Recorded at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg May 2021.

Composition by Jakob Glans.

www.jakobglans.com

Skin(n) - 5 timpanists on 4 timpani - the Percussion Ensemble of the Academy of Music and Drama

Commissioned, recorded and premiered by Oslo based KRÆKK.

Oslo Hardcore Vol. I - KRÆKK

Performed by flutist Alessandra Rombolà.
https://www.alessandrarombola.com

Audio engineer: Michal Sykora.

Premiered at Grusomhetens Teater in Oslo, January 20223.

offFlute (flute and tape)

00:00 Gluttony
01:03 Sloth
02:04 Lust
03:31 Pride
04:43 Wrath
05:52 Envy
07:00 Greed
07:58 Death
08:20 Judgement
09:40 Hell
10:40 Heaven

Performed by Ragna Rian, Katja Wieck, Yauheniya Mazynskaya and Maria Quevedo. Premiered at ny-Musikk Oslo, 2023.

The 7 Deadly Sins And The 4 Last Things (string-quartet)

Life Is A Fucking Party But There Is Nothing To Celebrate - Drew Joseph Holser (bari-sax)

Program piece for a small orchestra. Played by the Toneheim Symfoniorkester of 2017. The piece is written about the Moscow metrostop of the same name after a trip I took to Moscow in 2017.

Ботанический Сад Метро

GBG Hardcore Vol. 3 - haradrim

JAPAN

Covid - 19 Fuga I

Covid - 19 Koral

Covid - 19 Passacaglia

Covid - 19 Tintinnabuli

Covid - 19 Etude For Noise Synth

Covid - 19 Fuga II

Covid - 19 Skrik

Covid - 19 Plainsong

Covid - 19 Canon

Covid - 19 65473

Covid - 19 Fantasia

Covid - 19 Alap

Covid - 19 Erna informerer

Covid - 19 Russelåt

Covid - 19 中国

Covid - 19 Waltz

Covid - 19 Polski lektor

Covid - 19 Rock N Roll Music

Covid - 19 Men.mp3

Covid - 19 Remix

Covid - 19 Acceptance

Written for and performed by Astri Alise Rødland.

Dagens komponister skriver bare dritt

Composition/arrangement: Jakob Thonander Glans

Band:

Alto saxophone: Thomas Jäderlund
Voice I: Sara Aldén
Voice II: Maja Kirchhoff
Guitar: Jonatan Stirner
Piano I:  August Björn
Piano II: Hampus Torarp
Bass I: Simon Rangstedt
Bass II:  Boel Mogensen
Drums: Per Eriksson

Program notes:

Since the age of 14 I have had an on-going love/hate relationship with jazz music. Around that age I started studying jazz-guitar and kept studying it until the age of 19. During many of those years I had a dream of becoming a professional jazz-guitarist, a dream I never achieved. Partly because I didn't practice well enough, but mainly because I never truly understood the genre. To me jazz is a genre full of contrasting elements. It is completely free, but also painfully strict. It is part rebellion, part absolute conformity. It is the coolest musical genre in the world, but also somehow the lamest. The idea behind the piece JÆZZ was to finally be able to tackle the genre completely on my own terms. JÆZZ is part celebration, part parody and part something in between the two of a genre of music I love but never managed to understand. 

Quotations:  

JÆZZ features a large number of quotations - respectfully stolen from a large number of honorable people.

The musical quotations are:
 
Blue in green - Miles Davis (1959)
My romance - Richard Rodgers (1935)
Blue skies - Irvin Berlin (1926)
All blues - Miles Davis (1959)
GIant steps - John Coltrane (1960)
Donna Lee - Charlie Parker (1947)
Beautiful love - Viktor Young (1931)
Fly me to the moon - Bart Howard (1954)
Minor swing - Django Reinhardt (1937)
Mr PC - John Coltrane (1959)
The red one - Pat Metheny (1994)
Blue train - John Coltrane (1957)
Darn that dream - Van Heuten (1939)
Take 5 - Paul Desmond (1959)
Footprints - Wayne Shorter (1967)
So what - Miles Davis (1959)
Karl Bertil Jonssons Julafton - Gunnar Svensson (1975)
In a sentimental mood - Duke Ellington (1935)
Moon river - Henry Mancini  (1961)
La vie en rose - Edith Piaf (1947)
Life is a fucking party - Jakob Glans (2018)

Text quotations from:

Daniel Handler, Vera Nazarian, Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Rakim, Jerry Roll Morton, Ginger Baker, Gregory Porter, Gerry Mulligan, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Wes Montgomery, Esperanza Spalding, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Toots Thieleman and Jon Stewart.

Recorded at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg, Sweden.

JÆZZ

intro for typewriter and instrument (Performed by SLEDGE DUO)

Everything is gonna be okay. Alt blir bra. Rock over London, Rock on Chicago - Coop litt ditt. Från oss alla till er alla en riktigt god jul. Dziękuję bardzo panstwo. Thank you for coming to the concert, have a safe trip home. You can go home but you cant sleep here. Takk. Ура товарищи. 谢谢你的聆听

Based in Scandinavia and Poland (b. 1998)

Jakob Thonander Glans

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