Time to Crystallize Maria Kannegaard & Thomas Strønen

• 1 Time to Crystallize 04:14
• 2 Inventory of Shimmers 04:43
• 3 Spectral Contingencies 03:49
• 4 Virgin Acetylene 03:07
• 5 Confessional Snow 04:08
• 6 Language of Vision 03:49
• 7 Body Immiscible 02:34
• 8 Sunbeam Absorption 02:53
• 9 Benjamin's Aura 04:45
• Total Runtime 34:02

Info zu Time to Crystallize

Since their days at Trondheim’s Jazz Program, they have known each other musically inside out, alternately collaborators and critical mirrors. Their combined range extends from contemporary composition to improvisation, pop, and electronics. With Time to Crystallize, they unveil a dimension of that shared language which has, until now, remained unseen.

Maria Kannegaard, keyboards, piano, electronics
Thomas Strønen, drums-set, percussion, electronics

Maria Kannegaard
Pianist and composer Maria Kannegaard, born in Denmark in 1970, has lived in Norway since she was 10 years old. She began composing as a 5-year-old and studied classical piano for 10 years. Music basic subject at the University of Oslo. At this time she formed her first band playing self-composed music, Alibi (quintet). She began Jazz studies in Trondheim in 1992 as the first female instrumentalist there. She has stayed in Trondheim since her final exam.

Struggling with illness from the age of 23 she has been inactive as a musician intermittently throughout her career. She recorded her first trio album "Breaking the Surface" for the German company ACT in 2000, and since then has released a number of albums, and participated in numerous others. She has played at many festivals, both home and abroad.

In 2010 she received the DnB NOR award and the Kongsberg Jazz Festival's major musician award.

In 2011 she wrote the commissioned concert "Tomorrow And The Porch" for Kongsberg Jazz Festival (the concert was later released on live album in 2017).

She was appointed NTNU Ambassador 2012/2013 by NTNU during Trondheim Jazz Festival in 2012.

She wrote the commissioned work "Før eller siden er det nå" for Trondheim Jazz Festival and Moldejazz 2013 (the concert was released on live album in 2017).

She received NOPA's music award for 2019 for the work "Nådeslås".

She was nominated for the Spellemann Prize (Norwegian Grammy) in 2019 in the jazz class for the solo album "Nådeslås".

She won the Spellemann Prize in 2020 in the jazz class for the Trio album "Sand i en vik".

Thomas Strønen
(born 1972) is founder and leader of the Norwegian/British band FOOD, with British sax player Iain Ballamy. Food is now a duo (from being a quartet with Mats Eilertsen and Arve Henriksen) and also invite musicians to join in. Nils Petter Molvær, Jan Bang and Christian Fennesz has played recently. Foods 6th record just came out on ECM now, with Fennesz and Molvær. Humcrush ia a duo with keyboardist Ståle Storløkken (and sometimes Sidsel Endresen) The ECM recording group Parish is with ace Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson, Fredrik Ljungkvist and Mats Eilertsen. Pohlitz (Rune Grammofon) is a percussion/ electronics project completely without drums, with focus on details and melodic elements. Strønen also writes music for string quartet and fall 2007, pohlitz performed his own compositions for string quartet ( Mr. McFalls Chamber) and percussion/ electronics at different venues in UK to celebrate Edvard Grieg. A record with music for strings, piano and saxophone has just been mixed. More info to come! Meadow, a new band with Tore Brunborg and John Taylor released its debut- record on Hecca records last fall. New solo/ pohlitz record is on its way. also....a new live- record with Humcrush and Sidsel Endresen.

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