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Farmers Market - Discography[folkrock][musicrequest]


????: jazz-rock, folk, experimental, norway, balkan
???? ?????? ????????: 1995 - 2008
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1995 ? Speed/Balkan/Boogie[flac][tracks]
1997 ? Musikk fra Hybridene[flac][tracks]
2000 ? Stian Carstensen - Farmers Market[flac][tracks]
2008 ? Surfin' USSR[flac][tracks]
2012 ?  Slav To The Rhythm[mp3 320][tracks]

FARMERS MARKET are an eclectic jazz rock/fusion group, formed by Håvard LUND (clarinet, sax), who was soon joined by Stian CARSTENSEN (accordion, guitar, vocals), Finn GUTTORMSEN (bass), Nils Olav JOHANSEN (guitar, vocals) and Jarle VESPESTAD (drums), in 1991, while they where all studying at the Trondheim Jazz Conservatory.

Originally playing free jazz, the group soon added rock, bluegrass, classical and Bulgarian folk into their unique blend of music, performed in their own characteristic style, where humorous arrangements, virtuosity and (very) odd time signatures are important ingredients. Humor also plays an important part in their album and track titles, like "Slav To The Rhythm" and "Les Paul, More John", and on stage, prominently shown in their medleys of familiar songs in unusual settings.

Their musical boundlessness have garnered them some critics, as there are some who find their technical brilliance provocative and soulless, but mostly acclaim, for their studio works also, but especially their live performances, which, over the years, have made them one of Norway's most popular live bands, and put them in demand for several national and international jazz festivals, including the Varanger Festival, Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Molde International Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival (in The Hague, Netherlands) and Berliner Festspiele.

It's therefore fitting that their first album "Speed / Balkan / Boogie", released in 1995, was a live recording, from two concerts held at Molde International Jazz Festival the year before, where FARMERS MARKET were accompanied by two members the Grammy Award-winning Bulgarian female vocal group ANGELITE, and two Bulgarian folk musicians.

After the release of "Speed / Balkan / Boogie", LUND left the band, and was replaced by Bulgarian saxophonist Trifon TRIFONOV, who joined after auditioning by telephone.

In 1997 they released their first studio album, "Musikk fra Hybridene" (Music from the Hybrides), followed by their self-titled second studio album in 2000. After a sabbatical, they returned in 2008 with "Surfin' USSR", where they took their characteristic humor-filled style to new heights, before turning a bit more serious, although no less playful, on their latest release, "Slav to the Rhythm" (2012), which is more traditional prog fusion, but still with a healthy dose of their trademark Balkan inspired sound in the mix. For both "Surfin USSR" and "Slav to the Rhythm" FARMERS MARKET won Spellemannsprisen (the Norwegian equivalent to the Grammys) in the Open Class category.

Both in studio and live FARMERS MARKET are a mind boggling and entertaining musical experience, with their own, more often than not Balkan folk infused, fusion compositions brewed with everything from 80's metal and James Bond movie tunes to Swedish pop, Merseybeat and Melody Grand Prix songs, everything coated in gypsy jazz rock, and served up with the Frank ZAPPA approach to jazz, and humor in music, as well as high speed technical proficiency, played in a manner which makes these odd combinations sound, somewhat surprisingly, like the most natural thing in the world.

Recommended to the adventurous listener and fans of limitless genre blending and bending, who doesn't mind elements of humor in their daily dosage of prog.