muzycy:
Ingebrigt Haker Flaten: bass
Ken Vandermark: reeds
Haavard Wiik: piano

Editor’s info:
The trio Free Fall was organized by bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, reedist Ken Vandermark, and pianist Haavard Wiik in 2001 as an opportunity to work together in a chamber music environment without percussion. Inspired in part by Jimmy Giuffre's classic group with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow, the group quickly found its own way of working with velocity, space, sound and time, after it first met. The trio has always only performed their original compositions, and released its first album of this material, called “Furnace,” to great acclaim in 2002. The album was released on Mac`s (of the punkrock group Superchunk) jazz label, Wobbly Rail (an imprint of Merge Records).

After playing in Europe and the United States, Free Fall went back into the studio during November, 2004, to record its second album, this time for the Norwegian label Smalltown Superjazzz. Entitled “Amsterdam Funk,” the new album highlights the development of communication and compositional strategies by the band over the last few years. In addition, the recording includes freely improvised performances for the first time. On the tour previous to these studio sessions the band used pure improvisations as their encores, and it made a good deal of sense to include Free Fall's approach to this kind of material on “Amsterdam Funk” as it represents a parallel and equally powerful way of performing by the trio.

Audio Video; 2005-10

"...To drugie nagranie tria Ken Vandermark - Havard Wiik - Ingebrigt Haken Flaten. Koncepcja tria o

mocno pastelowym brzmieniu, wprost nawiązywała do dokonań Jimmy'ego Giuffre. Tutaj także są one

obecne ale sama muzyka ulega rozwinięciu. Pojawiają się, dalej osadzone w pastelowych tonacjach

(Vandermark gra tutaj tylko na klarnetach), dysonanse i sonorystyczne wycieczki, a sama muzyczna

koncepcja zdecydowanie bliższa staje się muzyce współczesnej niż formie do jakiej przyzwyczaja nas

jazzowe trio..."