Field Day Rituals, by Splashgirl

Field Day Rituals

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1.	Long Story 03:47	buy track
2.	Field Day Rituals 06:23	buy track
3.	All The Vowels Missing 04:50	buy track
4.	Dulcimer 05:06	buy track
5.	Mass 06:10	buy track
6.	Never Been Anywhere Before 05:02	buy track
7.	The Portal 06:52	buy track
8.	´Twixt It and Silence 03:29	buy track
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On the new album “Field Day Rituals” the doom piano trio Splashgirl exceeds the high expectations that have been building up since the release of the group’s album “Pressure” in 2011. That album was described as “an instant classic” by Uncut Magazine and “a triumphant artistic exercise” by Jazzwise, and won a place on a number of “year’s best” lists.

With its fourth album, “Field Day Rituals”, the group is taking yet another giant step up and forward. The album is detail-rich, dramatic, full of atmosphere and massive, despite the sometimes viscous and reserved quality of the music. The players themselves describe the music on the album as “lighter and more optimistic than on the previous album”, although the soundscape remains so bass-heavy that the average kitchen radio will be under threat of extinction. Here Splashgirl refines its personal idiom, although
at the same time the influences of post-rock, classical music and, not least, jazz are even more apparent this time around.

The album was recorded in the course of two intense weeks at Avast Studio in Seattle, USA, together with engineer and producer Randall Dunn (Akron/Family, Black Mountain, Sun City Girls, Boris, Kinski, Sunn O))) and Earth). This recording marks the first time the trio has given a producer the authority to take decisions on behalf of the band. “He got us to play some of the music as though it were classical jazz, which we haven’t done for a long time. Randall also inspired us to take a favourable look at jazz again.”

Violist Eyvind Kang (Bill Frisell, Beck, John Zorn, Marc Ribot) plays on three tracks, and Timothy Mason’s subtle modular synths are a welcome surprise in several places on the album.

credits

released January 21, 2013

Splashgirl:
Andreas Stensland Løwe - piano and keyboards
Jo Berger Myhre - double bass
Andreas Lønmo Knudsrød - drums and percussion

Eyvind Kang - viola
Timothy Mason - modular synth

Compositions by Andreas Stensland Løwe, except Field
Day Rituals, Mass and The Portal by Jo Berger Myhre.
Arrangements by Splashgirl with Randall Dunn.

Recorded, mixed and produced by Randall Dunn at Avast!, Seattle, WA August 13th - 26th 2012.

Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service

Thank you; Randall, Eyvind, Tim, Tarame, Stuart, Jay, Rose Windows, Cecilie S., Silje V., Inga & Svava, John
& Karen at Earshot, Andreas Meland.

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Splashgirl Oslo, Norway

Splashgirl is a Norwegian jazz ensemble comprising the three young musicians Andreas Stensland Løwe (piano and electronics), Jo Berger Myhre(doublebass and tone generator) and Andreas Lønmo Knudsrød (drums, percussion and sounds), playing original music. ... more

discography

More Human

May 2024
Sixth Sense

Mar 2018
Hibernation

Nov 2015
Field Day Rituals

Jan 2013
Pressure

Sep 2011
Splashgirl Huntsville

Aug 2011
Arbor

Sep 2009

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