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| Torben Waldorff Launches Second Artistshare Project Scandinavian guitarist/composer Torben Waldorff announces the launch of his second ArtistShare project Afterburn. Through his website www.waldorff.com, fans and guitar aficionados can follow and support the creative process behind the making of the music and the recording of the studio album. The recording will take place in the last days of December 2007 in New York City and be released in March 2008, but the ArtistShare model allows for fans of this music to get involved right away by logging on to Waldorff's website. Exclusive and more personalized project packages are available for project sponsors and participants, who receive extras like credit in the CD booklet, bonus tracks, lead sheets, streaming audio, and much more. A special Executive Producer package includes an invitation to attend the recording, a personal one-of-a-kind bonus track and complimentary CDs for personal/business contacts. Torben's ArtistShare site will also offer a unique interactive online Euro-American improvisation opportunity. Torben will present a piece of music that participants can download and record their own improvisation onto and submit back. This will then be put on the site as an interactive on-line jam. Sitting in on the premiere online jam on Torben's track made in Malmo, Sweden are Ingrid Jensen on trumpet and Jon Wikan on Cajn from New York City, and saxophonist Joel Miller from Montreal. It is with that same group that Torben now launches the new Afterburn project. Featured are Waldorff on guitar, Donny McCaslin on saxophone, Jon Wikan on drums, and Matt Clohesy on bass. Torben and Donny, friends since their Berklee College days in Boston in the 1980s, have met and played at different locations over the years. With the Brilliance CD they established a more formal collaboration that continues on Afterburn. Through his friendship and collaborations with Ingrid Jensen, Torben started playing with drummer Jon Wikan, Alaska/Seattlean transplanted to New York and later Aussie/NYC bassist Matt Clohesy. Torben remains living in Scandinavia and tours in US/Canada every year. Technically proficient and musically intuitive in his guitar brilliance, Torben Waldorff possesses an imagination formed by numerous influences - and one that shapes a variety of moods. As a guitarist he employs the full range of his instrument, concentrating on lyric delivery with passion, closer to the spirit of Ben Monder than Stern. He is an economically refined player who understands how to play virtuoso with colors, dynamics and the dramaturgy of a director. His exchanges with Donny McCaslin (who was nominated for a Grammy for his playing on Maria Schneider's “Concert in the Garden” CD) constitute beautiful duels with intuitive interplay, elegance and excitement. The group's music is composed predominantly by Torben with traditional, avant-garde and free jazz elements along with reminders of the eased song structures of Eric Clapton. Their musical empathy and cohesion was heralded by Jazz Improv Magazine: “Each performance is completely in the moment as they respond to each others ideas.” Together they form a trans-Atlantic jazz that brings together New Yorkean brilliance and natural play with the sensibilities of Scandinavia: matured timeless aesthetics, a deep sense of intelligent and skillful spacing and perspective, which the Danes are also known for in architecture, design, and form. Torben Waldorff is building bridges between America and Scandinavia. The Afterburn project makes a modern approach and welcomes participation well ahead of the CD's recording and release. Through www.waldorff.com, fans can follow the creative process that drives the project, leading up to the final release. Fans can follow Torben as he composes new music for the recording and develops how it will be performed and improvised on, hear insights into rehearsing the music, get live recordings, journals, information on touring experiences, images etc., through video and audio presentations and much more. Torben's ArtistShare site will offer a unique interactive online Euro- American improvisation opportunity as Torben will present a piece of music that participants can download and record their own improvisation onto and submit back. This will then be put on the site as an interactive on-line jam. The Afterburn project is open for exclusive participation. High-end packages are developed for those who wish to participate in the project on a more personalized level. For these packages, the participant will receive personalized special items like the music charts used in the recording and signed by Waldorff, and other exclusive memorabilia, artist-tracked, numbered and personalized limited edition CDs, credit-listing on the artwork, a bound book of the music, and more. A special Executive Producer package includes an invitation to attend the recording, a personal one-of-a-kind bonus track and complimentary CDs for personal/business contacts. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |