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Gitar

by Knut Reiersrud

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1.
Mohan Vina 05:12
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Magnolia 04:13
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Gorrlausen 02:34
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Tamil 04:23
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The Hook 10:12
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Waltz 02:35
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Low Swing 04:23
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Epilog 02:49

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"Knut Reiersrud plays the blues." This simple statement is a truism that rolls out of critical pens all too easily, and tends to mask the fact that Knut Reiersrud is a great deal more than your common-or-garden variety blues guitarist. His playing distinguishes itself not only by his deep understanding and command of the blues in all its facets, but in the range of emotion he manages to express within it. He incorporates elements from different traditions, perhaps most notably those from Norwegian folk and church music, yet maintains a balance quite unique among his peers in that he doesn't merely blend the mechanics of the music, but instead enmeshes the spiritual elements these diverse musics have in common. In this sense, rather than a straight player, he is a bold interpreter, creating something new, uniquely his own.
On this, his first Jazzland Recordings release, his interpretive and expressive skills are brought to the fore. From the opening track, "Mohan Vina", it is clear that this is something special. Each note that comes from Reiersrud's guitar is there for a good reason: no note is wasted or unnecessary - which isn't to say that the music is spare or typically "nordic" as many critics these days like to say. This is warm-blooded, passionate music. Tracks like "Hard Times Killing Floor" embrace the blues fully, but are more like distant cousins of the Mississippi Delta sound than some Friday night post-1960s shoebox emulation like we have become not only accustomed to, but immune to. On "Magnolia", we are invited into an interior sound world, a coupling of Reiersrud's guitar and Nils Petter Molvaer's trumpet, melancholic and beautiful, never self-indulgent: the music again conforms to a level of quality without becoming sterile as it would so easily become in the hands of a lesser musician.

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released October 26, 2017

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