Simon Toldam Trio
“Orchestra of the year”, at Danish Music Awards Jazz 2021
The Trio´s album OMHU awarded “BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR at Danish Music Award 2019
Nils Davidsen / Bass Simon Toldam / Piano Knut Finsrud / Drums
ALT ER LUFT - release november 29th 2024
The suite Alt Er Luft (Air is the arche) consists of 9 parts, drawing on the exploratory tonal language of contemporary music, performed with the improvisational spontaneity of jazz.
Recorded in the unique environment of Anexet, a concert hall in an rebuild barn at Lundsgaard Manor, the fantastic acoustics brings the music alive, allowing every sound to infuse energy in to the overall spacious expression.
The trio's telepathic interplay has made them one of Denmark’s most recognised and exciting groups through the past 13 years, an on Alt Er Luft , the virtuosic bowed bass, perfectly orchestrated percussion and lyrical piano melodies come together to create some of the trios most intense musical landscapes.
Simon Toldam Trio has, released four acclaimed albums. Their latest, Omhu, won Album of the Year at the Danish Music Awards Jazz 2019. In 2021, they were named Orchestra of the Year.
Simon Toldam is one of Scandinavia’s most distinguished and innovative musicians, with 19 albums as a leader and co-leader. He is a five-time Danish Music Awards winner and part of the Danish jazz and contemporary music label, ILK Music. In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious 3-year grant from The Danish Arts Foundation. Besides leading the Simon Toldam Trio, Tak For Dit Brev, and Paris Peacock, he has collaborated with notable artists like Han Bennink, Susanna Santos Silva, Axel Dörner, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Chris Speed, Kaja Draksler, Marc Ducret, Peter Bruun, Lotte Anker, Nils-Petter Molvær, Marilyn Mazur, Tristan Honsinger and many more.
Alt Er Luft is released on the Danish contemporary label ILK Music on vinyl and streaming.
For press inquiries, interviews, or to request a review copy, contact: simontoldam@gmail.com
Film from the recording of ALT ER LUFT
MUSIC VIDEO MUSIK FOR ORGEL, FROM THE ALBUM OMHU
MUSIC VIDEO ILLUMINATION, FROM THE ALBUM OMHU
“Perhaps one day we will forget what it means to sit still in contemplation, gazing at the clouds in the sky, but then music, slow music, will be the entry into a world where it’s possible to reconnect with a feeling of presence. The record spinning could very well be Simon Toldam Trio’s Omhu…
..It’s the careful attention to details that almost makes the music three-dimensional. ”
“Notes are falling as raindrops amid prowling textures, shuffling timbres and reptilian mood shifts. It all happens the way sounds occur and rise in nature and provides a distinguishing listening experience.”
“This Jazz - improvisational and free, more ambient and with a nostalgic patina as expressive and wild and yet again into the open air bursting irascible, is typically European, Scandinavian, dark, epic, lyrical, delicate and coarse, rough and smooth in every motive”
““Simon Toldam ... one of the most impressive figures on the bustling Scandinavian
improvised music scene”.”
“The contrast to light and dark in the timbre seems to be absorbed in a Per Kirkeby canvas.”
“The pieces are anything but brazen or cool, but carried by impressive intuition, and not least, this is also music of great beauty.”
“the trio succeeds to deliver promising comments to the koans of «OMHU», leaving us, the listeners, with enigmatic themes that keep lingering on in our minds, while we reflect on the elusive elements of time and space.”