WIBUTEE:
EIGHT DOMESTIC CHALLENGES
2001
Wibutee – Eight Domestic Challenges (2001)
Håkon Kornstad (saxophones, flutes, fluteonet), Per Zanussi (basses), Wetle Holte (drums, electronics) and Sternklang (electronics).
Wibutee came together in the heady trip-hopping daze of the mid 90`s, blending playful jazz saxophone, vocals and nu-beats and vibes with a distinct Norwegian flavour; a suggestive melting pot of warm jazz chanson and ice cool electronica their initial recipe for success.
Their first recording Newborn Thing (Jazzland) was released in 1999, featuring vocalist Live Maria Roggen and composer/jazz keyboardist Erlend Skomsvoll. Wibutee has since toured extensively with this line-up throughout 1999 and 2000, playing the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival in New York, Istanbul Jazz Festival, MusikTriennale Köln, Vienna Jazz and several clubs and festivals in Scandinavia.
Always pushing forward into new musical frontiers, the sound of Wibutee, dark and deep yet effortlessly groovy…their new sonic adventures also feature one of Norway’s well respected electronica artists Sternklang.
Wibutee are continually gaining recognition as one of Norway’s most exciting live bands. Wibutee is signed to Norway’s cutting edge, future-jazz label Jazzland, alongside other prominent Norwegian musicians like Bugge Wesseltoft, Audun Kleive, Sidsel Endresen and Eivind Aarset. They recently joined forces on Bugge Wesseltoft’s last tour in France playing six well received dates including the celebrated Batofar Club in Paris. They have also toured Germany, with concerts in Halle, Hannover and Cologne.
The new album Eight Domestic Challenges (Jazzland) is scheduled for international release during October 2001 and to be distributed in Europe and Japan on Universal Classics & Jazz. The music for their new album was essentially inspired and created during the band’s intense touring in France and Germany, with the raw material further developed at Bugge Wesseltoft’s Oslo based studios earlier this year. Finally Eight Domestic Challenges was mixed by one of Norway’s new “future jazz” hot shot producers, Reidar Skår who has also contributed on Nils Petter Molvær’s latest seminal jazz albums.
Eight Domestic Challenges also represents something new in Norwegian jazz; the basis of the material was totally improvised, – it was only in the post-production stage that the eventual composistion of the music really took place. The CD contains 8 tracks, with a total of 45 spell-binding and timeless minutes.
Are you up for the challenge? Wibutee certainly are…
