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01. Vanessa - Sun Walk
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02. Vanessa - Summer Poem
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03. Vanessa - Street Talk
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04. Vanessa - Fragmomentum
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ARTIST
VANESSA
TITLE
Black And White
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
THE ROUNDTABLE
CATALOG #
SIR 024LP
SIR 024LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
3/17/2023
Reissue, originally released in 1976. Existing somewhere between the post-psychedelic period of
Soft Machine
and the electric funk of
Herbie Hancock's Headhunters
,
Black And White
, from Norway's
Vanessa
is without question a formidable beast of a jazz-rock record. A potent brew of sonic experimentation and pulsating off-kilter groove. Taking their name from the genus of Nymphalidae butterfly, Vanessa was founded in 1971 by saxophonist
Svend Undseth
and pianist
Frode Holm
, the founder of the Oslo record store turned imprint, Compendium Records. Unsurprisingly analogous to the music championed across the Compendium catalog,
Black And White
is clearly influenced by the UK Canterbury scene, highlighted by Compendium's focus on the recordings of Soft Machine alumni
Hugh Hopper
and
Elton Dean
. Vanessa's spirit also lies synonymous with the collective pedigree on the label's roster including British progressive jazz stalwart
Keith Tippett
and
Mirage
(a UK group consisting of ex-members of
Centipede
and
The Mike Westbrook Orchestra
), together with the avant-rock collective
Henry Cow
and the experimental synthesizer-jazz of US ex-pat
Joe Gallivan
(together with
Charles Austin
). Often dubbed the "Compendium house band" owing to Holm's association with the label, the Vanessa sound is inherently familiar yet undeniably original. Each of the album's four long compositions are a meld of complex angular jazz laced with swirling electronic textures -- furious rhythms that surge in intoxicating intensity before easing into fluid passages of soulful post-bop. The dichotomy of these styles plants the group firmly into radical new jazz territory alongside their Canterbury contemporaries. Despite their brief existence, the band, alongside the label left an indelible mark on Norwegian jazz-rock and the headier side of European progressive music at large. Transferred and restored from the original master tape.
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