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VOYAGES - ARNOLD LUDVIG SEXTET

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Arnold Ludvig

Label: Tutl Records
Released: 2013
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Tracks

Port of Thor; I Feel Better; Gentle Seas; Homebound Traveller; Midnight Lullaby; Journey to Copenhagen

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Arnold Ludvig Sextet - VOYAGES

Release date: August 6th, 2013 on Tutl Records, Faroe Islands.

The Faroese bassist, Arnold Ludvig, a resident of Copenhagen between 2007-2014, was completely unknown in the Danish scene, until very recently when he released his debut album as a jazz composer and bassist. Already after the first listen of his debut album, one quickly feels that he will continue and release more of his music.

The music takes the listener on a journey to the artist's homeland and the Nordic landscapes through six pleasurably catchy compositions, a Danish/Faroese project that has brought Ludvig in good company with established musicians in the Danish scene, such as Simon Spang-Hanssen, Mariane Bitran, and Niclas Campagnol.

One significant feature of VOYAGES is already heard on the album's introduction, Port of Thor, in quite the Bill Frisell’ish fashion, incorporating the national hymn-like music, in a melodic rubato theme, a move that is repeated in other energetic exuberant, funk-jazzy numbers, where Ludvig simultaneously displays his instrumental skills, with a beautifully carried tone on the fretless bass, as in the intro of the autobio-graphical, Journey to Copenhagen.

You're in good company during the entire journey, and the only thing that irks yours truly, is the short duration of just over half an hour.

Brian Petro

Jazz Special DK

okt - nov issue 2013

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