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
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2001 |
Sticks & Stones
- Released: May 1, 2001
- Label: Sofa (SOFA 505)
- Format: CD
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Recorded in Sofienberg Church
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2005 |
27 Years Later
- Released: 2005
- Label: Utech (024)
- Format: CD
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Live at Moldejazz
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2008 |
Miró
- Released: 2010
- Label: PNL (PNL007)
- Format: CD
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Live at "Nits De Musica" July 24, 2008 in Barcelona
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2012 |
Chiapaneca
- Released: 2012
- Label: Bocian (BC-PNL)
- Format: LP
|
Live in Mexico City
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2015 |
News From The Junk Yard
- Released: 2015
- Label: PNL (PNL031)
- Format: LP
|
Studio album
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As band leader
Townhouse Orchestra
Year |
Title |
Notes
|
2005 |
Townorchestrahouse
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Live
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2008 |
Belle Ville
|
Live
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Large Unit
Year |
Title |
Notes
|
2014 |
Erta Ale
- Released: August, 2014
- Label: PNL (PNL025)
- Format: LP/CD
|
Live
|
2015 |
2015
- Released: 2015
- Label: PNL (PNL030)
- Format: 2CD
|
Live
|
2015 |
Ana
- Released: April 1, 2016
- Label: PNL (PNL033)
- Format: CD
|
Studio album
|
As side man
Year |
Title |
Notes
|
2011 |
ADA
- Released: 2011
- Label: Self-released (ADA 001)
- Format: CD
|
Live
|
2012 |
OTO
- Released: 2013
- Label: Self-released (ADA 002)
- Format: CD
|
Live with Steve Noble
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2011 |
OTO
- Released: 2011
- Label: Self-released (ADA 003)
- Format: CD
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Live with Pat Thomas
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Adam Lane / Ken Vandermark / Magnus Boo / Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title |
Notes
|
2007 |
4 Corners
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Live
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Anker
Year |
Title
|
2005 |
Six Row Barley
- Released: 2005
- Label: Utech Records (013)
- Format: CD
|
Year |
Title |
comment
|
2013 |
Scarcity
- Released: 2014
- Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal (016 558-2)
- Format: CD
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Live in Concert at Audio Rebel’s Quintavant, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil July 2nd 2013.
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Atomic
Year |
Title |
comment
|
2001 |
Feet Music
- Released: 2001
- Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal (016 558-2)
- Format: CD
|
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2004 |
Boom Boom
- Released: 2004
- Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal (038 264-2)
- Format: CD
|
|
2005 |
The Bikini Tapes
- Released: 2005
- Label: Jazzland Rec/Next Stop Distribusjon (987 154-0)
- Format: 3CD
|
Live
|
2006 |
Happy New Ears
- Released: 2006
- Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal (987 655-4)
- Format: CD
|
|
2008 |
Retrograde
- Released: 2008
- Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal (176 884-3)
- Format: 3CD
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2CD + Live CD
|
2010 |
Theater Tilters Vol. 1
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Live
|
2010 |
Theater Tilters Vol. 2
- Released: 2010
- Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal (273 341-0)
- Format: CD
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Live
|
2011 |
Here Comes Everybody
|
|
2012 |
There's a Hole in the Mountain
|
|
2015 |
Lucidity
|
|
Atomic/School Days
Year |
Title
|
2004 |
Nuclear Assembly Hall
- Released: 2004
- Label: Okka Disk (OD12049)
- Format: 2CD
|
2008 |
Distil
- Released: 2008
- Label: Okka Disk (OD12073)
- Format: CD
|
Bjørnar Andresen, Svein Finnerud, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2000 |
Egne Hoder
- Released: 2000
- Label: Bp Records (bp 00008cd)
- Format: CD
|
Bradford, Gjerstad, Håker Flaten, Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title |
Notes
|
2008 |
Reknes
- Released: 2009
- Label: Circulasione Totale (CTCD11)
- Format: CD
|
Live at Moldejazz
|
2012 |
Kampen
- Released: 2012
- Label: NoBusiness Records (NBLP51)
- Format: LP
