Rymden and Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra (Kork): Rymden + Kork

Editor's Choice

Rating: ★★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

with the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra (Kork)
Dan Berglund (b)
Lars Erik Gudim
Magnus Öström (d, elec)
Bugge Wesseltoft (p, ky)

Label:

Jazzland

April/2023

Media Format:

CD, DL

Catalogue Number:

3779512

RecordDate:

Rec. 11 February 2022

This is the third Rymden album after their debut, Reflections & Oddysseys, and follow-up Space Sailors plus some seven EPs and singles (all on Bugge's Bandcamp page). In sheer scope and ambition alone, Rymden + Kork counts as the trio's best to date. It's a collaboration with the 43-piece Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra, who like to be known by the less pretentious name of Kork. Since the orchestra's inception some 75 years ago interpreting the classical repertoire, they have spread their wings and delved into pop, rock, and jazz and have been heard worldwide through their participation in the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert and the Eurovision Song Contests of 1986 and 1996. Here, their shifting densities, tone colours and a remarkable dynamic control moving from carefully sculpted minimalism to thickly layered maximalism provide a setting for Rymden that far from inhibiting their free-flowing creativity, encourages it. The orchestra artfully congregate around the moods and emotions Rymden inspire, creating often dramatic aural imagery that individually and collectively shine. Collaborations such as this don't exactly happen every day in Scandinavian jazz, but when they do they're often memorable – witness 2013's Jaga Jazzist Live with Britten Sinfonia or EST Symphony from 2016 with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, that just happens to also feature Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström.

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