Hilmar Jensson

Freysteinn Gíslason: Að einhverju/To somewhere

by Glenn Astarita
December 9, 2024

Emerging from Iceland's volcanic landscape--a land where glaciers and geysers conspire to create heavenly magic--Freysteinn arrives with their third sonic missive, Að einhverju/To somewhere. This is not your grandmother's jazz album; it is a musical expedition that pirouettes between traditional Icelandic folk whispers, rock and a progressive jazz swagger. Along with the melodic complexities of prominent guitarist Hilmar Jensson, the band crafts a soundscape that's equal parts cerebral and visceral. The title track “Að einhverju/To Somewhere" unfurls like ...

Hilmar Jensson: Transparence

by Mike Jurkovic
May 1, 2021

Given that not one of the eight tracks definingTransparence, the darkly compelling debut from Norway's Hitra, runs longer than six minutes, the quartet covers a lot of ground. Like a ticket out of isolation, Transparence transports your homebound head to the grey expanse of Northern Atlantic skies. Billowing by design, their clouds of music make you feel like you're floating above rain shadows and fjords. Bonding together at Oslo's Norwegian Academy of Music, Hitra pairs Italian pianist Alessandro ...

Hitra: Transparence

by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
February 22, 2021

Immaginiamo un'isola chiamata Hitra, circondata da infinite altre isole e scogliere, e percossa dai gelidi venti del Mar di Norvegia, che si insinuano fra le barche e nelle case dei pescatori, tagliano i volti dei pochi vecchi abitanti del luogo, fino a infrangersi contro i monumentali fiordi secolari. “Isola," dal latino “terra insula," a sua volta composto dalla particella “in" ("dentro," “in") e dal termine “salum" ("alto mare"), quindi letteralmente “terra in mezzo al mare," da cui “isolamento," la condizione ...

Hilmar Jensson: Ditty Blei

by Mark Corroto
June 8, 2004

Icelandic guitarist Hilmar Jensson is back. This time it’s personal.

Sorry, I’ve been watching movie trailers again. Anyway, this one is in motion just the same. Jensson follows up his 2002 disc Tyft with his unique extended guitar antics on Ditty Blei. Where his previous outing favored improvisation over melody, this disc showcases a bit more structure and groove.

Jensson adds bassist Trevor Dunn and trumpeter Herb Robertson to his Tyft lineup of Andrew D’Angelo ...

Hilmar Jensson: Tyft

by Mark Corroto
February 1, 2003

Once the line that demarcates musical genres has been erased, there ain’t no returning to the farm. Paris (or a virtual Paris) has been seen, and one can never be the same. So says Icelandic guitarist Hilmar Jensson.

His trio with drummer Jim Black and saxophonist Andrew D’Angelo shares in the belief that creative music (once called ‘jazz’) cannot ignore post-millenium sounds: noise, samples, rock, and noise. Did I mention noise? Within the 47 minutes that is ...

Tyft trio and Terje Isungset/Hilmar Jensson duo at Kvarteret, Bergen, presented by the Bergen Student Radio

Source: All About Jazz
November 6, 2003

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Hilmar Jensson/Jim Black/Andrew D'Angelo CD release at Tonic

Source: All About Jazz

Saturday November 9, 8:00 pm, Tonic (107 Norfolk St., Manhattan)

Music from Hilmar Jensson's new CD Tyft (released October 2002)

Hilmar Jensson, guitars and electronics Jim Black, drums, melodica, electronics & virtual instruments Andrew D'Angelo, alto sax, bass clarinet & electronics

Hilmar is the guitarist in Jim's AlasNoAxis band, and these three musicians have been friends and musical associates since meeting in Boston in 1990 (the early days of Jim, Andrew and Chris Speed's band Human ...
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