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The Core
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Member Since4/20/2006
Band Websitehttp://www.thecore.no
Band MembersJørgen Mathisen - Saxophones * Erlend Slettevoll - Piano * Steinar Raknes - Bass * Espen Aalberg - Drums
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Golonka Love

The Core - Golonka Love
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Label: Moserobie
Year: 2008
Price: 16.90 EUR




The Core is releasing a double album on Moserobie these days. The music is recorded during our tours in Poland, and contain lots of music, selected from three very different concerts.

The main concert is a electric show we did in Szczecin, and is the first release with our new saxophone player, Jørgen Mathisen. The other two concerts are from earlier tours, where Kjetil Møster plays the saxophone. Some tracks also features polish DJ Lenar.


Office Essentials

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Label: Jazzland
Year: 2007
Price: 14.90 EUR




This album was recorded during our tour in USA in 2006, and released in 2007.

Kjetil Møster - Saxophone
Erlend Slettevoll - Piano
Steinar Raknes - Bass
Espen Aalberg - Drums

Reviews
  • "While the group touches chaotic terrains it never loses its melodic base, and each player has enough room to articulate and develop its spare theme." (...) "Warmly recommended."

The Indian Core

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Label: Grappa
Year: 2007
Price: 14.90 EUR




The Indian Core was recorded live in Trondheim during our "Rikskonsertene" tour in November 2006. The album features Fateh Ali - Sitar, Kanchman Babbar - Flutes, and Prasenjit Mitra - Tabla.

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Blue Sky

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Label: Jazzaway
Year: 2006
Price: 14.90 EUR




This album features Nils-Olav Johansen on guitars.

Kjetil Møster - Saxophones
Nils-Olav Johansen - Guitars
Erlend Slettevoll - Piano
Steinar Raknes - Bass
Espen Aalberg - Drums

Reviews
  • "Blue Sky, their second release (following 2004’s Vision), features a rock-edged, avant-acoustic sound that manages, despite the busyness, to leave breath and space. Playing with fiery finesse, the group easily navigates the rhythmic subtleties of Aalberg’s tunes."
  • "Alle jeg har snakket med om denne plata har kun vært overbegeistret. Alle omtaler jeg har lest er udelt positive. Det er klart at da jeg satte Blue Sky i spilleren, hadde jeg høye forventninger. Og det tok ikke lang tid før disse var infridde og vel så det."
  • "The Core er utvidet, forsterket og fornyet – men kjerneverdiene er beholdt."

Vision

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Label: Jazzaway
Year: 2004
Price: 14.90 EUR




Our very first album. Recorded in Trondheim, and released in late 2004 on Jazzaway records.

Kjetil Møster - Saxophones
Erlend Slettevoll - Piano
Steinar Raknes - Bass
Espen Aalberg - Drums

Reviews
  • "Alt er originalstoff, med Aalberg som flittigste komponist, og energien spruter fra første tone. Møster legger ut på hver eneste solo som var den et kamikazeprosjekt, Slettevold akkordbanker tangentene i stormbyge etter stormbyge, Raknes/Aalberg er høyt og lavt i dumpe, mørke detonasjoner, og musikken lever, rå, vill og vakker."
  • "The Core har definitivt lykkes i å overføre livefølelsen til sitt debutalbum. Det kan også virke fornuftig at bandet har ventet så lenge med sitt første album. Selv om det går over stokk og stein har de full kontroll, og noen år med konserter på baken har gjort The Core til et UTROLIG tight band. Intet mindre. Vision burde absolutt appellere til et publikum som ellers ikke er opptatt av jazzrelatert musikk, og det finnes knapt noen bedre inngangsport for dem som vil utvide horisonten en smule."
Record LabelJazzland/Jazzaway Records/GRAPPA
Type of LabelIndie


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The Core is one of Norways most energetic and rough jazz bands at the moment. They have played at all the big jazz festivals in the country and been applauded loudly for their unique energy combined with their high quality skills. The music is rooted in acustic modal jazz from the 60s, and The Core combines this music with more contemporary grooves rooted in funk and rock. The music is generous and lets the listener be part of a high-energy journey. It is also beautiful and sober. This, combined with extraordinary stage skills, makes the core something really special on the jazzscene today

A quote from a review of one of their concerts in Oslo, in October 2004, gives a good description of what to expect from this group, who made their first public performance in 2001: "The Core has everything that jazz in 2004 should have: Energy, generosity and an unstoppable youthfulness giving the impression that each concert could be the last." The members of The Core comprise some of Norways new leading artists in the jazz genre.

The Core started in 1999 at the jazz academy in Trondheim, Norway. Here the quartet, consisting of Steinar Raknes on double bass, saxplayer Kjetil Möster, pianist Erlend Slettevoll and composer and drummer Espen Aalberg, musically fell in love. Their first album Vision has been a great success, and the rewives had been fantastic. Here the band has found a lot of inspiration from Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler and last but not least John Coltranes heritage from the 60s. In the international magazine, JazzTimes, Christopher Porter has this to say about "Vision": "Vision’s five tunes are all uptempo and fierce, but not in a free-jazz way. The band is simply on fire and doesn’t want to douse the flames by cooling out on the track, which is fine by me." The Core just relased the 2nd recording, Blue sky, witch got the same fantastic reviews as the debut Vision


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Phy





Jun 30 2009 10:28 AM

Hi you guys! We just wanted to let you know that we..re playing a gig at studentersamfundet, Edgar, the 9th of July, 22.00. New songs + psyched band = good times. See you there!
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Jun 29 2009 4:27 PM

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Jun 18 2009 6:26 AM

Hi! Just uploaded a video from a solo-gig i did recently to my space, with the brilliant Pekka Stokke on visuals. Feel free to check it out!
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Jun 8 2009 9:23 AM

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May 24 2009 8:04 PM


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May 18 2009 3:02 PM

HI, thanks for the friendship... Nice to meet You. You can leave your message or your comment. God bLESS YOU. Jessica Dorsey
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May 7 2009 1:45 PM

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Vi vill med denna lilla kommentar bara påminna om vår Festivalkampanj som nu har startats. Vi har satt ihop flera mycket billiga paket till de band och bolag som behöver trycka t-shirts, eller annan merchandise, till sommarens festivaler och spelningar. Besök vår webbsida redan idag för mer info.

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Apr 26 2009 5:09 PM

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Apr 12 2009 11:13 PM

Hey :) Did you check out our songs? Happy Easter and have a rockin' week!
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Apr 6 2009 2:11 PM

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Mar 26 2009 3:34 PM

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Mar 22 2009 5:30 AM

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Jan 26 2009 9:49 AM

THX for the add, best wishes from Poland ;)
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Jan 18 2009 10:34 PM

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new tracks on my space!!
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Jan 14 2009 11:01 AM

Hi, sorry to barge in here like this, but we..ve just uploaded some new songs, you..re welcome to come and listen. You won..t regret it! More details on the release of our new album will follow, Stay tuned! -Juxtaposed
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