Paal Nilssen-Love discography explained

Artist:	Paal Nilssen-Love
Studio:	92
Live:	16
Compilation:	4
Ep:	2

Paal Nilssen-Love (born December 24, 1974) is a Norwegian drummer active in the jazz and free jazz genres.

He has released two solo albums, and his portfolio includes Atomic, School Days, The Thing, Scorch Trio, Territory Band, FME, and various duo projects such as with reedmen Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark, John Butcher, organist Nils Henrik Asheim and noise experimentalist Lasse Marhaug.

Solo

Year	Title	Notes
2001	*Sticks & Stones* Released: May 1, 2001 Label: Sofa Format: CD	Recorded in Sofienberg Church
2005	*27 Years Later* Released: 2005 Label: Utech Format: CD	Live at Moldejazz
2008	*Miró* Released: 2010 Label: PNL Format: CD	Live at "Nits De Musica" July 24, 2008 in Barcelona
2012	*Chiapaneca* Released: 2012 Label: Bocian Format: LP	Live in Mexico City
2015	*News From The Junk Yard* Released: 2015 Label: PNL Format: LP	Studio album

As band leader

Townhouse Orchestra

Year	Title	Notes
2005	*Townorchestrahouse* Released: August, 2005 Label: Clean Feed Records Format: CD	Live
2008	*Belle Ville* Released: 2008 Label: Clean Feed Records Format: 2CD	Live

Large Unit^[1]

Year	Title	Notes
2014	*Erta Ale* Released: August, 2014 Label: PNL Format: LP/CD	Live
2015	*2015* Released: 2015 Label: PNL Format: 2CD	Live
2016	*Ana* Released: April 1, 2016 Label: PNL Format: CD	Studio album

As co-leader or sideperson

ADA (Peter Brötzmann, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Paal Nilssen-Love)

Year	Title	Notes
2011	*ADA* Released: 2011 Label: Self-released Format: CD	Live
2012	*OTO* Released: 2013 Label: Self-released Format: CD	Live with Steve Noble
2011	*OTO* Released: 2011 Label: Self-released Format: CD	Live with Pat Thomas

Atomic

See main article: Atomic.

Year	Title	comment
2001	*Feet Music* Released: 2001 Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal Format: CD
2004	*Boom Boom* Released: 2004 Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal Format: CD
2005	*The Bikini Tapes* Released: 2005 Label: Jazzland Rec/Next Stop Distribusjon Format: 3CD	Live
2006	*Happy New Ears* Released: 2006 Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal Format: CD
2008	*Retrograde* Released: 2008 Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal Format: 3CD	2CD + Live CD
2010	*Theater Tilters Vol. 1* Released: 2010 Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal Format: CD	Live
2010	*Theater Tilters Vol. 2* Released: 2010 Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal Format: CD	Live
2011	*Here Comes Everybody* Released: 2011 Label: Jazzland Rec Format: CD
2012	*There's a Hole in the Mountain* Released: 2013 Label: Jazzland Rec Format: CD
2015	*Lucidity* Released: 2015 Label: Jazzland Rec Format: CD

Atomic/School Days

Year	Title
2004	*Nuclear Assembly Hall* Released: 2004 Label: Okka Disk Format: 2CD
2008	*Distil* Released: 2008 Label: Okka Disk Format: CD

Boneshaker (Mars Williams, Paal Nilssen-Love, Kent Kessler)

Year	Title
2012	*Boneshaker* Released: 2012 Label: Trost Records
2014	*Unusual Words* Released: 2014 Label: Soul What
2017	*Thinking Out Loud* Released: 2017 Label: Trost Records Format: CD
2019	*Fake Music* Released: 2019 Label: Soul What

Bradford, Gjerstad, Håker Flaten, Nilssen-Love

Year	Title	Notes
2008	*Reknes* Released: 2009 Label: Circulasione Totale Format: CD	Live at Moldejazz
2012	*Kampen* Released: 2012 Label: NoBusiness Records Format: LP	Live at Kampenjazz Limited edition of 300 records

Bugge Wesseltoft's New Conceptions Of Jazz

See main article: article and Bugge Wesseltoft.

