{"title":"Huntsville","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuntsville is an innovative musical trio known for their unique blend of experimental and improvisational sounds. Drawing inspiration from a diverse range of genres, including jazz, rock, and ambient music, they have created a distinctive sound that defies categorization. With their mesmerizing performances and boundary-pushing compositions, Huntsville has captivated audiences around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSimilar to other avant-garde artists like Supersilent and Moskus, Huntsville pushes the boundaries of traditional music by incorporating elements of free improvisation and unconventional instrumentation. Their compositions often feature intricate layers of sound created through the use of guitars, drums, electronics, and various other instruments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith influences ranging from The Necks to Bill Orcutt, Huntsville's music is characterized by its atmospheric textures and hypnotic rhythms. Their ability to create immersive sonic landscapes has earned them critical acclaim within the experimental music community.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bow-shoulder","title":"Bow Shoulder","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the studio, Huntsville's Ivar Grydeland, Ingar Zach, and Tonny Kluften were joined at the Loft by Nels Cline, Glenn Kotche, Darin Gray and keyboardist Yuka Honda (co-founder of Cibo Matto and an accomplished composer) for a fully improvised session.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album builds with exquisite patience, as layers of tender, probing guitar lines spread out in lush vaporous waves over the pulsing bass tones and exquisite percussive clatter and bowing. It recalls the beautiful work Huntsville has created as a trio, but the timbre is richer, the interplay is more complex, and the melodic shards are denser. As Huntsville gear up to make new music, this transmission from the past delivers both a powerful reminder of its strengths and a thrilling realization of its flexibility and generosity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtists Ivar Grydeland: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar, banjo, electronics Tonny Kluften: electric bass Ingar Zach: drums, percussion, tabla machine, drone commander Guests: Yuka Honda: keyboards Nels Cline: electric guitar, effects Darin Gray: double bass, preparations Glenn Kotche: drums, percussion, electronics\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hubro","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50462711480651,"sku":"1107227","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/df1900bf-067d-45ac-a9ab-7129ee2b96c8_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727259207"},{"product_id":"for-the-middle-class","title":"For The Middle Class","description":"\u003cp\u003eformed by the creative core of norwegian improv supergroup no spaghetti edition, huntsville comprises multi-instrumentalists tonny kluften, ivar grydeland and ingar zach. those last two names might also be familiar to followers of nordic jazz and free music via the sofa label, which they founded back in 2000. this album (with its demographically aware title, for the middle class) sounds expertly composed, not at all the wailing excursion into the outer reaches of improvisation you might have expected. the appearance of a wise child begins with a backbone of high tempo shuffling percussion coupled with a subtle layering of drones and abstract instrumental textures only to expand over the course of its fifteen minutes into a glorious post-rock monolith complete with free-time acoustic guitar meanderings, spluttering electronics and a plucked bassline that gels the whole thing together at the pieces crescendo. fans of tapes rideau album, listen up. things only get better on serious like a pope, a glacial, mournful organ and lap steel blues dirge interspersed with rasps of bowed percussion. the epic twenty-two minute centrepiece, add a key of humanity kicks off with the sort of chaos youd hear in an early supersilent recording albeit with added banjo before huntsville take things down several notches for the acoustic guitar natural harmonics of melon, which drifts along with the barest of accompaniment from field recordings, lulling organ and a exquisitely sensitive double-bass part. a real album of contrasts, for the middle classes is a masterful improv record and a further confirmation of rune grammofons unwavering quality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50490863550795,"sku":"278163","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8d663496-edbe-4e4b-b1a1-b9737b56db5b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727677306"},{"product_id":"eco-arches-and-eras","title":"Eco, Arches and Eras","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis double cd set is the second from the trio of Ivar Grydeland, Tonny Kluften and Ingar Zach. One cd is a brand new studio recording where they are joined by the wonderful Sidsel Endresen for a short and beautiful vocal performance. The second cd is an almost hour long recording of the excellent concert they did with Nels Cline and Glenn Kotche from Wilco at the Kongsberg Jazzfestival in 2007. The live recording is top quality and mixed by Giuseppe Ielasi. Grydeland and Zach founded the Sofa label for improvised music in 2000, but in general the Huntsville project contrasts sharply with their other work, and reveals a quite different, more groove-based approach with strong elements of composition. In the last few years their interest in country music and electronic music has developed into a sound they have wanted to investigate further and maybe this has called for descriptions such as abstract drone americana and hypnotic country yoga?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50490982433099,"sku":"306981","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c8f24476-0c45-4265-adaa-4290eb1ad39c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727680158"},{"product_id":"past-increasing-future-receding","title":"Past increasing, future receding","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe distinctive trio Huntsville continues to impress us on its fourth album, \u003ci\u003ePast increasing, future receding\u003c\/i\u003e. This is clearly the group’s most atmospheric and monumental release so far. The excursion into an ever-darker landscape that began with the critically acclaimed LP \u003ci\u003eFor Flowers, Cars and Merry Wars\u003c\/i\u003e continues here. \u003ci\u003ePast increasing, future receding\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded in Emanuel Vigeland’s Mausoleum at Slemdal in Oslo: a dimly lit – almost entirely dark – barrel-vaulted room completely covered with frescos painted by Emanuel Vigeland (1875-1948).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hubro","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50504609857867,"sku":"1144000","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/13954d0b-cf6e-4dbe-af53-aced6298c03e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727807480"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_ba97d7c8_thumbnail_4096_136eff38-60d6-4a8c-9180-4733b38353f6.jpg?v=1727259188","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/huntsville.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}