Tord Gustavsen Ensemble at the RNCM
Tord Gustavsen Ensemble Saturday 15 March, 8pm RNCM Theatre
Liz Rowley
PR and Media Relations Officer
Royal Northern College of Music
124 Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9RD
T: 0161 907 5369
E: liz.rowley@rncm.ac.uk
W: www.rncm.ac.uk
Twitter: RNCMvoice
Facebook: RNCMLive
Tord Gustavsen piano
Tore Brunborg saxophones
Mats Eilertsen double bass
Jarle Vespestad drums
The 2014 Spring tour heralds the release of a new recording by the Tord Gustavsen
Ensemble on the prestigious ECM label. Norwegian pianist and composer Gustavsen
describes this latest release, Extended Circle, as ‘being the completion of a double circle of
trilogies’ - the first albums being in the classic trio format of piano-bass-drums, followed later
by recordings for extended ensemble and quartet. This latest recording concludes his
second trilogy.
Tord's new material is pointing forwards in musical openness and creativity, while at the
same time clearly picking up the quietness and grounded sensuality of the hugely successful
trio albums. It includes several pure trio pieces, and is embracing anew the almost
minimalistic simplicity and striking Nordic-Caribbean-Gospel-Impressionist-Bluesy touch that
so many people came to love in Gustavsen’s début album.
Paradoxically, the new album includes a dynamic contrast and is perhaps even more stylistic
than before; but it still feels like an integrated musical journey, with transitions and album
‘composition’ clearly being art-forms in themselves, carried out in close creative co-operation
between Tord Gustavsen and ECM’s legendary producer Manfred Eicher.
The band has toured extensively in the UK, Germany, France, Scandinavia, the US and
Canada with their highly successful previous release The Well (2012). Since then, its
repertoire for the upcoming album has evolved and developed during hours of intense live
playing at concerts and festivals throughout the world.
‘Gustavsen's tunes are hypnotically strong... masterpiece of the understated’ (The Guardian)
‘A trilogy [that] could be the most essential jazz document of the last ten years. Sublime.’
(The Independent)
Tord Gustavsen Ensemble can be seen at the RNCM Theatre, Manchester, on
Saturday 15 March at 8pm. Tickets cost £18, £16 and £14, and concessions are
available. To book call 0161 907 5555 or visit www.rncm.ac.uk.
For more information or to request interviews and images, please contact Liz Rowley,
PR and Media Relations Officer, at liz.rowley@rncm.ac.uk or 0161 907 5369.
ENDS
For up-to-date press releases visit www.rncm.ac.uk/press
For up-to-date news visit www.rncm.ac.uk/news
To access these links please view Headers and Footers.