Nakama

Country: Norway

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.