TUNGEMÅL I + II

Mark Solborg Trio feat. Herb Robertson & Evan Parker

Mark Solborg: Electric & Acoustic Guitars 
Mats Eilertsen: Double Bass
Peter Bruun: Drums, Percussion & Kalimba
Herb Robertson: Trumpets, Voice, Kalimba & Pump Organ 
Evan Parker: Tenor & Soprano Saxophone, Kalimba & Gong

Rustle, blast, scratch and howl. The world is noisy (and a great place to live)… 
At Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2011 Danish guitarist and composer Mark Solborg invited the legendary British saxophonist and improviser Evan Parker to join his trio and the fabulous american trumpetplayer Herb Robertson. An unusual and unique meeting across borders and generations was at hand. The group played three exclusive concerts in Copenhagen, one at Århus International Jazzfestival and spent a day in the studio - documenting discoveries made during the concerts. What you hear on The Trees is a selection of what happened that day.

Solborg describes the project as an essential peak in his work with improvised music. The extreme collective awareness of all 5 players, and Parkers deeply rooted aproach, gives the music an almost symphonic caracter - like a walk through an arboretum (a botanical garden of trees). This music is not about oneway soliloquies but a conversation between equal musical landscape-architects. Listen carefully and you will find a curious world of views, light and tales within the sounds and shapes carefully molded by these master musicians.

British pianoplayer and composer par excellence Django Bates has added the very poetic linernotes on The Trees. The album is available digitally, as CD and on a beautiful 180g limited edition LP.

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Album info

Artist: Mark Solborg Trio 
feat. Herb Robertson & Evan Parker
Title: The Trees
Catalogue. no. : ILK199CD / ILK199LP
Label: ILK
Barcode: 5706274003796
Release date: February 7th, 2013

Tracks
1. The Whip 5:50
2. Hophornbeam 5:09
3. Dogwood 2:33
4. Skyrækker No. 1 3:32
5. Oak and The Alder 6:38
6. Skyrækker No. 2 2:04
7. Chestnut and the Woods 7:29
8. Apples, Apples 4:23
9. Dark Boat 4:50
10. Closure 5:18
Total time 47:54

All compositions by Solborg/Eilertsen/Bruun/Robertson/Parker
Except 4. and 6. by Solborg/Parker

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With 12 releases as leader or co. leader and performances at leading European jazzfestivals Solborg has established himself with clear defined imprints on the Danish and International Jazz- and Improv-scene. His production includes both composed and improvised music.

Besides Eillertsen, Parker & Robertson collaborators include Chris Speed, Hank Roberts, Paal Nilssen-Love, Francesco Bigoni, Marc Lohr, Lotte Anker, a.o. Solborgs work as guitarist and composer has recieved substantial international recognition.


Selected reviews:
New York City Jazz Record – Honorable Mentions 2013:
Mark Solborg Trio feat. Herb Robertson & Evan Parker: The Trees (ILK199CD/LP)

“Evan Parker’s circular soprano bubbles up like hot mud in a volcanic puddle or twitters like scratchy birdsong, while Herb Robertson’s loose-lipped, brassy gusts sound like a hyperventilating huntsman breaking the morning stillness. When Solborg turns to the electric guitar he’s capable of wafting mists or, on “Dogwood”, a harsh tangle of barbed wire....”

- Dan Spicer, The Wire, UK

"The Trees is the latest new perspective from which Mark Solborg looks at the world of improvisation, and confirms him as one of the most fervid and intriguing musicians on the European scene."
- Vincenzo Roggero - All about Jazz Italia

"So dunkel und mystisch das Cover, so vital und lichtklar die freien Jazz-Improvisationen des dänischen Bandprojektes "The Trees"... kein Stilbrei, kein Musikramsch, kein atonaler Müll, sondern die Suche nach einer freien, intelligenten Musik nach allen bekannten Mustern. "The Trees" scheint genau dieser Idee (in der nächsten Generation) zu sein."
-www.ragazzi-music.de

"...A high point in Danish Improjazz. The Trees is some of the best Solborg has produced. Music that has it’s own spirit and becomes a living organism, filled with wonder and joy.

My soul, could you wish for more ?"
- Niels Overgaard, Jazznyt.dk

Mark Solborg Trio feat. Robertson & Parker - The Trees

Contemporary Jazz

New Single Out! 
A first peak at the new Maniscalco/Bigoni/Solborg album, CANTO, out on ILK Music June 3rd.

