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

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

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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.  

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


Mark Solborg Trio feat. Robertson & Parker - The Trees

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