Slow-burn improv music. Inspired by harmolodics, folk music, 20th century classical music and old pop records. It is like a journey through different colours and expressions, where the musical building bricks are torn down, rearranged and reassembled.

7 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Free Jazz, CLASSICAL: Contemporary



Details:
"Time Jungle" has liner notes by Marilyn Crispell. Quote: âThe compositions and the playing on this CD are wonderful. I felt like I was being taken on a journey. Sometimes I had impressions of New Orleans, the Caribbean, Arabia, northern tundras, and even Mongolia.(â¦)It's a beautiful and impressive CD. Thanks, Gunhild!â

Gunhild Seim is a trumpet player and composer living in Stavanger, Norway, who works within jazz and related genres. She is contributing her trumpet sounds both to folk musicians and impro/contemporary musicians, as well as composing for various ensembles. Now for the first time she puts out an album with her own compositions, together with her band Time Jungle. Producer and guest artist on the album is New-York sax player Andrew DâAngelo. In 2004, Gunhild played with Andrew DâAngelo for the first time, and this was such a eye-opening experience that she asked Andrew if he would produce the debut album of Time Jungle. He answered that he would like to both produce and play on the album, so Andrew and Time Jungle went to the studio and recorded 7 of Gunhilds compositions. The result is an impressive album of slow-burn improv music, where the extreme blowouts often associated with the improv genre are toned down and mixed with slow, friendly moods, strange but playful melodies, fragile and honest conversations and extended melodic development.


BIOS
Gunhild Seim
has studied trumpet and composition with Dave Douglas, among others, and holds a degree in trumpet performance and composition from the University of Stavanger, Norway and Carl Nielsen Academy in Odense, Denmark. She has been working as a trumpet player and composer within jazz, ethnic and contemporary music since 1998. After spending years working as a trumpetplayer in different styles, and writing commissions for various ensembles, shows and short films, she wanted to combine her skills and speak with her own voice. Since 2003 she has been focusing on performing her own compositions. She is one of the founders of the 12-piece ensemble The Kitchen Orchestra (www.kitchenorchestra.no), consisting of professional classical and jazz musicians working with conducted collective improvisation. With help from the organisation Ny Musikk and The Norwegian Arts council this ensemble has been able to invite and perform with several internationally acclaimed artists: danish composer/free jazz musician Lotte Anker (Copenhagen Art Ensemble) and british free impro-legend Steve Beresford among others. The Kitchen Orchestra has also conducted a workshop for Norwegian symphony orchestras. In 2005-06 Gunhild has also toured Norway with the Norwegian folk music ensemble Kreik. In 2006 she started her own label, Drollehålå Records. In addition to performing with different bands in Norway, Gunhild has also premiered some of her compositions for large jazz-ensembles at Banff Summer Jazz Festival in Canada and Copenhagen International Jazzfestival in Denmark. She has received the grants âStavanger Kommunes kulturstipendâ and âNorsk Jazzforums musikerstipendâ in 2005


Andrew dâAngelo
(Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Computer, Composition) has lived in Brooklyn, New York since 1986 but is a Seattle native. He toured the US this Fall with his own trio, which includes Norwegian musicians Anders Hana and Morten Olsen. That trio recorded their 3rd cd (August 2004) which is currently out on the Norwegian based label Jazzaway. After their tour of the states this fall this same trio, under the name of MORTHANA, recorded their 4th cd for a Japanese based label called Doubtmusic, which will be released spring 2005.
He is also releasing a solo bass clarinet cd including works by himself, Michael Rose, Stephan Larose, and Nissim Schaul.
He also works and tours with the great Matt Wilson Quartet. A group which he has performed with for the last 8 years. They have four cds available on the Palmetto label.
In November 2004, he was invited to Portugal for two weeks to perform 9 concerts and 6 days of workshops at the GUIMARES Jazz Festival with the Matt Wilson Quartet. Last winter he was also in St. Petersburg, Russia to create an art installation with Kitchen Motors of Iceland. He was also busy this past year performing, recording and touring with the trio TYFT with Jim Black and Hilmar Jensson. They played at the Iceland Jazz festival in November 2004 and also toured the midwestern United States, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. TYFT just released their second cd, Ditty Blei (Songlines). Mr. d'Angelo has performed workshops at several Universities, Colleges, and Conservatories: Amsterdam Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, FIH Music College Reykjavik, University of Northern Illinois, Wichita State University, George Washington University, the University of Rhode Island, Trondheim Musikhogskola, Kungliga Musikhogskolan i Stockholm, Göteborg Musikhogskola, Göteborg Musikhogskola, Rytmisk Conservatorium in Copenhagen, Odense Musikhogskola, Wichita State University, North Texas State University, Nordic Heritage Museum of Ballard. Mr. d'Angelo also writes music for big band, chamber groups, string orchestra, soloists, and has recently performed some of his larger compositions in Iceland, throughout the US, Europe, and Norway. He has worked with what seems like a vast array of fantastic artists and musicians: Trevor Dunn, Herb Robertson, Joel Frahm, Cuong Vu, Ed Schuller, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Dewey Redman, Lee Konitz, Bobby Previte, Jamie Saft, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson, Bill McHenry, Ben Monder, Mark Dresser, Ben Street, Laurie Frink, and others. Andrew also likes to paint and make light sculptures.

John Lilja: bass player, with a bachelor degree in Jazz Composition from Berklee college of Music. He shows up on record with Frode Gjerstad, Thomas Dybdahl and balkan-punk trio Jackman, among others. He has toured several european festivals in Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Spitsbergen, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Hungary with bands such as Jackman og Noxakt, and performed with artists such as Arve Henriksen, Ole Paus, David Garibaldi, Kjetil Møster, Anders Hana and Kitchen Orchestra. He also has composed original music for the Norwegian Broadcasting Company, finnish bigband Pophorn and dutch orchestra Metropole Orkest.

Dag Magnus Narvesen: Drummer, who also plays with the band Sasquatch and piano trio Væike Pæike. He has performed with a number of other artists such as Andrew dâAngelo, Nils Henrik Asheim, Hanitra Rasoanaivo, Virgo Sillamaa, Ove Hetland and Wayne Brasel. He is also a member of much amentioned Kitchen Orchestra. Dag Magnus has performed at Norwegian festivals Maijazz, Osøren Jazz og Bluesfestival and Jazz Incubator, plus Aberdeen Jazz Festival and Aberdeen Youth Festival in Scotland, and Tudengijazz in Estland. He finished his bachelorâs degree in jazz at the University of Stavanger, spring 2006, where he studied with Per Oddvar Johansen og Stein Inge Brækhus.

Allan Vigre: Norwegian guitarist who has been a professional performer for many years, with experience in many genres. For instance he played 10 years for the band Dollie De Luxe who has been a very well known popband in Norway, before settling in his hometown of Stavanger. In recent years he has specialized in noise and sound effects on the guitar. He also has started his own studio AcousDig Lydstudio og Musikkproduksjon DA. He studied music at the University of Oslo and sound engineering the University of Stavanger.