Havtorn Records is a independent record label with members from Malmö/Göteborg/Stockholm. It´s owned and operated by the musicians themselves and all profit goes back to each respective artist. Havtorn's main focus is music production, but arrangement of concerts and festivals is also in the scope of what we do.

info@havtornrecords.com

I document when possible. Especially from the music venue 5e in Copenhagen.

Joel Fabiansson - guitar
Donovan von Martens - bass
Måns Wikenmo - drums

Søren Gemmer (b. 1984)
Pianist and composer working as a band leader as well as a sideman. A healthy appetite for different musical expressions has led to work in modern and mainstream jazz, in free improvisation and in indie music as a synth/Wurlitzer player. The debut album AT FIRST (ILK) was released in 2013 and received widespread critical acclaim for its blend of modern jazz and a love and awe of late romantic and 20th century classical piano music. The upcoming release THE LARK (WhyPlayJazz RS028) presents an elaboration of the trademark melodicism displayed on the debut.

Bio
Born and raised near Aalborg in the Northern part of Denmark, Søren Gemmer by no means took to music early on. Being an avid personal computer enthusiast (when those where just getting personal) and an avid reader from an early age, Søren engaged in musical activity from a visual perspective, conceptualizing about music rather than paying any sort of attention by ear. Not until being caught by the allure of the rock drummer fantasy in local bands did the true emotional potential of music present itself to him. It is this duality of cognition and emotion, complexity and simplicity so to speak, and the challenge of balancing them that eventually drew Gemmer to become a musician. 

Since 2009 he has been living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently completing his Advanced Postgraduate Diploma specializing in adapting stylistical elements from 20th century composers Messiaen and Ligeti into modern jazz composition and improvisation. 

Collaborations and sideman appearences include live work with film maker, poet and national icon, Jørgen Leth, a raft of Danish jazz's 'Who's Who', Gilad Hekselman, Palle Mikkelborg, Thomas Agergaard and a couple of utterly coincidental, yet successful, appearences with the Danish Radio Big Band. He has studied with jazz pianists Jacob Christoffersen, Nikolaj Hess, and Anders Persson, improvisers Torben Snekkestad and Kresten Osgood, as well as renowned classical pianist and educator Anne Marie Fog.

Kaliber är ett ungt nyskapande jazzband med fokus på melodi och improvisation. Kompositionerna är skrivna av deltagarna i bandet, allting är arrangerat gemensamt i ett flöde av kreativitet. Musiken kan beskrivas som en berättelse genom popinfluenser och jazzimprovisation, där texterna på svenska har lika stort utrymme som den arrangerade tvåstämmigheten. Publiken slits mellan vemod och glädjefylld berusning. 

Kaliber:	
Hanna Söderqvist - Sång
Sebastian Hegedüs - Gitarr
Ylva Almcrantz - Piano
Joakim Lissmyr - Bas
Liam Amner - Trummor

'Nezelhorns' is a modern jazz quintet from Copenhagen, led by the Danish saxophonist Nana Pi. In spring 2013 they released their debut album “Nezelhorns in a an Elephant String” which has been described as “Swedish jazz with genuine darkness” by DN’s jazz reviewer Johannes Cornell. The unorthodox crew also creates a dark and massive sound that hits the air like cannonballs. The band plays original compositions with great emphasis on sound and improvisation that is guarantied not to leave you unmoved. 

“Nana Pi Aabo Larsen writes interesting songs, where she gives great freedom to the other musicians. The arrangements work very well, especially because they combine the instruments in an original way, for example trombone solo over bass and bass clarinet backgrounds. This gives the album an original expression, and when you have such a good trombonist as Hängsel in the band, it becomes interesting.”- Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts 2015.

“A very worth hearing record that is recommended!” - Jan Strand, OJ 2014.

Kristoffer Rostedt on drums
Johannes Vaht on bass
Petter Hängsel on trombone
Erik Kimestad on trumpet
Nana Pi on tenor saxophone

For more info: www.nezelhorns.com
Go to LISTEN to listen to our record.

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