Chicago Odense Ensemble

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Chicago Odense Ensemble is a unique collaboration that came together in the winter of 2008 while danish musicians Jonas Munk and Jakob Skøtt stayed in Chicago . Through mutual friends a studio session was arranged for the two to improvise and lay down ideas with some of Chicagos finest improvisers, including members of Tortoise and Chicago Underground Collective. Improvisation is not unfamiliar to the two danes, however, as they are more than accustomed to working from spontaneity and freeform structures in psych/kraut/prog unit Causa Sui in their hometown of Odense. During the Chicago studio session hours of loose ideas, grooves and atmospherics were recorded, ranging from loud, intense musical outbursts led by cornetist Rob Mazurek, to delicate, colourful ambiences. Later, the finest moments were edited, re-arranged and mixed by Jonas Munk in his studio in Odense, doing a great deal of cutting and pasting, and adding an occasional dreamy and dubby vibe to the soundscape. The result is something quite unique: a musical blend that exists somewhere in between the aesthetics of impro jazz, hypnotic rock and electronica. The closest reference for this kind of music is probably early 1970s proto-fusion jazz that strived for a similar synthesis of jazz improvisation, psychedelic rock, eastern and african sounds and the use of the studio as a musical tool instead of merely a recording facility. Conceptually this album therefore seems more related to Miles Davis' ventures into el

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Chicago Odense Ensemble

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Chicago Odense Ensemble (feat. Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Jakob Skott & Jonas Munk)

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S/T

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Ege Bamyasi

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Chicago Odense Ensemble (2019)

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2011-Chicago Odense Ensemble [Pharoah]

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Chicago Odense Ensemble (Limited Edition)

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Parallel Motions

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( ) Bonus

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Chicago Odense Ensemble [LP]

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2011 by Alastair

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