The single "Under Weather" holds a short dense track by Solborg and is available for streaming on all platforms. https://orcd.co/under-weather

Francesco Bigoni  − Tenor & alto saxophone, clarinet 
Mark Solborg  − Guitars, devices & electronics 
Emanuele Maniscalco  − Rhodes, piano & keyboards

We have taken the music to new territories adding warm analogue keys and subtle electronics to the acoustic realm. Very exciting ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

The complete album hits the streets June 3rd in connection with concerts in Copenhagen June 7th at Klub Primi  and in Odense June 8th at Jazzhus Dexter.  

Join the spacewalks.. ♪( ´θ｀)ノ

✺✺✺✺✺✺✺✺✺✺✺✺✺✺✺✺✺✺
Maniscalco/Bigoni/Solborg's general activities and the current album is supported by Statens Kunstfond , Koda, Dansk Musiker Forbund - DMF , JazzDanmark & Musikforlæggerne i Danmark.

Under Weather (Solborg)

RELEASE INFO
Artist: Mark Solborg
Title: BABEL
Release date: November 17 2023
Catalogue#: ILK348
Format: Vinyl & digital

In this next adventure solborg's music is handled by a wonderful and starry gathering of some of scandinavia's finest musicians. 
18 additional interviewed voices, speaking in multiple languages, are integrated into the rich textures of the music, creating a warm and unique garden of fables. 
Contemporary musical conversations like you’ve never heard it before.

Susana Santos Silva · trumpet & tape
Francesco Bigoni · clarinet & tape
Anders Banke · bass clarinet, clarinet, alto flute & tape
Mark Solborg · guitar & electronics
Simon Toldam · piano, keys & tape
Peter Bruun · drums, percussion & tape

BABEL was originally commissioned by KoncertKirken, Organ Sound Art Festival and Jazz i Trekanten, and premiered February 23rd and 24th 2022.

BABEL is released November 17th 2023, digitally and as a limited edition double vinyl with extended artwork.  
A single, FOLK, is out for streaming October 20th 2023.

Folk (Single Version)

Mark Solborg
TUNGEMÅL : Confluencia
Susana Santos Silva
Simon Toldam
Ingar Zach

Tracks:
1. Spoke
2. Southern Swag (6と5)
3. The Wires
4. Cantamos
5. Planes; inward
6. Janus - og sidste ord
7. Friction, bell, bump
8. Planes
9. Pitches and peace

Susana Santos Silva · trumpet
Mark Solborg . guitars & electronics
Simon Toldam · piano & keyboards
Ingar Zach · gran cassa, percussion and transducers (track 2., 3., 4., 6., 8.)

All songs by Mark Solborg, except 9. by Santos Silva, Toldam & Solborg.

Janus


Almut Kühne · voice
Francesco Bigoni · clarinet & motion controlled processing
Mark Solborg · guitar & electronics
+
Axel Dörner · trumpet & electronics

Danish author K.E. Løgstrup writes: “We never have anything to do with another human being
without holding something of their life in our hands.”
Hands are (still) humanity’s primar y physical interface with the world. With them we act, create,
and make physical contact with one another: We caress, strike, kill, signal, give, receive, conduct,
and much more.

In a world where many people interact without ever being in physical contact, we want to highlight
the deeper and more nuanced communication that takes place when we see, touch, and hear each
other in the same space..

Hands contains both fully composed and structured improvisational works. Drawing on composi-
tions, texts, and concepts by all par ticipants, the group explores connections between movement
and sound. With this release, we invite you to a unique musical expression. Contrapuntal works
dispersed over three EP’s — beautiful and intense, from the studio and live concer ts, with added
shor t films. It offers humor and edge, for both laymen and specialists.
Vol 1 holds studio recordings from the island of Møn, DK, Vol 2 contains two larger pieces live
from Koncer tKirken in Copenhagen. Vol. 3 features a guest appearance by legendar y German
trumpeter Axel Dörner, recorded live at LOFT during Cologne Jazzweek 2024.

The versatile chamber trio consists of German vocalist and composer Almut Kühne,
saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Francesco Bigoni, and bandleader, guitarist and composer
Mark Solborg. Over the past years, the group - suppor ted in par t by research funding from the
Goethe-Institut Denmark, the Danish Ar ts Foundation, the expor t fund Neustar t and others - has
developed an intense, contemporar y chamber musical expression across genres, colored by
Kühne’s exceptional voice and surgical precision, Bigoni’s motion-controlled processing, and
Solborg’s prepared 6- and 12-string guitars. Selected performances include Copenhagen Jazz
Festival, Cologne Jazzweek, Nordische Botschaften in Berlin and the Willumsen Museum in
Frederikssund (DK).

Enjoy!

