DESCRIPTION:
extract from the Album "Canarie" by Honest John | more info http://www.rudirecords.com/albums/156-canarie Rudi Records 2014
Honest John:
Ole-Henrik Moe, violin
Kim Johannesen, guitar, banjo
Ola Høyer, bass
Erik Nylander, drums
Klaus Ellerhusen Holm, alto sax, clarinet

This young Scandinavian quintet impresses for the actual ability to get through and integrate different styles and music languages. Declared or not, among their influences, we'll notice some apparently divergent associations, spanning from Dutch Free Jazz, through some unidentified folk echoes, to the serious music of composers like Webern and Sciarrino, The uninhibited and energetic sound of Honest John develops with great agility through the combination of different strategies such as open forms and complex structures. The group's original musical path appears as perfectly coherent within the Northern European Creative Music tradition. (RR)