https://youtu.be/--UZg3lyfPI
https://youtu.be/_vDV5BIi01g
Ned Ferm (ts, cl, fl, vln, perc, el-p)
Rune Kjeldsen (g)
Anders ”AC” Christensen (b)
Kenny Wollesen (d, perc, p, vib, mm)

Editor's info:
HEART IN HAND, the new album and first official collaboration by American multi-instrumentalists Kenny Wollesen and Ned Ferm on Stunt Records, is a deep and soulful journey into genre-bending musical territory through folk-inspired compositions and inventive interludes.

Ferm and Wollesen had previously worked together as sidemen in various constellations on tours around Europe and had planned to make an album together in Italy just before Covid reared its ugly head. It was a project that they had written about and had been looking forward to doing together for quite some time, but like so many other musical and artistic plans that had been made for 2020 and beyond, it became a casualty of the once-in-a-century pandemic - indefinitely postponed with the understanding that it could easily become an “if, not when” situation with so much uncertainty in the world. Fortunately for listeners, Kenny and Ned - who have both appeared on several Stunt Records releases in the past - seized the moment in August 2021, just after Wollesen had finished teaching at the famous Summer Session jazz workshop in Denmark.

The core compositions with the quartet were recorded at the Farvemøllen studio in Northwest Copenhagen, and overdubs were added by both co-leaders during the session. Then in late 2021 and early 2022, Wollesen sent Ferm some interludes which the woodwind specialist then added layers to. The whole project, co-produced by Ferm and engineering/production wizard Mads Mølgaard, uses the interludes as connective tissue in between the songs from the first session, creating a musical odyssey that is at the same time both diverse and cohesive.

Wollesen is heard on drums, percussion, hand-claps, piano, and electric vibraphone, while Ferm appears on tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute, violin, percussion, background vocals, and Fender Rhodes - in layered arrangements exploring extreme dynamic peak.......
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