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After having performed three intense concerts with drummer Peter Bruun and bassist Mats Eilertsen in a little more than 24 hours at Kongsberg and Copenhagen Jazz Festival in July 2014, American trumpet icon Herb Robertson and Danish guitarist Mark Solborg paid a visit to Koncertkirken, an old church in downtown Copenhagen for a duo performance.
That Tuesday evening the music was more calm and contemplative than usual. The large room and beautiful acoustics breathed life into transparent motives, hymns, shouts and expressive textures. Essentially a musical dialogue between friends. Pensive prayers of peace is what you hear on this live-recorded duo album. Music for the quiet of late nights or early mornings.
Tuesday Prayers is available digitally and in a beautiful recycled-paper and non-glue pack- age containing CD and high resolution download. With the kind permission of the Nelleman family and Clausens Kunsthandel the package holds an original etching by Danish graphic artist par excellence Rasmus Nelleman (1923-2004): “Ledninger 1991” (“Wires 1991”). To Herb and Mark the artwork seems to resonate with the transparency and clear structures of the music within. Please visit www.clausenskunsthandel.dk for more information and a world of orginal Danish graphic artwork. The vinyl edition is in the pipeline.
The collaboration between Robertson and Solborg began in 2008 and includes the critically acclaimed albums: Herb Robertson/Mark Solborg NOD (ILK152CD) and Mark Solborg Trio feat. Herb Robertson and Evan Parker: The Trees (ILK199CD). Since then they have performed as a duo and with Mark Solborg Trio at multiple international festivals and venues in Central Europe, Scandinavia, Syriah, a.o.
“Every quiet passage here is invested with personality” - Jazz Journal, UK
"Delicate sound-art for two eloquent conversational partners .. A small masterpiece” - Ib skovgaard, weekendavisen, DK
“...A high point in Danish Improjazz. Music that has it’s own spirit and becomes a living organism, filled with wonder and joy. My soul, could you wish for more ?” - Niels Overgaard, Jazznyt.dk
HERB ROBERTSON: TRUMPET, PENNY WHISTLE AND PREPARATIONS
MARK SOLBORG: GUITARS AND DEVICES
Tracks
Preparations
#1 - The Flute (2:34) #2 - I know you (3:41)
Concert
#3 - Hymn (8:46)
#4 - Tuesday prayers (17:23)
#5 - Slideswitch* (1:06)
#6 - Shouts, landscape and goodbyes (8:09)
Total time (41:43)
All songs by Mark Solborg and Herb Robertson except * by Mark Solborg.
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