Friends and Neighbors

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Scandinavian powerhouse Friends & Neighbors make an auspicious return with Circles, their sixth full-length release, brimming – as you might expect from an outfit borrowing its moniker from a lesser-known Ornette Coleman classic – with dexterous, hard-edged improvisations, unapologetically taking influence from the fearless New Thing movement of the 1960s and early 70s.

But Friends & Neighbors’ bold mandate has always extended beyond the realms of mere homage. Releases such as No Beat Policy , What’s Wrong?  and The Earth Is # testify to the band’s remarkable propensity for reshaping the seismic innovations of Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, to instigate incendiary and decidedly contemporary admixtures bristling with vital energy and invention, brokering a robust accordance between reverence and insurgency.

PERSONNEL:

• André Roligheten - (tenor saxophone)
• Thomas Johansson - (trumpet)
• Oscar Grönberg - (piano)
• Jon Rune Strøm - (double bass)
• Tollef Østvang - (drums and percussion)

Recorded December 14th and 15th, 2022.

TRACKS:

• 01) Cecil
• 02) Circles
• 03) Ghost March
• 04) Son
• 05) Charles
• 06) Hymn Infinitum
• 07) Latin Phonetics