Studio Sessions recorded by John Fomsgaard, Møn, February 2024
Live at KoncertKirken recorded by Mads Killerich July 2023
Live at LOFT recorded by Stefan Deistler, August 2024

Mixed by August Wanngren, John Fomsgaard
and Mark Solborg November 2024 & December 2025

Mastered by Sofia von Hage and Thomas Eberger at Stockholm Mastering March 2026

Cover photos, layout and artwork by Mark Solborg
Press photos by Frank Schemmann
Video by Fredrik Auster

Label, office and PR, Karoliina Virkkunen
Produced by Mark Solborg

Info & contact:
www.solborg.dk
www.ilkmusic.com

This album and general activities are suppor ted by Danish Ar ts
Foundation, Augustinus Fonden, KODA Kultur, Conductors
Association, Danish Ar tists Union, JazzDanmark.

02 Spheegm, O Man-O-Meter! - VOL 1 - STUDIO SESSIONS

Parker solo KK 23 sept 2016

A track from the new album: Solborg 4+4+1

Mark Solborg 4 + 4 piece hornsection + 1 featured soloist. A tour de force from the musical frontline carried by a fabulous rhythm-section performing new contemporary music with an edge.

Lineup:
Anders Banke - tenor saxophone/clarinet/bassclarinet 
Mark Solborg - guitar 
Jeppe Skovbakke - bass 
Bjørn Heebøll - drums 
+ 
Gunnar Halle (NO) - trumpet 
Laura Toxværd - alto saxophone 
Torben Snekkestad (NO) - tenor & soprano saxophone/clarinet 
Jakob Munck - tuba &trombone
+ 
Chris Speed (US) - tenor saxophone & clarinet

The project holds Solborgs compositional ideas for a large hand-picked ensemble with
strong international individualists given a great amount of freedom within a composed framework.Texture and melody, transparency and warmth, composed and improvised are keywords. It’s about mutual intuitive understanding, musical equilibrium and a certain collective approach to joining complex, intricate writing, strong melodies and free organic interplay.

Mrs. Pedersen takes the Tram

New release from Mark Solborg 
feat. Herb Robertson & Evan Parker

Mark Solborg: Electric & Acoustic Guitars 
Mats Eilertsen: Double Bass
Peter Bruun: Drums, Percussion & Kalimba
Herb Robertson: Trumpets, Voice, Kalimba & Pump Organ 
Evan Parker: Tenor & Soprano Saxophone, Kalimba & Gong

Rustle, blast, scratch and howl. The world is noisy (and a great place to live)… 
At Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2011 Danish guitarist and composer Mark Solborg invited the legendary British saxophonist and improviser Evan Parker to join his trio and the fabulous american trumpetplayer Herb Robertson. An unusual and unique meeting across borders and generations was at hand. The group played three exclusive concerts in Copenhagen, one at Århus International Jazzfestival and spent a day in the studio - documenting discoveries made during the concerts. What you hear on The Trees is a selection of what happened that day. 

Solborg describes the project as an essential peak in his work with improvised music. The extreme collective awareness of all 5 players, and Parkers deeply rooted aproach, gives the music an almost symphonic caracter - like a walk through an arboretum (a botanical garden of trees). This music is not about oneway soliloquies but a conversation between equal musical landscape-architects. Listen carefully and you will find a curious world of views, light and tales within the sounds and shapes carefully molded by these master musicians.

British pianoplayer and composer par excellence Django Bates has added the very poetic linernotes on The Trees. The album is available digitally, as CD and on a beautiful 180g limited edition LP.

/////////////////////
Album info

Artist: Mark Solborg Trio 
feat. Herb Robertson & Evan Parker
Title: The Trees
Catalogue. no. : ILK199CD / ILK199LP
Label: ILK
Barcode: 5706274003796
Release date: February 7th, 2013

Tracks
1. The Whip 5:50
2. Hophornbeam 5:09
3. Dogwood 2:33
4. Skyrækker No. 1 3:32
5. Oak and The Alder 6:38
6. Skyrækker No. 2 2:04
7. Chestnut and the Woods 7:29
8. Apples, Apples 4:23
9. Dark Boat 4:50
10. Closure 5:18
Total time 47:54

All compositions by Solborg/Eilertsen/Bruun/Robertson/Parker
Except 4. and 6. by Solborg/Parker

///////////////////////////


With 12 releases as leader or co. leader and performances at leading European jazzfestivals  Solborg has established himself with clear defined imprints on the Danish and International Jazz- and Improv-scene. His production includes both composed and improvised music. 

Besides Eillertsen, Parker & Robertson collaborators include Chris Speed, Hank Roberts, Paal Nilssen-Love, Francesco Bigoni, Marc Lohr, Lotte Anker, a.o.  Solborgs work as guitarist and composer has recieved substantial international recognition.  

