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Mark Solborg & Herb Robertson: NOD

Mark Solborg & Herb Robertson: NOD

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Herb Robertson: Trumpet & Voice
Mark Solborg: Guitars

Catalog number: ILK152CD
Release date: 06.07.2009

 

Solborg: “ I really like the way you slowly bend an idea into something new. ..all of a sudden it’s something else and you never noticed when it started changing..”

Robertson: “oh - you mean mutation.....”

In 2008 the guitarist Mark Solborg invited the American trumpeter Herb Robertson to Denmark to join his quartet. During those days they also recorded the duo-album “NOD”.

Melodic, fabulating and epic landscapes unfold in a beautiful, intimate and - now and again - minimalistic universe with ample room for detail and Robertsons unique sound. The music is born in an intuitive space that might have more to do with an approach to life than a specific musical genre.

NOD is mutual understanding and respect, NOD is a device for nocturnal observation, NOD is the wasteland to which Cain was banished, NOD is the Land of Dreams and mutating imagination..

During the working process with NOD we stumbled upon these verses that struck resonance with both of us.

The Land of Nod

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod.

All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what to do -
All alone beside the streams
And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

The strangest things are there for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening sights abroad
Till morning in the land of Nod.

Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.

 

Reviews

Every quiet passage here is invested with personality - Brian Morton, Jazz Journal, UK

..this meeting possesses a strong sense of egalitarianism, where Solborg’s contribution stands on an equal level. Great diversity.... the mere fitting of a trumpet mute or tweaking of an effects dial can completely alter their sonic language.. - Martin Longley - All About Jazz New York, US

.. A small masterpiece .. / ..raffineret klangkunst for to velartikulerede samtalepartnere. ....et lille mesterværk på sit felt. - Ib skovgaard, weekendavisen, DK

..tough and tender .. unbeatable skills - Ken Waxman, Jazz Word, US

Solborgs best album so far .. one of Denmark’s best guitarists right now. - Geiger.dk

★★★★★  Stunningly beautiful. I love it ! - Free Jazz Blog, Netherlands

Herb and Mark are perfectly matched and seem to anticipate each other on every piece. - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery, NY

Music that can only be played by musicians who knows what they're doing.. - Peter H. Larsen, Dagbladet Information, DK

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