#Anja Lauvdal

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Spells by Jenny Hval, opening track of The Long Sleep EP - Director: Constance Tenvik

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Anja Lauvdal @  Oslo Jazz Festival, Norway, 15. August 2016

source: wikimedia photo: Tore Sætre

[theories-of]

CLOSING_THE_NIGHT WITH THEORIES FAVORITE 2022 ALBUMS | 1

Aldous Harding - Warm Chris

Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

Anja Lauvdal - From a Story Now Lost

Ben Woods - Dispeller

Kiwi Jr.  - Chopper

[dustedmagazine]

Anja Lauvdal — From a Story Now Lost (Smalltown Supersound)

Photo by Anne Valeur

From a Story Now Lost by Anja Lauvdal

Norwegian pianist and composer Anja Lauvdal comes from a jazz background which informs the oblique approach on her debut album From A Story Now Lost. Working with producer Laurel Halo, she creates a series of atmospheric pieces steeped in classical and ambient influences full of bewitching details that counterpoint the naturalism of Lauvdal’s piano. A palimpsest of memory and experience in which fragments emerge and linger briefly to be subsumed as perspectives shift. The image comes to mind of an archaeologist digging through jumbled, partly indecipherable histories, intuiting a connective narrative.

Lauvdal was inspired in part by her rediscovery of pianist and composer Agathe Backer Grøndahl, a friend and contemporary of Edvard Grieg, who has been called Norway’s first impressionist. Interestingly the track “Fantastie for Agathe Backer Grøndahl” is the least overtly pianistic piece here. A slightly off-kilter keyboard motif plays over woozy counterpoint before slowly drowning in a quicksand of hiss and crackle as if to connect the composer to the contemporary dark ambience of Supersilent and Helge Stern. By contrast, the romantic melancholy of “Clara” is a relatively unadorned tribute to Clara Schumann whose talent as an interpreter, improviser and composer has been long overshadowed by her personal history. Elsewhere there are reflections on effects of climate change on the Arctic Circle which are directly affecting Norway. “Sukkertare” references the loss of up to 80% of the sea kelp beds off the country’s west coast. At heart of the track is the submerged swaying of a club beat struggling to breathe in a de-oxygenated miasma. On “Xerxesdrops” cellos and basses augment Lauvdal’s contemplative improvisation set against the distant howl of Arctic winds that fail to diminish the warmth of the piano. “A Swim” wobbles and swooshes like an early Pole track charting the rhythm of breath and blood as laps through time. 

Halo’s sympathetic production highlights Lauvdal’s improvisational skill and conceptual sophistication as she creates evocative connections between past erasures and present obliviousness, absorbing flickers of light and refracting them as sparkling mosaics of sound. From A Story Now Lost seeks not to provide a clear narrative but to demonstrate the ways that curiosity, acknowledgement and constant questioning keeps history alive and points the way forward.  

Andrew Forell

[sonicziggy]

"Paper Fox" by Mari Kvien Brunvoll, Stein Urheim, Moskus, Anja Lauvdal, Hans Hulbækmo, Fredrik Luhr Dietrichson https://ift.tt/7R85AN0

[thoregil]

2024-07-15 Trondheim Jazzorkester & I Like to Sleep: 'Pieces of Scattered Dreams' - Teatret Vårt, Moldejazz

[sigurdytrearne]

Hyllest til Joni Mitchell Sentrum Scene, Oslo, April 2023

Frida Ånnevik – vokal Susanna Wallumrød – vokal Sondre Lerche – vokal Marianna Sangita – vokal Harald Lassen – saksofon Torstein Lavik Larsen – trompet Christian Winther – gitar Magnus Nergaard – bass Hans Hulbækmo – trommer Anja Lauvdal – musikalsk leder og tangenter Ingrid Skancke Høsøien – lys

[culturedarm]

