Ola Kvernberg – Steamdome (2017) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Ola Kvernberg – Steamdome (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:45 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Fusion
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Three years after releasing the masterpiece The Mechanical Fair, Ola Kvernberg returns with a new magnificent, imaginative, rhythmic deluge of an album: Steamdome. The title of Kvernberg’s latest project was not chosen at random. Steamdome presents thoroughly percussive music. It lunges brutally ahead like a runaway train. As enthusiastic, surrealistic and swelling as Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns.

“Steamdome is both more limitless and more brazen than my previous projects. The time was ripe to wield the broadest paintbrush and stir up the biggest emotions with this band,” says Ola. “Maybe a lot of what I have done before appealed to a dedicated audience of listeners, but Steamdome is to a much greater degree a physical experience.”Steamdome changes track, and barrels along into a landscape where rhythmical patterns, beat and groove are the dominant elements. The Mechanical Fair was described as belonging to a “mutton western” genre, and this description is, if anything, even more appropriate now. With three of the country’s most innovative drummers on board, the bows, strings and resin have been replaced by sticks, metal and a variety of drums. Steamdome is seething with visual energy. The music winds its way through steep cliffs, far-ranging vistas, sharp curves, sheer drops and nocturnal landscapes where the only anchoring point is the suggestive rhythm of a train that never stops.

Ola Kvernberg has hand-picked a hard-hitting team of musicians for Steamdome. The locomotive is propelled by drummer Erik Nylander (Mechanical Fair, Liarbird), Børge Fjordheim (Sivert Høyem, Monical Heldal) and Hans Hulbækmo (Broen, Atomic, Moskus) along with bassist Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen (Elephant9, Band of Gold). In addition to Ola Kvernberg himself on fiddle, viola, etc., the music is kept at the boiling point by guitarist and jack-of-all-trades Øyvind Blomstrøm (El Cuero, Odd Nordstoga) and the innovative organist Daniel Buner Formo (Trondheim Jazzorkester).

Tracklist:

1-01. Ola Kvernberg – Prologue (03:37)
1-02. Ola Kvernberg – And Now (07:16)
1-03. Ola Kvernberg – Caterpillar (08:43)
1-04. Ola Kvernberg – Black Lemon (05:38)
1-05. Ola Kvernberg – Go Up (08:33)
1-06. Ola Kvernberg – Above the Dance, Pt. 1 (02:47)
1-07. Ola Kvernberg – Above the Dance, Pt. 2 (03:32)
1-08. Ola Kvernberg – Through the Mantle (04:34)
1-09. Ola Kvernberg – Credits (06:00)

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