PRESS TEXT

«Kitchen Music» is Adrian Løseth Waade’s first album in his own name. While having contributed on a long list of Norwegian jazz records, his own music has taken shape, and is finally ready to present. For the occasion, he has recruited some of his absolute favourite musicians, every one of which helps to create a mood that is «just right». Sometimes simple and melodic, sometimes ecstatic and free, but always expressive, encapsulating both the grave and the playful.

TRACK LIST
1. Voyager
2. Kitchen Music
3. Fuglens Cabaret
4. Morning Routine
5. Hvitt som kokosnøttens kjerne
6. Indoor life

PERSONNEL
Adrian Løseth Waade – violin (compositions)
Kjartan Lægreid Gullikstad – guitar
Bardur Reinert Poulsen – bass
Simon Olderskog Albertsen – drums

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Salt Peanuts

Norwegian violinist Adrian Løseth Waade, known as a member of the music collective Nakama and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and pianist Eylof Dale’s Wolf Valley octet, called his debut album as a bandleader «Kitchen Music». The title of this album reflects Løseth Waade’s rich language, where folk roots blend organically with jazz and rock ingredients, lyrical and melancholic colors are mixed with ecstatic and exotic spices and the musical stew balances between the grave and the hot and free..

Løseth Waade is assisted by the rhythm section of pianist Espen Berg Trio and Wako quartet – double bass player Bardur Reinert Poulsen and drummer Simon Olderskog Albertsen. Young guitarist Kjartan Lægreid Gullikstad rounds this quartet. This quartet succeeds to offer a natural flow that highlights the expressive and elegant, sometimes fragile touch of Løseth Waade and the strong affinity of Reinert Poulsen and Olderskog Albertsen.

The music navigates carelessly from «Fuglens Cabaret» that represents the playful, jazzy side of Løseth Waade, full of sudden twists between fast shifting moods and edgy dynamics, to the breezy-folky «Morning Routine» and the mysterious and cinematic «Hvitt som kokosnøttens kjerne». The last piece «Indoor Life» suggests the most beautiful melody here and realizes best all the colorful elements of «Kitchen Music».

Nitestylez

Scheduled for release on September 27th, 2k19 via Norway's Nakama Records imprint is Adrian Løseth Waade's "Kitchen Music", a six track piece in which the renowned Jazz musician and violin player approached music from a different angle only to deliver his first solo album ever. Working with likeminded artists like Kjartan Laegreid Gullikstad, Bardur Reinert Poulsen and Simon Olderskog Albertsen in the realisation and recording process we defo see where the albums title is coming from, diving deep into a mellow, intimate, easy variation of Contemporary Jazz which reveals mastership and advanced techniques when one listens closely, yet can also function as a soothing, organic and highly comforting background music played on repeat for hours throughout extended, deep and intimate candlelight conversations, preferably happening in your loved ones kitchen, accompanied by a bottle of wine... or many. But don't you dare to mistake this one for an Easy Listening album as highly complex, syncopated drums like those to be found in Adrian Løseth Waade's "Morning Routine" will bring shattering nightmares to those looking for easy 'easy' for a reason. And yet "Fuglens Cabaret" would be perfect complementing BarJazz score for a smokey, slightly rundown venue serving a selection of the best classic cocktails and longdrinks in town.

The Sound Projector

Surely dedicated to those who are still doing time in the kitchen at parties, Norwegian jazz player Adrian Løseth Waade’s debut solo album “Kitchen Music” is a friendly and intimate, if sometimes melancholy, excursion in free experimental improv jazz. For this record, ALW roped in three of his pals in the experimental jazz scene to play guitar, double bass and drums in six tracks he composed himself, with his violin taking centre stage most of the time. The result is a session of pleasant folky-sounding improv jazz that mirrors a relaxing day away from the pressures of work and life, as suggested by the track titles and the way in which they are arranged, starting with “Voyager” and the title track, continuing with “Morning Routine” and later ending with “Indoor Life” with its intimation of quiet time with coffee, cigarettes and convivial conversation. The music might not be experimental music so cutting-edge that you end up dying from a thousand cuts caused by handling the disc or the vinyl record but at least it’s easy on the ear, uncomplicated and pure in sound and production, sympathetic to people’s feelings about the humdrum routines of everyday life, and offers an easy-going outlet for the petty frustrations that inevitably accumulate. A fitting soundtrack for those who still have yet to make their way out from the kitchen onto the dance-floor and into the spotlight under the rotating silver ball.