TUNGEMÅL I + II

Mark Solborg Trio feat. Herb Robertson & Evan Parker

Mark Solborg: Electric & Acoustic Guitars 
Mats Eilertsen: Double Bass
Peter Bruun: Drums, Percussion & Kalimba
Herb Robertson: Trumpets, Voice, Kalimba & Pump Organ 
Evan Parker: Tenor & Soprano Saxophone, Kalimba & Gong

Rustle, blast, scratch and howl. The world is noisy (and a great place to live)… 
At Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2011 Danish guitarist and composer Mark Solborg invited the legendary British saxophonist and improviser Evan Parker to join his trio and the fabulous american trumpetplayer Herb Robertson. An unusual and unique meeting across borders and generations was at hand. The group played three exclusive concerts in Copenhagen, one at Århus International Jazzfestival and spent a day in the studio - documenting discoveries made during the concerts. What you hear on The Trees is a selection of what happened that day.

Solborg describes the project as an essential peak in his work with improvised music. The extreme collective awareness of all 5 players, and Parkers deeply rooted aproach, gives the music an almost symphonic caracter - like a walk through an arboretum (a botanical garden of trees). This music is not about oneway soliloquies but a conversation between equal musical landscape-architects. Listen carefully and you will find a curious world of views, light and tales within the sounds and shapes carefully molded by these master musicians.

British pianoplayer and composer par excellence Django Bates has added the very poetic linernotes on The Trees. The album is available digitally, as CD and on a beautiful 180g limited edition LP.

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Album info

Artist: Mark Solborg Trio 
feat. Herb Robertson & Evan Parker
Title: The Trees
Catalogue. no. : ILK199CD / ILK199LP
Label: ILK
Barcode: 5706274003796
Release date: February 7th, 2013

Tracks
1. The Whip 5:50
2. Hophornbeam 5:09
3. Dogwood 2:33
4. Skyrækker No. 1 3:32
5. Oak and The Alder 6:38
6. Skyrækker No. 2 2:04
7. Chestnut and the Woods 7:29
8. Apples, Apples 4:23
9. Dark Boat 4:50
10. Closure 5:18
Total time 47:54

All compositions by Solborg/Eilertsen/Bruun/Robertson/Parker
Except 4. and 6. by Solborg/Parker

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With 12 releases as leader or co. leader and performances at leading European jazzfestivals Solborg has established himself with clear defined imprints on the Danish and International Jazz- and Improv-scene. His production includes both composed and improvised music.

Besides Eillertsen, Parker & Robertson collaborators include Chris Speed, Hank Roberts, Paal Nilssen-Love, Francesco Bigoni, Marc Lohr, Lotte Anker, a.o. Solborgs work as guitarist and composer has recieved substantial international recognition.


Selected reviews:
New York City Jazz Record – Honorable Mentions 2013:
Mark Solborg Trio feat. Herb Robertson & Evan Parker: The Trees (ILK199CD/LP)

“Evan Parker’s circular soprano bubbles up like hot mud in a volcanic puddle or twitters like scratchy birdsong, while Herb Robertson’s loose-lipped, brassy gusts sound like a hyperventilating huntsman breaking the morning stillness. When Solborg turns to the electric guitar he’s capable of wafting mists or, on “Dogwood”, a harsh tangle of barbed wire....”

- Dan Spicer, The Wire, UK

"The Trees is the latest new perspective from which Mark Solborg looks at the world of improvisation, and confirms him as one of the most fervid and intriguing musicians on the European scene."
- Vincenzo Roggero - All about Jazz Italia

"So dunkel und mystisch das Cover, so vital und lichtklar die freien Jazz-Improvisationen des dänischen Bandprojektes "The Trees"... kein Stilbrei, kein Musikramsch, kein atonaler Müll, sondern die Suche nach einer freien, intelligenten Musik nach allen bekannten Mustern. "The Trees" scheint genau dieser Idee (in der nächsten Generation) zu sein."
-www.ragazzi-music.de

"...A high point in Danish Improjazz. The Trees is some of the best Solborg has produced. Music that has it’s own spirit and becomes a living organism, filled with wonder and joy.

My soul, could you wish for more ?"
- Niels Overgaard, Jazznyt.dk

Mark Solborg Trio feat. Robertson & Parker - The Trees

Contemporary Jazz

New Single Out! 
A first peak at the new Maniscalco/Bigoni/Solborg album, CANTO, out on ILK Music June 3rd.

