Improvised Music From Norway and Malaysia

STUDIO FUNCTION
RM20 + 1 Drink
9pm

-A COLLABORATION-
RAW Art Space & The Gaslight KL

IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM NORWAY & MALAYSIA/ // /

Adrian Løseth Waade, Christian Meaas Svendsen and Andreas Wildhagen are three young Norwegians
involved in a big range of different kinds of improvised music. They play together in Svendsen’s project
Nakama together with piano player Ayumi Tanaka and vocalist Agnes Hvizdalek. All five of them are
members of the Nakama Records-collective, a fairly young label releasing experimental music in which one
or more of the members are involved. Adrian, Christian and Andreas will be representing the collective on
this collaboration tour together with Malaysian Yong Yandsen and Siew-Wai Kok.
www.nakamarecords.no


Adrian Løseth Waade

Adrian is a violinist/composer known from groups such as Skadedyr, Trondheim Jazz-Orchestra and the
Swedish/Norwegian quartet Bone Machine. Adrian is looking to develop the violin as a tool for both free and
structured improvisation, and create frameworks in order to make the instrument sound in new, interesting
ways. He incorporates both old and new, rhythmic and classical music in his work.

Andreas Wildhagen

Andreas can be summed up as an open-minded and flexible musician. The projects he is involved with
display a wide range of musical and dynamic output: Intricate improvisations with Lana trio, extreme bursts
of energy in Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit or beat oriented modern jazz with Mopti and Bendik Baksaas.
To Andreas, diversity has never been a goal in itself, however the urge to explore new areas of music has
always been there. Because creativity and intuition is always flowing and moving, never stopping in one
place, it is the same way with the music he plays.

Christian Meaas Svendsen

Christian is the founder of Nakama Records and the leader of the band Nakama. He is also known from
groups such as Mopti, Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit and Duplex. Christian is aiming towards becoming a
distinctive yet flexible musician, and is working on finding ways to approach musical material through new
ways of improvising. Although he is a firm believer that any creative output stands strong on its own terms,
he also feels that music is a powerful tool to make a change in this world. His ambition is to connect the
classical, contemporary and the free, rhythmic music tradition, and reach beyond the various imaginative
borders created by human society and modern culture.
www.christianmeaassvendsen.com