Ishmael Reed wonders what we'd do without the moon, Felicity Mangan sets out her stall by the banks of the Toce river, Molly Joyce engages the perspectives of 47 disabled interviewees, and Autumn Fair celebrate the tenth anniversary of Recital. Ami Dang introduces listeners to a world of muted crime and sinuous rhapsody, Anja Lauvdal links up with Laurel Halo for a suite of stovetop dreams and antediluvian fantasies, and David John Morris rocks up at a guardianship in North London where limerence comes through Hook and a sense of community which one might call home, as tracks by Moin, Hannes Bennich, Naphta, and Ivo Perelman also feature in the latest roundup of new music.

https://culturedarm.com/tracks-of-the-week-29-10-22/

[kristina100000]

Just wanted to say thank you for recommending that ayami Suzuki album a while back. I love it. It has become a part of my life and it’s all thanks to you

if you liked passage i think you would also really like these

[hastohurtifitstoheal]

Listen/purchase: Farewell to Faraway Friends Vol 1 & 2 by Anja Lauvdal

[earthwound]

list of concerts i went to

2024

MIKE (gnration) w/ berni & dudu

oqbqbo (antimuseu, CIAJG) w/ berni & inês

Croatian Amor (antimuseu, CIAJG) w/ friends

Meth Math (lovers & lollypops) w/ friends

Eartheater (primavera sound) w/ friends

Mitski (primavera sound) w/ friends

Ana Frango Elétrico (primavera sound)

2023

DakhaBrakha (hard club) w/ lauro

Ornatos Violeta w/berni & ivy

Ethel Cain (meo kalorama) w/ bia, joa & luís

Florence + The Machine (meo kalorama) w/ bia

Arca (meo kalorama) w/ bia

Shygirl (meo kalorama) w/bia, joa & luís

Belle and Sebastian (meo kalorama) w/ bia

Eiko Ishibashi (semibreve) w/ berni

Anja Lauvdal (semibreve) w/ berni

Tukijo Noriko + Joji Koyama (semibreve) w/ berni

Emeralds (semibreve) w/ berni

Kali Malone (selibreve) w/ berni

Weyes Blood (hard club) w/ cat 2019

Croatian Amor (mucho flow, 2018)

Heavy Lungs (mucho flow, 2018)

Iceage (mucho flow, 2018) 2018

Angel Olsen (CCVF, 2018) w/ my dad

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (nps, 2018)

Nakama (Bar Irreal) 2017

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (genebra, 2017) 2016

Ben Frost (gnration, 2016) w/ afonso

Them Flying Monkeys (nos alive, 2016) w/ ivy, tó & alex

Little Scream (nos alive, 2016) w/ ivy, tó & alex

Calexico (nos alive, 2016) w/ ivy, tó & alex

José Gonzalez (nos alive, 2016) w/ ivy, tó & alex

PAUS (nos alive, 2016) w/ ivy, tó & alex

Four Tet (nos alive, 2016) w/ ivy, tó & alex

Grimes (nos alive, 2016) w/ ivy, tó & alex 2015

Princess Chelsea (rádio bar, 2015) w/ ivy, maria & príncipe 2014

PAUS (casa da música, 2014) w/ afonso & ivy

Linda Maritini (casa da música, 2014) w/ afonso & ivy

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Imperial Circus Dead Decadence - 殯――死へ耽る想いは戮辱すら喰らい、彼方の生を愛する為に命を讃える――。

Maria BC - Hyaline

An Abstract Illusion - Woe

Fit For An Autopsy - Oh What the Future Holds

Mamaleek - Diner Coffee

Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems

Viagra Boys - Cave World

Birds in Row - Gris Klein

The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta

Ben Frost - 1899 (Original Music From The Netflix Series)

Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor

Otoboke Beaver - SUPER CHAMPON

Fallujah - Empyrean

Open Mike Eagle - Component System with the Auto Reverse

Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory

Sigh - SHIKI

King Garbage - Heavy Metal Greasy Love

Death Is Not The End - All Bad Boy & All Good Girl: Manchester Street Soul Soundtapes, 1988-1996