The single "Under Weather" holds a short dense track by Solborg and is available for streaming on all platforms. https://orcd.co/under-weather

Francesco Bigoni  − Tenor & alto saxophone, clarinet 
Mark Solborg  − Guitars, devices & electronics 
Emanuele Maniscalco  − Rhodes, piano & keyboards

We have taken the music to new territories adding warm analogue keys and subtle electronics to the acoustic realm. Very exciting ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

The complete album hits the streets June 3rd in connection with concerts in Copenhagen June 7th at Klub Primi  and in Odense June 8th at Jazzhus Dexter.  

Join the spacewalks.. ♪( ´θ｀)ノ

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Maniscalco/Bigoni/Solborg's general activities and the current album is supported by Statens Kunstfond , Koda, Dansk Musiker Forbund - DMF , JazzDanmark & Musikforlæggerne i Danmark.

Under Weather (Solborg)

RELEASE INFO
Artist: Mark Solborg
Title: BABEL
Release date: November 17 2023
Catalogue#: ILK348
Format: Vinyl & digital

In this next adventure solborg's music is handled by a wonderful and starry gathering of some of scandinavia's finest musicians. 
18 additional interviewed voices, speaking in multiple languages, are integrated into the rich textures of the music, creating a warm and unique garden of fables. 
Contemporary musical conversations like you’ve never heard it before.

Susana Santos Silva · trumpet & tape
Francesco Bigoni · clarinet & tape
Anders Banke · bass clarinet, clarinet, alto flute & tape
Mark Solborg · guitar & electronics
Simon Toldam · piano, keys & tape
Peter Bruun · drums, percussion & tape

BABEL was originally commissioned by KoncertKirken, Organ Sound Art Festival and Jazz i Trekanten, and premiered February 23rd and 24th 2022.

BABEL is released November 17th 2023, digitally and as a limited edition double vinyl with extended artwork.  
A single, FOLK, is out for streaming October 20th 2023.

Folk (Single Version)

Debutalbum on ILK - releasedate may 11th 2015.

Emanuele Maniscalco: Piano
Francesco Bigoni: Saxophone & clarinet
Mark Solborg: Guitar

 

Francesco (A) is italian - love takes him to Denmark in 2009. Emanuele (B) is italian as well - music takes him to Denmark in 2012. Mark (C) is danish - with deep latin roots.

A and C often play together. A and B already know each other well. C and B feel it natural to meet and set up this constellation. A, B and C enjoy playing concerts in small churches. Improvisation is a vital process for A, B and C.

What you are reading may not be too helpful for understanding the music they play. Then imagine a contemporary chamber ensemble with some dirt in it - a small choir where each voice raises from the ground.

A potentially-folk project. 



Blomme (Bigoni)

Godnatkoncerten Del I+V

Mark Solborg
TUNGEMÅL : Confluencia
Susana Santos Silva
Simon Toldam
Ingar Zach

Tracks:
1. Spoke
2. Southern Swag (6と5)
3. The Wires
4. Cantamos
5. Planes; inward
6. Janus - og sidste ord
7. Friction, bell, bump
8. Planes
9. Pitches and peace

Susana Santos Silva · trumpet
Mark Solborg . guitars & electronics
Simon Toldam · piano & keyboards
Ingar Zach · gran cassa, percussion and transducers (track 2., 3., 4., 6., 8.)

All songs by Mark Solborg, except 9. by Santos Silva, Toldam & Solborg.

Janus

New release from Mark Solborg 
feat. Herb Robertson & Evan Parker

Mark Solborg: Electric & Acoustic Guitars 
Mats Eilertsen: Double Bass
Peter Bruun: Drums, Percussion & Kalimba
Herb Robertson: Trumpets, Voice, Kalimba & Pump Organ 
Evan Parker: Tenor & Soprano Saxophone, Kalimba & Gong

Rustle, blast, scratch and howl. The world is noisy (and a great place to live)… 
At Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2011 Danish guitarist and composer Mark Solborg invited the legendary British saxophonist and improviser Evan Parker to join his trio and the fabulous american trumpetplayer Herb Robertson. An unusual and unique meeting across borders and generations was at hand. The group played three exclusive concerts in Copenhagen, one at Århus International Jazzfestival and spent a day in the studio - documenting discoveries made during the concerts. What you hear on The Trees is a selection of what happened that day. 

Solborg describes the project as an essential peak in his work with improvised music. The extreme collective awareness of all 5 players, and Parkers deeply rooted aproach, gives the music an almost symphonic caracter - like a walk through an arboretum (a botanical garden of trees). This music is not about oneway soliloquies but a conversation between equal musical landscape-architects. Listen carefully and you will find a curious world of views, light and tales within the sounds and shapes carefully molded by these master musicians.

British pianoplayer and composer par excellence Django Bates has added the very poetic linernotes on The Trees. The album is available digitally, as CD and on a beautiful 180g limited edition LP.

