DIGITAL PRIMITIVES
The name sums it up – Digital Primitives are both modern and ancient, explorers and researchers, deeply grounded in the past while carving out a new path into the future. The trio digs deep to unearth the roots of American music, fusing a new sound from free jazz, blues, funk, folk, with accents from the music’s African antecedents.

Assif Tsahar – Tenor Sax, Bass Clarinet, Mbira | Cooper Moore – Diddley-Bow , Mouth Bow, voice | Chad Edward Taylor – Percussion, Balafon, Mbira

Universal Indians
This trio presents its own definition of contemporary freely improvised jazz: muscular, passionate, raw and intense music created on the spot, with no distinct leader and with tight, immediate and supportive interplay. Although informed by formative free jazz artists such as pianist Cecil Taylor, saxophonists John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Peter Brotzmann, they demonstrate clear, independent voices of their own.

John Dikeman – saxophones | Jon Rune Strøm – double bass | Tollef Østvang – percussion