Håvard Volden - Small Lives (2025)
BAND/ARTIST: Håvard Volden
- Title: Small Lives
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: Sauajazz
- Genre: ambient jazz
- Quality: FLAC 16/44100
- Total Time: 00:43:09
- Total Size: 212 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
After years of sonic exploration with guitars and electronics, Håvard Volden has returned to his main instrument with renewed curiosity. On this album, the guitar takes center stage, with alternative tunings and an exploratory approach forming the foundation for a new musical direction.
The music is rooted in jazz but also draws inspiration from early tape music—think Joe Meek, and Luc Ferrari—as well as folk traditions from all over, new age, and the raw energy of experimental rock, like Velvet Underground. The result is a collection of instrumental compositions where guitar, synthesizers, bass, and drums interweave in dynamic interplay. At times, the pieces are loose and expansive; at others, they are rhythmically precise and compressed—like instrumental pop songs with an open structure.
With music that thrives on dynamics and improvisation, most of the album was recorded live in the studio.
This album is an exploration of the guitar’s potential, where echoes and tape machines extend the instrument’s rhythm, resonance, and tonality. A playful, dreamlike, and uncompromising record that embraces the power of collaboration.
Håvard Volden: guitars, synths, field recordings, Revox 77, drums, percussion
Guoste Tamulynaite: synthesizers, sampled instruments
Adrian Myhr: electric bass
Jan Martin Gismervik: drums
Tracklist:
1-1 Håvard Volden;Håvard Volden - Seedling [12:57]
1-2 Håvard Volden;Håvard Volden - Soaring [5:47]
1-3 Håvard Volden;Håvard Volden - From Dirt [3:38]
1-4 Håvard Volden;Håvard Volden - Small Lives [5:52]
1-5 Håvard Volden;Håvard Volden - Dog Happy [7:35]
1-6 Håvard Volden;Håvard Volden - Oryzae [7:19]
The music is rooted in jazz but also draws inspiration from early tape music—think Joe Meek, and Luc Ferrari—as well as folk traditions from all over, new age, and the raw energy of experimental rock, like Velvet Underground. The result is a collection of instrumental compositions where guitar, synthesizers, bass, and drums interweave in dynamic interplay. At times, the pieces are loose and expansive; at others, they are rhythmically precise and compressed—like instrumental pop songs with an open structure.
With music that thrives on dynamics and improvisation, most of the album was recorded live in the studio.
This album is an exploration of the guitar’s potential, where echoes and tape machines extend the instrument’s rhythm, resonance, and tonality. A playful, dreamlike, and uncompromising record that embraces the power of collaboration.
Håvard Volden: guitars, synths, field recordings, Revox 77, drums, percussion
Guoste Tamulynaite: synthesizers, sampled instruments
Adrian Myhr: electric bass
Jan Martin Gismervik: drums
Tracklist:
1-1 Håvard Volden;Håvard Volden - Seedling [12:57]
1-2 Håvard Volden;Håvard Volden - Soaring [5:47]
1-3 Håvard Volden;Håvard Volden - From Dirt [3:38]
1-4 Håvard Volden;Håvard Volden - Small Lives [5:52]
1-5 Håvard Volden;Håvard Volden - Dog Happy [7:35]
1-6 Håvard Volden;Håvard Volden - Oryzae [7:19]
| Jazz | Ambient | FLAC / APE
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