In 1978, Danish percussion master Marilyn Mazur founded the bold, innovative Primi Band, an all-female music-theater ensemble that drew from a deep well of primal energy and experimental audacity. Four decades later, Mazur reinvents the core concepts in an adventurous new fashion with Shamania, a gathering of ten of Scandinavia’s most inventive and respected female musicians.
Whereas Primi Band culled its members from risk-taking but non-professional musicians, Shamania comprises ten highly respected (but equally daring) artists from the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian avant-jazz scenes. Their stunning debut album is a vivid combination of primeval forces and virtuosic musicianship, fiercely original imaginings and deeply organic emotions, communal energies and singular voices.
Lotte Anker : sax (DK)
Josefine Cronholm : vocal and perc. (SE/DK)
Sissel Vera Pettersen : sax and vocal (NO)
Hildegunn Øiseth : trumpet and goat horn (NO)
Lis Wessberg : trombone (DK)
Makiko Hirabayashi : keyboards (Japan/DK)
Ellen Andrea Wang : bass (NO)
Anna Lund : drums (SE)
Lisbeth Diers : percussion (DK)
Marilyn Mazur : composer/leader, percussion, balaphone, kalimba (DK)
Everyone additionally sings and plays percussion
1. New Secret 5:59 solo : Lotte Anker
2. Rytmeritual 5:01 solo : Josefine Cronholm
3. CHAAS 5:40 soli : Hildegunn Øiseth & Makiko Hirabayashi
4. Old Melody 5:30
5. Fragments 1:36
6. Crawl Out & Shine 3:27 solo : Lis Wessberg
7. Behind Clouds 3:30 solo : Marilyn Mazur
8. Time Ritual 3:06
9. Shabalasa 4:54 soli : Marilyn Mazur & Lis Wessberg
10. Heartshaped Moon 5:43 soli : Makiko Hirabayashi & Sissel Vera
11. Surrealistic Adventure 3:12 soli : Sissel Vera & Lisbeth Diers
12. Momamajobas 1 0:20
13. Talk for 2 2:06 duo : Lotte Anker & Marilyn Mazur
14. Momamajobas 2 0:23
15. Kalimbaprimis 3:52
16. Space Entry Dance 4:24 soli : Hildegunn Øiseth & Lotte Anker
All compositions by Marilyn Mazur except :
Fragments by Shamania
Surrealistic Adventure by Mazur, Diers, Pettersen
Talk for 2 by Mazur, Anker
Produced by Marilyn Mazur
Recorded by Jan Erik Kongshaug in Rainbow Studio, Oslo May 13+14, 2017
Mixed august 2017 by Jan Erik Kongshaug
Mastered by Martin Abrahamsen, Rainbow Studio 2018
Cover painting “The Red Forest” by Bitte Cecilie Bang
Graphic art / Layout by Petulia Mattioli
Executive Producer for RareNoiseRecords : Giacomo Bruzzo
© + ℗ RareNoiseRecords 2019
