcousDig Lydstudio og Musikkproduksjon DA. He studied music at the University of Oslo and sound engineering the University of Stavanger.
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