Friends & Neighbors - Circles (2024)

Friends & Neighbors
Circles
2024 - Clean Feed Records: CF662CD
https://www.cleanfeed-records.com/product/circles/
https://www.tollefostvang.com/album/friends-neighbors-circles
https://cleanfeedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/circles

* André Roligheten: tenor saxophone
* Thomas Johansson: trumpet
* Oscar Grönberg : piano
* Jon Rune Strøm : double bass
* Tollef Østvang : drums, percussion

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/friends-neighbors-mn0002875505

https://www.andreroligheten.com/
https://www.thomasjohansson.no/
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/oscar-gr%C3%B6nberg-mn0003576416
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jon-rune-str%C3%B8m-mn0003349448
https://www.tollefostvang.com/

Recorded by Dag Erik Johansen and Kai Andersen at Athletic Sound,
Halden, Norway, on December 14th and 15th, 2022.

Reviews
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By Stephen Graham
https://www.marlbank.net/

Long established Scandi group Friends and Neighbors return here with their very
accessible take on a heritage free-jazz style, their well considered originals
grounded in the spirit of titans of free jazz from Ornette Coleman to Cecil
Taylor and far beyond. The improvisations spool out from some very strong heads
and you get a lot of bluesiness and sense of the roots of the music that
Ornette and others took from early jazz. Tenorist André Roligheten's solo at
the beginning of 'Son' is a great high point of the album and the title track
too has a winning coherence to it. We also liked the serene piano contribution
from Oscar Grönberg on the woozy 'Hymn Infinitum'. Simply miles better than a
lot of current free-jazz out there at the moment, the ragged, rip-roaring
fervour Friends and Neighbors generate is infectious.

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By Mark Corroto
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/circles-friends-and-neighbors-clean-feed

By Roz Milner
https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/742869638125436928/friends-neighbors-circles-clean-feed

Tor Hammerø (no)
https://www.nettavisen.no/kjendis/friends-neighbors-circles/r/5-95-1746646

Jan Granlie (dk)
https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/friends-neighbors-5/