Vossabrygg
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Vossabrygg is a live album
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by guitarist Terje Rypdal
Terje Rypdal
Terje Rypdal is a Norwegian guitarist and composer. Most of his music has been released on albums of the German record label ECM. Rypdal has collaborated both as a guitarist and as a composer with other ECM artists such as Ketil Bjørnstad and David Darling...

 recorded in 2003 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Vossabrygg is the latest adventure in a stunning, unraveling labyrinth, created by a master explorer".

Track listing

All compositions by Terje Rypdal
  1. "Ghostdancing" - 18:31
  2. "Hidden Chapter" - 5:39
  3. "Waltz for Broken Hearts/Makes You Wonder" - 10:06
  4. "Incognito Traveller" - 4:04
  5. "Key Witness" - 1:36
  6. "That's More Like It" - 10:07
  7. "De Slagferdige" - 2:38
  8. "Jungeltelegrafen" - 2:39
  9. "You're Making It Personal" - 8:54
  10. "A Quiet Word" - 3:46
    • Recorded at the Vossa Jazz Festival in Norway on April 12, 2003

Personnel

  • Terje Rypdal
    Terje Rypdal
    Terje Rypdal is a Norwegian guitarist and composer. Most of his music has been released on albums of the German record label ECM. Rypdal has collaborated both as a guitarist and as a composer with other ECM artists such as Ketil Bjørnstad and David Darling...

     — electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

  • Palle Mikkelborg
    Palle Mikkelborg
    Palle Mikkelborg , is a Danish jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and record producer. He started playing professionally in 1960, and has since been a dominant figure on the Danish and international progressive jazz scene...

     — trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

    , synthesizer
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

  • Bugge Wesseltoft
    Bugge Wesseltoft
    Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft is a Norwegian jazz musician, pianist, composer and producer. He has his own label named Jazzland Records. In the 1990s, Bugge has made a transition from Nordic jazz traditions exemplified by the ECM record label to a style sometimes referred to as "future jazz" or...

     — electric piano
    Electric piano
    An electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...

    , synthesizer
  • Ståle Storløkken — Hammond organ
    Hammond organ
    The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...

    , electric piano, synthesizer
  • Marius Rypdal — electronics, samples
    Sampler (musical instrument)
    A sampler is an electronic musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer but, instead of generating sounds, it uses recordings of sounds that are loaded or recorded into it by the user and then played back by means of a keyboard, sequencer or other triggering device to perform or...

    , turntable
    Turntable
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    s
  • Bjørn Kjellemyr — electric bass
    Electric Bass
    Electric bass can mean:*Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass*Electric bass guitar*Bass synthesizer*Big Mouth Billy Bass, a battery-powered singing fish...

    , acoustic bass
    Acoustic bass
    The term acoustic bass may refer to one of the following bass instruments:*Double bass - an upright contrabass violin*Acoustic bass guitar - the acoustic version of the bass guitar...

  • Jon Christensen
    Jon Christensen
    Jon Christensen is a Norwegian jazz percussionist.In the late 1960s he played alongside Jan Garbarek on several recordings by the composer George Russell....

     — drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Paolo Vinaccia
    Paolo Vinaccia
    Paolo Vinaccia is an Italian composer, jazz drummer and percussionist. He has lived in Norway since 1979.He has worked with Terje Rypdal, Bendik Hofseth, Jan Eggum, Knut Reiersrud and Jonas Fjeld to mention a few...

     — percussion
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