This is the fourth album I've done with my Iceland-based trio and it's the first time we've added another musician to the mix. The Finnish trumpeter Verneri Pohjola has been on my radar for a few years and we had been in touch about possibly working together at some point. When the trio was invited to Finland to play at the Tampere Jazz Happening, I knew that was the opportunity we'd been waiting for. After our performance in Tampere we went to the studio at the Sibelius Academy near Helsinki to record and stay for a couple of days. It was wonderful... sauna and all.
Þorgrímur Jónsson (double bass)
Scott McLemore (drums)
guest:
Verneri Pohjola
1. Atlantic Lullaby 04:46
2. Ancestry 08:28
3. Spin 12 01:13
4. Movimiento 02:23
5. February 04:57
6. January 06:16
7. Spin 13 01:20
8. A Major Deal 05:19
9. Tricycle 05:52
10. Emu 05:40
11. Spin 14 01:32
12. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go 04:30
13. November 04:48
Produced by Sunna Gunnlaugs and Scott McLemore. Recorded November 5th and 6th 2017 by Markus Bonsdorff at Kallio-Kuninkala Studios, Sibelius Academy in Finland. Mixed and mastered by Kjartan Kjartansson in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Design by d-steam.com.
Cover Photo by Amy Nicolazzo. Band photo and Pohjola’s hands by Maarit Kytöharju, other hand photos by Sigurdór Guðmundsson.
Verneri Pohjola appears courtesy of Edition Records.
