Nakama
Nakama is a Norwegian jazz and improvising ensemble from Oslo, formed in 2015 and led by double bassist and composer Christian Meaas Svendsen. The group runs its own label, Nakama Records, founded the same year. Its name is the Japanese word for comrade or peer, and the collective aims for a non-hierarchical way of working, moving between composed forms and free improvisation. Nakama started as a quartet with Adrian Løseth Waade (violin), Ayumi Tanaka (piano), Andreas Wildhagen (drums) and Svendsen.
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Worst Generation
"Worst Generation" is Nakama’s first fully improvised album, and was recorded as part of a live concert in studio during their first European tour. The LP version is in lenticular – the motif changes when viewed from a different angle. The CD is in E…
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Most Intimate
**CD version** Most Intimate is Nakama’s third release. Their previous albums have been very conceptual, dealing with the relation between sound and silence on Before the Storm and then form as something malleable on Grand Line. Most Intimate is diff…
Grand Line
**CD version** The music on Grand Line consists of two separate components: musical compositions and form compositions, and explores form as a malleable object in shaping musical content. Founded on a fixed music material it is an approach which mixe…
Before the Storm
Before the Storm features four original compositions by Nakama’s leader Christian Meaas Svendsen. The album is the group’s first recording, and can be summed up as an investigation of sound related to silence through a minimalistic approach to both w…
