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More reviews and international airplay!

albatrosh.com — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:49:49 +0000

After an international release i December, reviews of our latest, Yonkers, shows up around the world. From what we´ve heard, uur music is also played at major radio stations both in Europe and USA. BBC as well! We´re also planning a lot of touring in 2012, and we´re looking forward to play more concerts outside Norway.

Here´s a couple of new reviews!

THE JAZZ BREAKFAST

“Track three, Major Little, is a good place to start, showing how neatly the pair have melded European and American jazz influences into a fresh material. Coral Fox is possibly the loveliest – a really dreamy ebb and flow of timbral richness, with melodic hints of an American songbook classic that I am still trying to identify.”

JAZZ ON BLOG

“Der so entstehende Eindruck einer weiten Landschaft ist dabei ein glücklicher Nebeneffekt. „Yonkers“ ist das Ergebnis einer ebenso spannenden wie entspannten Studiosession, die zwei Musiker im Einklang mit sich selbst zeigt. Großartiges Ohrenkino aus Norwegen!”

ROCK A ROLLA (JAN 2012)

“The interplay between Dale on piano and Roligheten on sax is never less than perfectly intuitive, while always allowing for one or another to embark on flights of fancy. Perfect late-night jazz.”

Concerts in The Netherlands!

albatrosh.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:58:23 +0000

From 1st to 3rd of February we´re doing a short tour in The Netherlands. We´re traveling together with the great Mathias Eick 6tet, and doing concerts at:

01.02: Bimhuis, Amsterdam

01.02: Playing live on radio VPRO, Amsterdam

03.02: Paradox, Tilburg

We´re really looking forward to play in The Netherlands again, last time was at the North Sea Jazz festival back in 2010. Our latest album, Yonkers, was just released in The Netherlands, so we will for sure bring lots of CDs!

Spread the word, and welcome to Bimhuis and Paradox!

Review in The New York Times!

albatrosh.com — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:38:39 +0000

Today we received a notification about a stunning review in The New York Times! We were really excited, to say the least, that our album has reached the states. The album is actually recorded in New York as well, so the cycle is closed

To read it, click on this link, or read below.

Albatrosh

Seen from one angle, this pliable young Norwegian duo could be slotted squarely in the lineage of Keith Jarrett’s exalted work with Jan Garbarek in the 1970s: all the identifying traits are there, from the classical poise to the emotional ardor to the intimation of melodic caprice. But there’s more to Albatrosh — which is to say, the pianist Eyolf Dale and the saxophonist André Roligheten — than any sort of pigeonholing could allow. “Yonkers” (Rune Grammofon), the duo’s third album, is an outright joyride, full of sprightly intricacies (“Linedance”) and boppish contingencies (“Fifths”) and meditative spaces (“Central Park”). Mr. Roligheten has a brusque but appealing tone on tenor saxophone, and Mr. Dale extracts rich sonorities from the piano; their fundamentals are sound. But it’s their intuitive chemistry that lifts the album to another plane, raising hopes for the next go-round.

Great review in UNCUT

albatrosh.com — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:45:18 +0000

Great review of Yonkers in the major UK magazine, UNCUT! The review is to be published right after new years, but for your eyes only (ba-dam!), here´s a preview:

This is exuberant and occasionally unique playing – merry, vamping melodies get befuddled, hover on the edge of really swinging, and drift in and out of freer territory. Roligheten bashes out some percussive key-tapping and reed abuse to switch up the palette at times, just as fellow Scandos Håkon Kornstad or Mats Gustafsson might do. An emotionally complex, big-hearted set. 4/5 stars.
Uncut (UK)

“Yonkers” ranked in Top 3 Norwegian jazz albums 2011!

albatrosh.com — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:57:41 +0000

The major Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet awarded our latest album Yonkers as on of the Top 3 Norwegian jazz releases in 2011! Also, Eyolf Dale´s solo album “Hotel Interludes” was also on the list.

1. Ola Kvernberg – Liarbird

2. Albatrosh – Yonkers

3. Eyolf Dale – Hotel Interludes

Read the full article here.

Merry Christmas!

Yonkers reviewed in The Guardian!

albatrosh.com — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:38:26 +0000

Wow, our album just got reviewed in the major British newspaper, The Guardian! 4 out of 5 stars! John Fordham writes:

Albatrosh are the twentysomething Norwegian duo of pianist Eyolf Dale and saxophonistAndré Roligheten. Star composer Maria Schneider hailed their ”great interplay and amazing improvisation, effective and colourful compositions” when they won the Best Band prize at the North Sea festival in 2009, and this third album illustrates what she meant. Sometimes they operate in a subdued free-improv space populated with sly multiphonic sax sounds and tinkling piano, sometimes they are quirkily dynamic, and the balance between meticulous, integrated composition and improv freedom is imaginatively struck. Pieces such as Linedance and Pickup Truck rattle through fast, intertwined postbop melodies bristling with percussive sax blurts and cop-show piano rumbles, while slow features such as Central Park and Pannebrask explore deep, sax-ballad sighs or tone-bending meditations. Both players are formidable improvisers, but the quality of their compositions makes that task easier – it’s a combination of elements that suggests the sax/piano conversations of Julian Arguelles and John Taylor.

Gig at Unterfahrt!

albatrosh.com — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:52:26 +0000

Tomorrow, the 9th of December we´re playing at the great club Unterfahrt in Munich! Our show starts at 8pm, followed by Humcrush+Sidsel Endresen at 9.15pm. We´re bringing all of our CD´s as well.

We´re really looking forward to this!!

Welcome und wilkommen!

Great review in Bergens Tidende

albatrosh.com — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:49:06 +0000

“Yonkers” receives a great review in the major Norwegian newspaper, Bergens Tidende. Click at the picture below to read it in full.

Two more great reviews!

albatrosh.com — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:11:30 +0000

Check out these:

Tidningen Kulturen (Swedish)

Nordische Musik 5/6 (German)

We´ve gotten many great reviews of this album, check some of them out at the page “Press & Booking”.

Yonkers is now available in iTunes!

albatrosh.com — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:37:58 +0000

Hello folks,

Click on this link to review & buy to Yonkers in iTunes!