FREE FALL
Havard Wiik - piano
Ingebrigt Haker Flaten - bass
Ken Vandermark - clarinet
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.
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 smalltownsuperjazz. 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.
Free Fall has plans for a series of concerts in Norway during 2005, and a tour of Europe and the North America in 2006.
MORE INFO: Ken Vandermark
RECORDINGS:
2005 "Amsterdam Funk" Smalltown Superjazz
2003 “Furnace” Wobbly Rail
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