/////////////////////
Album info

Artist: Mark Solborg Trio 
feat. Herb Robertson & Evan Parker
Title: The Trees
Catalogue. no. : ILK199CD / ILK199LP
Label: ILK
Barcode: 5706274003796
Release date: February 7th, 2013

Tracks
1. The Whip 5:50
2. Hophornbeam 5:09
3. Dogwood 2:33
4. Skyrækker No. 1 3:32
5. Oak and The Alder 6:38
6. Skyrækker No. 2 2:04
7. Chestnut and the Woods 7:29
8. Apples, Apples 4:23
9. Dark Boat 4:50
10. Closure 5:18
Total time 47:54

All compositions by Solborg/Eilertsen/Bruun/Robertson/Parker
Except 4. and 6. by Solborg/Parker

///////////////////////////


With 12 releases as leader or co. leader and performances at leading European jazzfestivals  Solborg has established himself with clear defined imprints on the Danish and International Jazz- and Improv-scene. His production includes both composed and improvised music. 

Besides Eillertsen, Parker & Robertson collaborators include Chris Speed, Hank Roberts, Paal Nilssen-Love, Francesco Bigoni, Marc Lohr, Lotte Anker, a.o.  Solborgs work as guitarist and composer has recieved substantial international recognition.  

On his latest release with new original compositions for nonet, Solborg 4+4+1 :

Solborgs 4+4+1 nonet moves like a proud ship with all sails up into the wind, carrying a dear treasure delivered with great trust and loving care. It is set ashore on the pier of 
this years most exquisite Danish jazz - Bjarne Søltoft, Jazznytt, Norge

. ..stunningly built up from a palette of tonal colors. Solborg’s CD impresses. 
- Ken Waxman, New York City Jazz Record


The Whip (Solborg)

Closure

Mark Solborg - Guitar

All songs by Mark Solborg except "Filmprimadonna" by Mark Solborg and Simon Toldam.

The work of guitarist and composer Mark Solborg has been praised all over for it's originality and artistic integrity. With TUNGEMÅL Solborg is now releasing substantial unique material deriving from his investigations into a musical language for the electrified guitar in an acoustic chamber setting. The TUNGEMÅL research has been going on for several years and is documented through three albums holding core works with Solborgs approaches to the idiom of his guitar and the musical conversation in intimate recording settings. Solborg displays a diverse musical landscape with room for both simple intimate melodies played with extreme dynamic sensitivity and intricate textural work - yet colored with at certain subtle poetry. The two corresponding books contain written reflections and notes, scores, photos and links to video footage, spatial diagrams and graphic illustrations. All created by Solborg himself with the ambition of mapping the topography of the project and formulating it's poetics through multiple media. You could see the entire project as a collection or creative dictionary ment to be experienced by both specialist, student and layman. 

Volumes I & II contains works for solo guitar (Vol I) and duos + trio (vol II) with a selection of leading musicians on the Danish scene for contemporary jazz and improv: Lars Greve (Girls in Airports a.o.), Simon Toldam (award-winning pianist and composer) and Francesco Bigoni (reedman with Maria Faust and many others).

TUNGEMÅL I

05 - Nattesang

Mark Solborg - Guitar
+
Lars Greve - Clarinets, bass clarinet, soprano, tenor & baritone saxophones
Simon Toldam - Piano
Francesco Bigoni  - Tenor saxophone & clarinet


The work of guitarist and composer Mark Solborg has been praised all over for it's originality and artistic integrity. With TUNGEMÅL Solborg is now releasing substantial unique material deriving from his investigations into a musical language for the electrified guitar in an acoustic chamber setting. The TUNGEMÅL research has been going on for several years and is documented through three albums holding core works with Solborgs approaches to the idiom of his guitar and the musical conversation in intimate recording settings. Solborg displays a diverse musical landscape with room for both simple intimate melodies played with extreme dynamic sensitivity and intricate textural work - yet colored with at certain subtle poetry. The two corresponding books contain written reflections and notes, scores, photos and links to video footage, spatial diagrams and graphic illustrations. All created by Solborg himself with the ambition of mapping the topography of the project and formulating it's poetics through multiple media. You could see the entire project as a collection or creative dictionary ment to be experienced by both specialist, student and layman. 

Volumes I & II contains works for solo guitar (Vol I) and duos + trio (vol II) with a selection of leading musicians on the Danish scene for contemporary jazz and improv: Lars Greve (Girls in Airports a.o.), Simon Toldam (award-winning pianist and composer) and Francesco Bigoni (reedman with Maria Faust and many others).

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