Circulasione Totale Orchestra

Year	Title
1992	*Enten Eller* Released: 1992 Label: Circulasione Totale Format: CD
1998	*Borealis* Released: 1998 Label: Format: CD
2008	*Open Port* Released: 2008 Label: Circulasione Totale Format: CD
2009	*Bandwidth* Released: November 2, 2009 Label: Rune Grammofon Format: 3CD

Double Tandem (Ab Baars, Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love)

Year	Title
2011	*Cement* Released: 2012 Label: PNL Format: CD
2012	OX Released: October 15, 2012 Label: dEN Records Format: CD

Element

Year	Title
1996	*Element* Released: 1996 Label: Turn Left Prod Format: CD
1999	*Shaman* Released: 1999 Label: Bp Records Format: CD

FME (Free Music Ensemble)

Year	Title	Comment
2002	*Live at Glenn Miller café* Released: 2002 Label: Okka Disk Format: CD	Live
2004	*Underground* Released: 2004 Label: Okka Disk Format: CD
2005	*Cuts* Released: 2005 Label: Okka Disk Format: CD
2006	*Montage* Released: 2006 Label: Okka Disk Format: CD

Frode Gjerstad and Paal Nilssen-Love

Year	Title
2007	*Day Before One* Released: 2007 Label: Tyyfus Format: LP
2008	*Gromka* Released: 2010 Label: Not Two Records Format: CD
2008	*Side By Side* Released: March 2012 Label: CIMP Format: CD

Frode Gjerstad Trio

Year	Title	Comment
2001	*The Blessing Light: For John Stevens* Released: 2001 Label: Cadence Jazz Format: CD
2002	*Last First* Released: 2002 Label: Falcata-Galia Format: CD
2003	*Sharp Knives cut Deeper* Released: 2003 Label: Splasc(h) Format: CD	Frode Gjerstad trio + Peter Brötzmann
2004	*St. Louis* Released: January 12, 2004 Label: FMR Format: CD
2006	*Mothers And Fathers* Released: 2006 Label: Circulasione Totale Format: CD
2007	*Nothing is Forever* Released: 2007 Label: Circulasione Totale Format: CD

Ken Vandermark / Paal Nilssen-Love

Year	Title
2003	*Dual Pleasure* Released: May 20, 2003 Label: Smalltown Supersound Format: CD
2004	*Dual Pleasure 2* Released: October 11, 2004 Label: Smalltown Supersound Format: 2CD
2006	*Seven* Released: 2006 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD
2006	*Chicago Volume* Released: 2009 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD

Kornstad trio

Year	Title	Comment
2001	*Space Available* Released: 2001 Label: Jazzland Acoustic Format: CD
2004	*Live from Kongsberg* Released: 2004 Label: Jazzland Acoustic Format: 2x 12"	Kornstad trio + Axel Dörner Live

Lasse Marhaug / Paal Nilssen-Love

Year	Title	Notes
2005	*Personal Hygiene* Released: 2005 Label: Utech Records Format: CD	Live
2007	*Stalk* Released: May, 2007 Label: PNL Format: CD
2011	*No Combo* Released: June 20, 2011 Label: Pica Disk, PNL Format: LP, Single Sided, Limited Edition	Live

Nils Henrik Asheim / Paal Nilssen-Love

Year	Title
2005	*Pipes & Bones* Released: March, 2005 Label: Utech Records Format: CD
2007	*Late Play* Released: 2007 Label: PNL Format: CD

OFFONOFF

Year	Title
2007	*Clash* Released: 2008 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD
Year	Title
2007	*Slap and Tickle* Released: 2009 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD

Original Silence

Year	Title
2007	*The First Original Silence* Released: 2007 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD
2008	*The Second Original Silence* Released: July 28, 2008 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD

Paal Nilssen-Love, Mats Gustafsson

Year	Title
2002	*I Love It When You Snore* Released: December 10, 2002 Label: Smalltown Supersound Format: CD
2007	*Splatter* Released: 2007 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD

The Peter Brötzmann Chicago tentet

Year	Title	Comment
2005	*Be Music, Night* Released: 2005 Label: Okka Disk Format: CD
2007	*American Landscapes 1* Released: 2007 Label: Okka Disk Format: CD	Live
2007	*American Landscapes 2* Released: 2007 Label: Okka Disk Format: CD	Live
2007	*At Molde 2007* Released: 2007 Label: Okka Disk Format: CD	Live
2009	*3 Nights in Oslo* Released: 2010 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD	Live

Peter Brötzmann / Paal Nilssen-Love

Year	Title
2008	*Sweet Sweat* Released: 2008 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD
2008	*Woodcuts* Released: 2010 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD

Pocket Corner

Year	Title
1999	*Cosmic Ballet* Released: 1999 Label: Bp Records Format: 12"
1997	*By-Music* Released: 1997 Label: Da-Da Format: CD
1996	*Rede for Hugg* Released: 1996 Label: Da-Da Format: CD
1995	*Slutt* Released: 1995 Label: Da-Da Format: CD

Rodrigo Amado, Kent Kessler, Paal Nilssen-Love

Year	Title
2006	*Teatro* Released: 2006 Label: European Echoes Format: CD
2008	*The Abstract Truth* Released: 2009 Label: European Echoes Format: CD

