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In the '70s and '80s, bassist Andersen made a number of albums for ECM. I remember then liking one in particular -- Green Shading into Blue -- though I might feel differently if I heard it today. This music was written to accompany a play based on the 1928 Nobel Prize-winning novel of the same name, and it does indeed sound like incidental music. Andersen's pastoral, synthesizer and reverb-laden jazz/fusion is evocative, but hardly provocative, which means that it probably served its original purpose well. Asking it to stand alone as a work unto itself is unfair to the composer's intent (though I doubt the record was put out against his will). Listen to this music without referring to the personnel listings, and you'll swear the saxophonist is Jan Garbarek. It's not -- just an amazingly life-like facsimile. Pretty music, but it's charms are ephemeral and ultimately negligible.
© Chris Kelsey /TiVo
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Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Paolo Vinaccia, Composer - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Reidar Skår, Composer - Tore Brunborg, Composer - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Reidar Skår, Arranger - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Reidar Skår, MusicArranger - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Paolo Vinaccia, Composer - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Reidar Skår, Composer - Tore Brunborg, Composer - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Reidar Skår, Arranger - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Paolo Vinaccia, Composer - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Reidar Skår, Composer - Tore Brunborg, Composer - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist, MusicArranger - Tore Brunborg, MusicArranger - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Paolo Vinaccia, Composer - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Reidar Skår, Composer - Tore Brunborg, Composer - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Engineer - Erik Hillestad, Producer - Alf Christian Hvidsteen, SoundRecordist - Arild Andersen, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Cutting Room, Stockholm, MasteringEngineer
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Album review
In the '70s and '80s, bassist Andersen made a number of albums for ECM. I remember then liking one in particular -- Green Shading into Blue -- though I might feel differently if I heard it today. This music was written to accompany a play based on the 1928 Nobel Prize-winning novel of the same name, and it does indeed sound like incidental music. Andersen's pastoral, synthesizer and reverb-laden jazz/fusion is evocative, but hardly provocative, which means that it probably served its original purpose well. Asking it to stand alone as a work unto itself is unfair to the composer's intent (though I doubt the record was put out against his will). Listen to this music without referring to the personnel listings, and you'll swear the saxophonist is Jan Garbarek. It's not -- just an amazingly life-like facsimile. Pretty music, but it's charms are ephemeral and ultimately negligible.
© Chris Kelsey /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:56
- Main artists: Arild Andersen
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Kirkelig Kulturverksted
- Genre: Jazz
(C) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (P) 1995 Kirkelig Kulturverksted
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