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Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love Duo with The Optic Nerve Trio
Paal Nilssen-Love/Ken Vandermark
The high impact duo of Paal Nilssen-Love (drums) and Ken Vandermark (reeds) has been working
together at an accelerated rate since 2002, and they have put out seven albums of exceptional and
wide ranging improvised music since then. Though they have both worked in many critically
acclaimed groups- from the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, Lean Left (with Terrie Hessels and Andy
Moor of The Ex) to Double Tandem (with Dutch saxophonist, Ab Baars)- they have continued to return
to their duo for more than a dozen years because it remains crucial to their creative output.
Nilssen-Love and Vandermark began this collaboration when they recorded their initial album, Dual
Pleasure, for the label smalltownsupersound. Shortly afterward, they performed their first concert at
the Molde International Jazz Festival. Since then, they've performed on an international basis every
year- in Europe, North America, and Japan. Their approach to the duo context is ferocious in its
intensity, combining extreme rhythmic velocity with formal deconstruction and re-assembly, and a
freedom to use any genre at anytime. In many ways, Nilssen-Love and Vandermark are more open
this setting than in any of their other playing situations, creating a unique approach to improvised
music that is riveting for both its ideas and execution.
In September of 2015 their duo will hit the road in the United States, performing in the Midwest and
on the West Coast to celebrate the release of their eighth album, a co-production from their labels:
PNL Records and Audiographic Records, recorded live during a blistering performance in Antwerp
during their European tour of October, 2013.
"In the work of some artists there is an opus magnum, referring to the largest, and perhaps the best,
greatest, or most renowned achievement of their art, often (but not necessarily) a late work in which
they condense their mastership. Some examples might be Beethoven's Symphony Nr. 9, John
Coltrane's A Love Supreme, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time
or Rembrandt's The Night Watch.
Extended Duos, the latest release from Ken Vandermark (reeds) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), who
have been working together since 2002 and who have put out seven albums of the most excellent
improvised music in the reeds/drums duo genre (for example Milwaukee Volume or the recently
reviewed Lightning over Water), is such an opus magnum."
-Martin Schray (Free Jazz Blog), December 27, 2014
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LocationRedeemer Lutheran Church (View)
5431 NE 20th Ave
Portland, OR 97211
United States
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