André Roligheten - tenor saxophone Andreas Wildhagen - drums Jonas Cambien - piano

Jonas Cambien Trio

Andreas Wildhagen - drums - (Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit, Nakama)

André Roligheten - reeds - (Gard Nilssen Acousitc Unity, Susanne Sundfør)

Jonas Cambien - piano and compositions - (Platform, Karokh)

Belgian-born pianist Jonas Cambien has been living in Oslo since 2008, and leads his trio with two Norwegian natives, André Roligheten on reeds, and Andreas Wildhagen on drums.

Jonas Cambien Trio has performed on some of Norways major jazz stages, has toured in Europe, and released its debut record A Zoology of the Future on the Portuguese cult label Clean Feed in 2016, to critical acclaim. Their next studio album 'We Must Mustn't We' is scheduled to release on Clean Feed in March 2018. The album has been recorded and produced by Morten Qvenild, a Norwegian pianist/producer know from many important Norwegian act as In the Country, Susanna & the Magical Orchestra, Jaga Jazzist, The Shining and the National Bank.

Jonas Cambien has a particular view of the way improvisation and written material can intertwine. Influenced by textures and methods of free improvised music, his compositions function as a sort of toolbox with a limited set of surprisingly simple ideas that form a starting point for complex improvisation and interplay. Out of abstract landscapes, a collage of recognizable rhythmic and melodic elements emerge, drawn back into abstraction by obsessive repetition.

One can hear a broad range of references, from jazz to contemporary music to folk music from non-existing countries, revealing the diverse backgrounds in which the musicians have been working. Drummer Andreas Wildhagen provides energetic rhythms with a healthy dose of free jazz, and reed player André Roligheten orchestrates with a broad pallet of sounds on bass clarinet and saxophones. On occasions Roligheten plays tenor- and soprano saxophone simultaneously, making his horns sound like an african brass band, and making the band sound much larger than a trio. A solo by Cambien can go to Ligeti-land, revealing his classical background, and patterns of prepared piano sound like small malfunctioning machines.

John Dikeman has performed with everyone from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the Cairo Symphony Orchestra to Jameszoo with the Metropole Orkest. He also has regular groups with William Parker and Hamid Drake, is a founding member of Cactus Truck, and is a member of the Dutch Collective Doek. He was said to have the "most powerful voice in the Dutch jazz music of the last decade" In Jazzism magazine.