School Days

Year	Title	comment
2000	*Crossing Division* Released: 2000 Label: Okka Disk Format: CD
2002	*The music of Norman Howard* Released: 2002 Label: Anagram Records Format: LP	Side A: The Thing with guests Side B: School Days with Mats Gustafsson
2002	*In Our Times* Released: 2002 Label: Okka Disk Format: CD

Scorch Trio

Year	Title
2002	*Scorch Trio*^[2] Released: February 18, 2002 Label: Rune Grammofon Format: CD, 2LP
2004	*Luggumt*^[3] Released: October 11, 2004 Label: Rune Grammofon Format: CD, 2LP
2008	*Brolt*^[4] Released: April 21, 2008 Label: Rune Grammofon Format: CD

Sten Sandell Trio

Year	Title	Comment
2001	*Standing Wave* Released: 2001 Label: Sofa Format: CD
2004	*Flat Iron* Released: 2004 Label: Sofa Format: CD
2007	*Oval* Released: January, 2007 Label: Intakt Records Format: CD
2007	*Strokes* Released: June, 2007 Label: Clean Feed Format: CD	Sten Sandell Trio + John Butcher

Territory Band

Year	Title	Notes
2004	*Map Theory* Released: 2004 Label: Okka Disk Format: 2CD	Territory Band-3
2005	*Company Switch* Released: 2005 Label: Okka Disk Format: 2CD	Territory Band-4
2006	*New Horse For The White House* Released: 2006 Label: Okka Disk Format: 3CD	Territory Band-5
2007	*Collide* Released: 2007 Label: Okka Disk Format: CD	Territory Band-6 with Fred Anderson

The Thing

See main article: The Thing and The Thing (jazz band).

Year	Title	Notes
2000	*The Thing* Released: 2000 Label: Crazy Wisdom Format: CD
2001	*She Knows...* Released: 2001 Label: Crazy Wisdom Format: CD	as The Thing with Joe McPhee
2004	*Garage* Released: 2004 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD
2005	*Live at Blå* Released: June, 2005 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD	Live
2006	*Action Jazz* Released: 2006 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD
2007	*Immediate Sound* Released: 2007 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD	as The Thing with Ken Vandermark
2008	*Now And Forever* Released: 2008 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: 3CD+DVD	Box set containing The Thing, She Knows..., a new improv session Gluttony and a live DVD Live at Øya
2009	*Bag It*	Released: June 15, 2009 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD
2009	*Shinjuku Crawl* Released: October, 2009 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD	as The Thing With Otomo Yoshihide
2013	*Boot!* Released: November 12, 2013 Label: The Thing Format: CD
2015	*Shake* Released October 30, 2015 Label The Thing Format: CD

See also The Music of Norman Howard, an album by School Days and The Thing.

Two Bands and a Legend

Year	Title	Notes
2005	*Sounds Like A Sandwich* Released: March, 2005 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD	as The Thing with Cato Salsa Experience and Joe McPhee EP
2007	*Two Bands And A Legend* Released: March, 2007 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD	as Two Bands and a Legend
2007	*I See You Baby* Released: 2007 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD	as Two Bands and a Legend EP

Zim Ngqawana

See main article: article and Zim Ngqawana.

Compilations

Year	Title	Ensemble
1995	*Jazz I Timeglass Vol.1* Released: 1995 Label: Stavanger Konserthus Format: CD
2002	*Money Will Ruin Everything*^[5] Released: November 10, 2003 Label: Rune Grammofon Format: 2CD	Scorch Trio
2006	*Until Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown*^[6] Released: April 24, 2006 Label: Rune Grammofon Format: 5x 10" vinyl	Scorch Trio
2007	*Runeology 3*^[7] Released: July 1, 2007 Label: Rune Grammofon Format: CD	Scorch Trio

References

General

Web site: Paal Nilssen-Love discography. 2008-09-13. paalnilssen-love.com.
Web site: Ken Vandermark work/bio . 2008-09-14 . kenvandermark.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080913141130/http://kenvandermark.com/work.php . 2008-09-13.

Specific

External links

Official webpage

Notes and References

Web site: Friday June 22, [2018,] 9:00 PM: Paal Nilssen-Love’s Large Unit ]. . 2018 . 2018-04-09.
http://runegrammofon.com/artists/scorch_trio/rcd-2025---scorch-trio-scorch- Scorch Trio: Scorch Trio
http://runegrammofon.com/artists/scorch_trio/rcd-2040---scorch-trio-luggumt Scorch Trio: Luggumt
http://runegrammofon.com/artists/scorch_trio/rcd-2074---scorch-trio_-brolt Scorch Trio: Brolt
http://runegrammofon.com/artists/various/rcd2032-variousmoneywillruinev Various: Money Will Ruin Everything
http://runegrammofon.com/artists/various/rlp2050-variousuntilhumanvoice Various: Until Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown
http://runegrammofon.com/artists/various/rcds3---various_-runeology-3 Various: Runeology 3