Six Easy Pieces

by Atomic

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1.	Be Wafted 07:41	buy track
2.	Fält Strid 06:02	buy track
3.	Five Easy Pieces 03:44	buy track
4.	Ten Years 11:39	buy track
5.	Sinusoidal Arches 07:30	buy track
6.	Stuck in Stockholm 11:53	buy track

about

The Swedish-Norwegian quintet Atomic has held a position at the forefront of the Scandinavian and European contemporary jazz scene for nearly 17 years. The band has the ability to delve ever more deeply into its own expressive idiom, and is still inquisitive, vital and full of energy. The new album “Six Easy Pieces” is the band’s 11th, and is the first on the ODIN label.

“Six Easy Pieces” is the second album where saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist, trumpeter Magnus Broo, pianist Håvard Wiik and bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten are playing with drummer Hans Hulbækmo (Moskus, Skadedyr, Broen), who replaced drummer Paal Nilssen-Love in 2014. As on the preceding albums, Håvard Wiik and Fredrik Ljungkvist are responsible for all the compositions on the album – three each. Atomic has evolved into their own compositional laboratory. They both have a liking for sudden shifts, catchy melodies and increasingly high ambitions in their compositions in order to challenge both themselves and their fellow musicians. At the same time, their approaches to composition are very different. While Fredrik brings sketches to the band, and develops and adapts them together with the other musicians, Håvard provides more detailed scores, which still give space and freedom for the other musicians to explore. Musically, Atomic covers as broad a spectrum as before in both stylistic and historical terms, and the contrast between the intricate compositions and the energy and freedom of the music has only intensified through the years. Nobody can combine jazz, improvisation and ideas from classical contemporary music in as spontaneous and memorable a way as Atomic. Naturally their musical interplay is perfectly integrated after 17 years, but the fact that they have also managed to keep their joy of playing together intact is both inspiring and a great pleasure for everyone who has ears to hear with.

“Six Easy Pieces” was recorded during a very inspired two-day session at Tonstudio 4Tune in Vienna in April 2016, with technician Martin Siewert. The first edition of the CD and the LP album are issued in deluxe versions, which include a double bonus CD featuring a live recording from Pit Inn in Tokyo from February 2016.

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released February 15, 2017

Fredrik Ljungkvist: saxophone & clarinet
Magnus Broo: trumpet
Håvard Wiik: piano
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: bass
Hans Hulbækmo: drums

Recorded at Tonstudio 4tune, Vienna by Martin Siewert & Markus Wallner, April 13th & 14th 2016.
Mixed and Mastered by Martin Siewert at Garnison7, Vienna in July 2016.
Produced by Atomic
Executive Producer Andreas Risanger Melan

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Atomic Oslo, Norway

Atomic was formed in 2000 by trumpeter Magnus Broo and reed player Fredrik Ljungkvist, from Sweden, and pianist Håvard Wiik, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, from Norway. Each musician was already a local star. The line-up remained unchanged until 2014, when Nilssen-Love left, to be replaced by fellow Norwegian Hans Hulbækmo. ... more