Biography
Herb Robertsons work with Tim Berne, Bobby Previte, Bill Frisell, David
Sanborn, Paul Motian, Barry Guy’s New Orchestra, Marc Ducret, New Jungle
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Orchestra, John Zorn, Roswell Rudd, Rashied Ali, Ray Anderson, Dewey Redman,
Evan Parker, Charlie Haden Music Liberation Orchestra and so many others has placed
him as a unique musician and carismatic improviser within Jazz and new improvised
music. His melodic and sonorous approach draws freely on the entire tradition from
Armstrong via Davis to Barry Guy, Gustafson, and their music of today.
In recent years Mark Solborg has been playing a number of prestigeous European
Jazzvenues and festivals in Copenhagen, Århus, Oslo, Grenoble, Strassbourg, Berlin,
Leipzig, Vilnius, Beijing a.o. leading or co-leading the groups Revolver, Ventilator, moLd,
Solborg/Eilertsen/Bruun and of course Mark Solborg 4. His work as a composer and
guitarist has been grammy-nominated, awarded by The Danish Arts Foundation and
has received wide international acknowlegdement. A personal, unpolished and
unconventional approach, whether dealing with odd-meter grooves, contrapuntal lines,
complex harmony or just a couple of simple chords, is a cherished ambition and trademark.
So far NOD is the 9th release from the Solborg workshop.
Solborg: “ I really like the way you slowly bend an idea into something new.
..all of a sudden it’s something else and you never noticed when it started
changing..”
Robertson: “oh - you mean mutation.....”
In 2008 the guitarist Mark Solborg invited the American trumpeter Herb Robertson
to Denmark to join his quartet. During those days they also recorded the duo-album
“NOD”.
Melodic, fabulating and epic landscapes unfold in a beautiful, intimate and - now and
again - minimalistic universe with ample room for detail and Robertsons unique sound.
The music is born in an intuitive space that might have more to do with an approach to
life than a specific musical genre.
NOD is mutual understanding and respect, NOD is a device for nocturnal
observation, NOD is the wasteland to which Cain was banished, NOD is the Land of
Dreams and mutating imagination..
During the working process with NOD we stumbled upon these verses that struck
resonance with both of us.
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