Ketil Bjornstad – La Notte (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Ketil Bjornstad – La Notte (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:50 minutes | 590 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

A classically trained jazz pianist with a bent toward avant-garde improvised music, Ketil Bjørnstad is a well-known musician and writer in Europe. With his cerebral, atmospheric style that belies a palpable inner passion and an inclination toward genre-crossing compositions, Bjørnstad helped develop and popularize the “European jazz” aesthetic…

Commissioned by the Molde International Jazz Festival and recorded live at the Norwegian festival in 2010, “La notte” is a salute to Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, whom Ketil Bjørnstad counts amongst his formative influences. “At the same time that I discovered what jazz could be, after listening to Miles Davis’ In A Silent Way, I also saw the films by Godard, Bresson and Antonioni. Perhaps it was the slow, rhythmic authority in the films by Michelangelo Antonioni that made me think of music… As long as visual art creates music in our minds, and music creates pictures and visual expressions with the same intensity, the two are deeply and profoundly interdependent”. This album, then, can be considered “the soundtrack to an inner film”, in which Antonioni’s images and atmospheres are translated and transformed through personal moods and memories. For the Molde concert, Bjørnstad convened a special Norwegian-Danish-German-British band of musicians, old and new friends closely associated with ECM. The concert was rapturously received by the media, and described as an “absolutely stunning performance”.
– Review by All About Jazz

Tracklist:
1. Ketil Bjørnstad – La Notte, Pt. 1 (06:54)
2. Ketil Bjørnstad – La Notte, Pt. 2 (08:24)
3. Ketil Bjørnstad – La Notte, Pt. 3 (04:39)
4. Ketil Bjørnstad – La Notte, Pt. 4 (05:28)
5. Ketil Bjørnstad – La Notte, Pt. 5 (08:33)
6. Ketil Bjørnstad – La Notte, Pt. 6 (06:44)
7. Ketil Bjørnstad – La Notte, Pt. 7 (07:05)
8. Ketil Bjørnstad – La Notte, Pt. 8 (07:00)

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