Paal Nilssen-Love

• DIGIPACK EDITION

A fearless contributor to improvised collaborations with international scope dating back to the ’90s, drummer Paal Nilssen-Love continues a dizzying release schedule, this time with New Japanese Noise on his own PNL imprint.

The Norwegian drummer’s success might be tied more to his ability to find sympathetic players across an international landscape than it is cultural exchange. But the results, if acrid improv’s your thing, really are indisputable. For the live New Japanese Noise—a companion to the simultaneously issued New Brazilian Funk, an album dealing more with spontaneity than its title might intimate—the bandleader draws from an expansive pool of Japanese noiseniks, including reedist Akira Sakata and Toshiji Mikawa, a member of the all-spleen Hijokaidan.

PERSONNEL:

• Akira Sakata - alto saxophone, Bb clarinet, voice
• Kiko Dinucci - electric guitar
• Kohei Gomi - electronics
• Paal Nilssen-Love - drumsV
• Toshiji Mikawa - electronics

Recorded live in Denmark, July 4th 2018

TRACKS:

• 01. Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves
• 02. Up the Line to Death
• 03. Eats, Shites and Leaves
• 04. The Bone People
• 05. Birdsong