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Recorded by Dag Erik Johansen and Kai Andersen at Athletic Sound, Halden, Norway, on December 14th and 15th, 2022.
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By Stephen Graham https://www.marlbank.net/
Long established Scandi group Friends and Neighbors return here with their very accessible take on a heritage free-jazz style, their well considered originals grounded in the spirit of titans of free jazz from Ornette Coleman to Cecil Taylor and far beyond. The improvisations spool out from some very strong heads and you get a lot of bluesiness and sense of the roots of the music that Ornette and others took from early jazz. Tenorist André Roligheten's solo at the beginning of 'Son' is a great high point of the album and the title track too has a winning coherence to it. We also liked the serene piano contribution from Oscar Grönberg on the woozy 'Hymn Infinitum'. Simply miles better than a lot of current free-jazz out there at the moment, the ragged, rip-roaring fervour Friends and Neighbors generate is infectious.
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By Mark Corroto https://www.allaboutjazz.com/circles-friends-and-neighbors-clean-feed
By Roz Milner https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/742869638125436928/friends-neighbors-circles-clean-feed
Tor Hammerø (no) https://www.nettavisen.no/kjendis/friends-neighbors-circles/r/5-95-1746646
Jan Granlie (dk) https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/friends-neighbors-5/