Charlie Griffiths - Tiktaalika

Sam Prekop - Sons Of

The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist

Anja Lauvdal - From a Story Now Lost

Sonja - Loud Arriver

Immolation - Acts of God

Tears for Fears - The Tipping Point

These initially all had write-ups that then went away on New Year's, so here are my 25 favorite albums of 2022 (that weren't Melted Bodies' The Inevitable Fork Vol. 1 EP)

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Anja Lauvdal - Fantasie for Agathe Backer Gr​ø​ndahl from: Anja Lauvdal - From a Story Now Lost (Smalltown Supersound, 2022)

Produced by Laurel Halo, the album From A Story Now Lost is a jewel of subtle beauty and innovative detail that shows Lauvdal finally exploring her own voice after more than a decade of improvisations and collaborations with the likes of Jenny Hval and Lasse Marhaug.

[dustedmagazine]

Andrew Forell’s 2022 Favorite Five plus 22

Anteloper photo by Tim Saccenti

Here, in no particular order, are the five albums I’ve spent the most time with this year and another 22 for 22 that I am still enjoying or just catching up with.

Anteloper — Pink Dolphins (International Anthem)

In July I concluded my review by saying “The thrill of Pink Dolphins is the sense that branch and Nazary have a form of echolocation which guides them, that no matter how deep or murky the waters, they know exactly where the other is and what they are doing”. The loss of jaimie branch in August adds a poignancy to Pink Dolphins and the musical understanding she and Jason Nazary had developed and were deepening with every recording will be sorely missed.

Blackhaine — Armour II (Fixed Abode)

Dancer and choreographer Tom Heyes is best known in the US for his work with the artist formerly known as Kanye West. As Blackhaine he brings the ritualistic intensity of his dance style to the words and music of Armour II. He raps and sings about guilt, paranoia and the violence at the heart of contemporary Britain in the thick accent of his native Lancashire over a mix of drill and cinematic soundscapes. His collaboration with Iceboy Violet and Blood Orange on “Prayer” is one of the songs of year.

 Kevin Richard Martin —  Downtown & Nightcrawler (Self-released)

Kevin Richard Martin AKA The Bug delves into the obsidian depths on these two releases. Slabs of dank, dub inflected post-industrial ambience conjure the pearl clutching dread associated with the housing estates & so-called slums for which the tracks on Downtown are named but also a sense of the communities surviving there in the face of poverty and the threats of gentrification. Nightcrawler is a sort of companion piece, a cinematic post jazz soundtrack to the dangerous glamor of pre-dawn streets which sounds, if possible, like Bohren & Der Club of Gore’s narcoleptic cousins. Highly recommended for underground commutes.

  The Photocopies — greatest hits volume 1 & volume 2 (Self-released)

Sean Turner is a Londoner in Michigan with a deep love of 1980s & 1990s indie guitar music and an output whose prolificacy is only surpassed by its quality. greatest hits volume 1 & volume 2 collect 30 tracks from singles and EPs released between June 2021 and September 2022. Although Turner isn’t reinventing any wheels, his knack for supple melodies and lyrics both heartful and witty elevates these songs. “Control Freak,” “Pop Quiz” and “(Wishing I Had) Tickets for Saint Etienne” are all giddy propulsion and self-aware pop culture references. Even at his most lovelorn the hooks are razor sharp, “I Can’t Imagine What You See In Him” combines yearning and snark over Wedding Present guitars and a glam stomp that The Sweet would have killed for. It’s great fun and heaven knows we’ve been miserable enough.