On his latest release with new original compositions for nonet, Solborg 4+4+1 :

Solborgs 4+4+1 nonet moves like a proud ship with all sails up into the wind, carrying a dear treasure delivered with great trust and loving care. It is set ashore on the pier of 
this years most exquisite Danish jazz - Bjarne Søltoft, Jazznytt, Norge

. ..stunningly built up from a palette of tonal colors. Solborg’s CD impresses. 
- Ken Waxman, New York City Jazz Record


The Whip (Solborg)

Closure

Poplen (Francesco Bigoni)


On Dog
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Piero Bittolo Bon (ITA) – alto saxophone, bassclarinet, flute 
Francesco Bigoni (ITA) – tenor saxophone, clarinet 
Beppe Scardino (ITA) – baritone saxophone, bassclarinet 
Mark Solborg (DK) – electric & acoustic guitars 
Marc Lohr (LUX) – drums and electronics

The Dog is loose June 10th 2013 on ILK : 2 x 1CD set packed with original contemporary food for your ears !

http://www.ilkmusic.com


On Dog is a trans-European project, started and led by Francesco Bigoni and Mark Solborg. It presents a unique selection of original, sought-after musicians from Italy, Denmark and Luxembourg playing new contemporary music with an edge.

Together and invidually the members of On Dog have played and recorded with such prominent artists as Evan Parker, Gianluca Petrella, Enrico Rava, Stefano Battaglia, Greg Cohen, Jim Black, AACM, Herb Robertson, Chris Speed, Paal Nilssen-Love, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Hank Roberts, Bobby Previte and many others.

Musically speaking, it is essentially a study on counterpoint and polyphony which allows five performers (all composers and free improvisers) to be confronted by through-composed pieces.

Here Francesco Bigoni and Mark Solborg’s voices and pens meet again after their first encounter: the Danish- Canadian trio Hopscotch. Hopscotch is melted with the Italian saxophone/clarinet trio Crisco 3 to generate an unusual constellation which ranges from transparent, chamber-like passages to rocking bursts of sound.

http://francescobigoni.tumblr.com/
http://www.solborg.dk

Poplen (Bigoni)

Mark Solborg - Guitar

All songs by Mark Solborg except "Filmprimadonna" by Mark Solborg and Simon Toldam.

The work of guitarist and composer Mark Solborg has been praised all over for it's originality and artistic integrity. With TUNGEMÅL Solborg is now releasing substantial unique material deriving from his investigations into a musical language for the electrified guitar in an acoustic chamber setting. The TUNGEMÅL research has been going on for several years and is documented through three albums holding core works with Solborgs approaches to the idiom of his guitar and the musical conversation in intimate recording settings. Solborg displays a diverse musical landscape with room for both simple intimate melodies played with extreme dynamic sensitivity and intricate textural work - yet colored with at certain subtle poetry. The two corresponding books contain written reflections and notes, scores, photos and links to video footage, spatial diagrams and graphic illustrations. All created by Solborg himself with the ambition of mapping the topography of the project and formulating it's poetics through multiple media. You could see the entire project as a collection or creative dictionary ment to be experienced by both specialist, student and layman. 

Volumes I & II contains works for solo guitar (Vol I) and duos + trio (vol II) with a selection of leading musicians on the Danish scene for contemporary jazz and improv: Lars Greve (Girls in Airports a.o.), Simon Toldam (award-winning pianist and composer) and Francesco Bigoni (reedman with Maria Faust and many others).

TUNGEMÅL I

05 - Nattesang

Mark Solborg - Guitar
+
Lars Greve - Clarinets, bass clarinet, soprano, tenor & baritone saxophones
Simon Toldam - Piano
Francesco Bigoni  - Tenor saxophone & clarinet


The work of guitarist and composer Mark Solborg has been praised all over for it's originality and artistic integrity. With TUNGEMÅL Solborg is now releasing substantial unique material deriving from his investigations into a musical language for the electrified guitar in an acoustic chamber setting. The TUNGEMÅL research has been going on for several years and is documented through three albums holding core works with Solborgs approaches to the idiom of his guitar and the musical conversation in intimate recording settings. Solborg displays a diverse musical landscape with room for both simple intimate melodies played with extreme dynamic sensitivity and intricate textural work - yet colored with at certain subtle poetry. The two corresponding books contain written reflections and notes, scores, photos and links to video footage, spatial diagrams and graphic illustrations. All created by Solborg himself with the ambition of mapping the topography of the project and formulating it's poetics through multiple media. You could see the entire project as a collection or creative dictionary ment to be experienced by both specialist, student and layman. 

Volumes I & II contains works for solo guitar (Vol I) and duos + trio (vol II) with a selection of leading musicians on the Danish scene for contemporary jazz and improv: Lars Greve (Girls in Airports a.o.), Simon Toldam (award-winning pianist and composer) and Francesco Bigoni (reedman with Maria Faust and many others).

www.solborg.dk

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