Arild Andersen, one of jazz’s most widely acclaimed bassists, presents his first solo album. Characteristically broad in its musical scope and creative range, Landloper was recorded primarily at Oslo’s Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene (with one piece recorded at Arild’s home).

Choice of repertoire in this recital reflects on Arild’s artistic journey, and, alongside Andersen originals (“Dreamhorse”, “Mira”, “Landloper”), we find Norwegian traditional music (“Old Stev”), a romantic jazz standard (“A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square”), and new light cast upon free jazz classics (Albert Ayler’s “Ghosts”, Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman”, Charlie Haden’s “Song for Che”).

Andersen’s performances combine his masterful bass playing with real-time creation of electronic loops that bring an atmospheric dimension to solo playing and fresh opportunities for interaction.

1. Peace Universal [6:40]
2. Dreamhorse [4:24]
3. Ghosts / Old Stev / Landloper [7:48]
4. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square [4:43]
5. Mira [4:32]
6. Lonely Woman / Song for Che [6:15]

Recorded in June 2020 at Victoria National Jazz Scene, Oslo, the album opens on the stoically elegant Peace Universal (written by drummer Bob Moses) and then brings us the ornately-hued, transcendentally-sculpted, albeit minimalist Dreamhorse, the melodiously humbling Ghosts / Old Stev / Landloper (the first track a spectral fragment of Albert Ayler’s music, the middle one a Norwegian traditional), and then along next is one of my own personal favorites, his veritably shimmering rendition of the jazz standard A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, the recording rounding out on the dutifully dulcet Mira (named after a pulsating red giant star of variable appearance that expands and contracts periodically), closing on a magnificently majestic, ornately sculpted coupling from Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden, Lonely Woman / Song for Che.

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