22 more

700 Bliss — Nothing to Declare (Hyperdub)

Anja Lauvdal — From a Story Now Lost (Smalltown Supersound)

Artsick — Fingers Crossed (Slumberland)

billy woods — Aethiopes (Backwoodz Studioz)

billy woods x Messiah Musik — Church (Backwoodz Studioz)

The Boys with the Perpetual Nervousness — The Third Wave Of … (Bobo Integral)

The Bug — Absent Riddim (Pressure)

Burial — Streetlands (Hyperdub)

Caterina Barbieri — Spirit Exit (light-year

Dot Dash — Madman in the Rain (The Beautiful Music)

Dry Cleaning — Stumpwork (4AD)

Holy Tongue — III (Amidah Records)

I Am — Beyond (Division 81)

Kids on a Crime Spree — Fall in Love Not in Line (Slumberland)

M. Geddes Gengras — Expressed, I Noticed Silence (Hausu Mountain)

Martha — Please Don’t Take Me Back (Specialist Subject Records)

Moor Mother — Jazz Codes (Anti)

Morgana — Contemporaneità (Low Ambition Records)

The Mutual Torture — Don’t (Non-Standard Productions)

Quelle Chris — DEATHFAME (Mello Music Group)

Raw Poetic — Space Beyond the Solar System (22nd Century Sound)

Tom Skinner — Voices of Bishara (International Anthem)

Andrew Forell

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TOP 150 ALBUMS of 2022

150- Scarcity- Aveilut

149- Alice Glass- PREY//IV

148- Plains- I Walked With You a Ways

147- Sigh- Shiki

146- Bjork- Fossora

145- Boris- Heavy Rocks

144- Father John Misty- Chloe and the Next 20th Century

143- Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin- Ali

142- Palm- Nicks and Grazes

141- Deathcrash- Return

140- Rhodri Davis- DWA DNI

139- Hagop Tchaparian- Bolts

138- Cheekface- Too Much To Ask

137- Sarahsson- The Horgenaith

136- Sam Grendel- BlueBlue

135- Sam Gendel, Antonia Cytrynowicz- Live a Little

134- Makaya McCraven- In These Times

133- Julian Lage- View With a Room

132- Earl Sweatshirt- SICK!

131- Whatever The Weather- Whatever The Weather

130- Absent in Body- Plague God

129- Moin- Paste

128- Cheri Knight- American Rituals

127- Matt Ball- Amplified Guitar

126- Jairus Sharif- Water and Tools

125- Behemoth- Opvs Contra Natvram

124- Monster Rally- Botanical Dream

123- Ashenspire- Hostile Architecture

122- Death Cab For Cutie- Asphalt Meadows

121- Dave Douglas- Secular Psalms

120- Cult of Luna- Long Road North

119- Maria Moles- For Leolanda

118- Full Court Press- Full Court Press

117- Animal Collective- Time Skiffs

116- Luminous Vault- Animate the Emptiness

115- Mizmor & Thou- Myopia

114- KMRU & Aho Ssan- Limen

113- Sofie Birch- Holotropica

112- Avishai Cohen- Naked Truth

111- Philippe Bronchtein- Catch My Breath

110- Nik Colk Void- Bucked Up Space

109- Kelly Lee Owens- LP8

108- Nick Cave and Warren Ellis- Blonde

107- Infinity Knives, Brian Ennals- King Cobra

106- Johanna Warren- Lessons for Mutants

105- Joel Ross- Te Parable of The Poet

104- Brad Mehldau- Jacob’s Ladder

103- The Comet Is Coming- Hyper Dimensional Expansion Beam

102- Avishai Cohen- Shifting Sands

101- Patricia Brennan- More Touch

100- Madeleine Cocoas- Spectral

99- Skulcrusher- Quiet The Room

98- Caroline- Caroline

97- Knifeplay- Animal Drowning

96- Avalanche Kaito- Avalanche Kaito

95- Billy Woods- Aethiopes

94- Mamaleek- Dinner Coffee

93- Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker- Canti di Guerra, di Livorno e d’amore

92- Melissa Aldana- 12 Stars

91- Joy Guidry- Radical Acceptance

90- Binker Golding- Dream Like a Dogwood

89- black midi- Hellfire

88- Akusmi- Fleeting Future

87- Arp- New Pleasures

86- Daniel Rossen- You Belong There

85- Junior Boys- Waiting Game

84- Shearwater- The Great Awakening

83- Florist- Florist

82- Szun Waves- Earth Patterns

81- No Age- People Helping People

80- Lucretia Dalt- ¡Ay!

79- Rich Ruth- I Survived, It’s Over

78- Colin Stetson- Chimaera I

77- Ulla- Foam

76- The Lord + Petra Haden- Devotional

75- Nonsun- Blood & Spirit

74- Bill Callahan- Reality

73- Aoife Nessa Frances- Protector

72- The Soft Pink Truth- Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?

71- Kendrick Lamar- Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

70- High Pulp- Pursuit of Ends

69- Soul Glo- Diaspora Problems

68- Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn- Pigments

67- Bartess Strange- Farm to Table

66- Burial- Antidawn

65- Keiji Haino & Sumac- into this juvenile apocalypse…

64- Beth Orton- Weather Alive

63- Jenny Hval- Classic Objects

62- Angel Olsen- Big Time

61- Nils Frahm- Music for Animals

60- Daniel Bachman- Almanac Behind

59- Wilco- Cruel Country

58- Boris- W

57- Goose- Dripfield

56- Steve Lacy- Gemini Rights

55- Sun’s Signature- EP

54- Gang of Youths- Angel in Realtime

53- Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena- West Kinsington

52- Aeviterne- The Ailing Facade

51- Pusha T- It’s Almost Dry

50- Black Country, New Road- Ants From Up There

49- Ashley McBryde presents: Linderville

48- Alina Bzhezhinska & Hip Harp Collective- Reflections

47- Pinegrove- 11:11

46- Various Artists- Here It Is: A Tribute To Leonard Cohen

45- Bonnie Light Horseman- Rolling Golden Holy

44- Chat Pile- God’s Country

43- Oren Ambarchi- Shebang

42- Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin- Ghosted

41- Horse Lords- Comradely Objects

40- Brian Eno- FOREVERNOMORE

39- Anja Lauvdal- For a Story Now Lost

38- CC Sorensen- Phantom Rooms

37- Kali Malone- Living Torch

36- Heart of The Ghost- Summons

35- Miles Okazaki- Thisness

34- Weyes Blood- And in The Darkness, Hearts Aglow

33- Maggie Rogers- Surrender

32- Loraine James- Building Something Beautiful For Me

31- Eli Winter- Eli Winter

30- Oded Tzur- Isabela

29- Sharon Van Etten- We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong

28- Max Richter- The New Four Seasons: Vivaldi Recomposed

27-Heith- X, Wheel

26- Ian William Craig- Music For Magnesium_173

25- Cecile McLorin Salvant- Ghost Songs

24- Medicine Singers- Medicine Singers

23- Joe Rainey- Niineta

22- Andrew Bernstein- A Presentation

21- Bill Orcutt- Music for Four Guitars

20- Danger Mouse & Black Thought- Cheat Codes

19- Tanya Tagaq- Tounges

18- Destroyer- Labyrinths

17- Lambchop- The Bible

16- Sault- Air

15- Claire Rousay- Everything Perfect is Already Here

14- Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Hunter- Recordings from the Aland Islands

13- Yayamoto+Fowler+Parker+Hirsh- Sparks

12- Nickolas Mohanna- Sight Drawings

11- Jasmine Myra- Horizons

10- William Parker- Universal Tonality

9- Michael Giacchino- The Batman

8- Beach House- Once Twice Melody

7- Surya Botofasina- Everyone’s Children

6- OHYUNG- Imagine Naked!

5- The Smile- A Light for Attracting Attention

4- Sarah Davachi- Two Sisters

3- Immanuel Wilkins- The 7th Hand

2- Big Thief- Dragon New Warm Mountain

1- Rachika Nayar- Heaven Come Crashing

[thoregil]

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