|
Live at Kampenjazz Limited edition of 300 records
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Bradford, Gjerstad, Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title |
Notes
|
2010 |
Dragon
- Released: 2012
- Label: PNL (PNL014)
- Format: CD
|
Live at Klub Dragon
|
Brötzmann, Michiyo Yagi, Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2008 |
Head On
- Released: 2008
- Label: Idiolect (ID-02)
- Format: CD
|
Brötzmann, Swell, Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2015 |
Krakow Nights
- Released: October 2015
- Label: Not Two Records (MW937-2)
- Format: CD
|
Bugge Wesseltoft's New Conceptions Of Jazz
Year |
Title
|
1998 |
Sharing
- Released: 1998
- Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal (538 259-2)
- Format: CD
|
Calling Signals
Year |
Title
|
2006 |
Dreams in Dreams
- Released: 2006
- Label: FMR (CD177-0805)
- Format: CD
|
Christer Bothen Acoustic Ensemble
Year |
Title
|
2002 |
7 Pieces
- Released: 2002
- Label: LJ Records (LJCD 5230)
- Format: CD
|
Circulasione Totale Orchestra
Year |
Title
|
1992 |
Enten Eller
|
1998 |
Borealis
- Released: 1998
- Label: (RCD1091)
- Format: CD
|
2008 |
Open Port
|
2009 |
Bandwidth
- Released: November 2, 2009
- Label: Rune Grammofon (RCD 2089)
- Format: 3CD
|
Crimetime Orchestra
Year |
Title
|
2005 |
Life is a beautiful monster
|
Didrik Ingvaldsen
Year |
Title
|
2000 |
History & Movement
- Released: 2000
- Label: Da-Da (4CD)
- Format: CD
|
Double Tandem (Ab Baars, Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love)
Year |
Title
|
2011 |
Cement
- Released: 2012
- Label: PNL (PNL013)
- Format: CD
|
2012 |
OX
- Released: October 15, 2012
- Label: dEN Records (010)
- Format: CD
|
Element
Year |
Title
|
1996 |
Element
- Released: 1996
- Label: Turn Left Prod (001)
- Format: CD
|
1999 |
Shaman
- Released: 1999
- Label: Bp Records (bp 99001cd)
- Format: CD
|
Fireroom
Year |
Title
|
2008 |
Broken Music[1]
- Released: April 8, 2008
- Label: Atavistic (61183)
- Format: CD
|
FME (Free Music Ensemble)
Year |
Title |
Comment
|
2002 |
Live at Glenn Miller café
- Released: 2002
- Label: Okka Disk (ODL 10007)
- Format: CD
|
Live
|
2004 |
Underground
- Released: 2004
- Label: Okka Disk (OD 12051)
- Format: CD
|
|
2005 |
Cuts
- Released: 2005
- Label: Okka Disk (OD 12061)
- Format: CD
|
|
2006 |
Montage
- Released: 2006
- Label: Okka Disk (OD 12071)
- Format: CD
|
|
Fred Lonberg-Holm, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title |
Comment
|
2012 |
You Can Be Mine
- Released: April 2015
- Label: Bocian Records (bc fp)
- Format: LP, Limited Edition
|
Recorded 31st of August 2012 at Rattlesnake Studio, Chicago.
|
Frode Gjerstad, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Amit Sen, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title |
Comment
|
2007 |
The Cello Quartet
- Released: 2007
- Label: FMR Records (FMRCD 212-0906)
- Format: CD
|
Live
|
Frode Gjerstad and Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2007 |
Day Before One
- Released: 2007
- Label: Tyyfus (4)
- Format: LP
|
2008 |
Gromka
- Released: 2010
- Label: Not Two Records (MW 839-2)
- Format: CD
|
2008 |
Side By Side
- Released: March 2012
- Label: CIMP (CIMP 388)
- Format: CD
|
Frode Gjerstad Trio
Year |
Title |
Comment
|
2001 |
The Blessing Light: For John Stevens
- Released: 2001
- Label: Cadence Jazz (CJR 1126)
- Format: CD
|
|
2002 |
Last First
- Released: 2002
- Label: Falcata-Galia (FALC-0007/0079)
- Format: CD
|
|
2003 |
Sharp Knives cut Deeper
- Released: 2003
- Label: Splasc(h) (CDH850.2)
- Format: CD
|
Frode Gjerstad trio + Peter Brötzmann
|
2004 |
St. Louis[2]
- Released: January 12, 2004
- Label: FMR (122)
- Format: CD
|
|
2006 |
Mothers And Fathers
- Released: 2006
- Label: Circulasione Totale (CTCD 8)
- Format: CD
|
|
2007 |
Nothing is Forever
- Released: 2007
- Label: Circulasione Totale (CTCD 10)
- Format: CD
|
|
Ingoma
Year |
Title
|
2000 |
Ingoma
- Released: 2000
- Label: Sheer Sound (SSCD 053)
- Format: CD
|
Joe McPhee / Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2008 |
Tomorrow Came Today
|
John Butcher / Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2006 |
Concentric
- Released: 2006
- Label: Clean Feed (CF 067CD)
- Format: CD
|
Jon Eberson, Bjørnar Andresen, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2001 |
Mind the gap
- Released: 2001
- Label: Curling Legs (CD 66)
- Format: CD
|
Ken Vandermark / Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2003 |
Dual Pleasure[3]
|
2004 |
Dual Pleasure 2[4]
|
2006 |
Seven
|
2006 |
Chicago Volume
|
Kornstad trio
Year |
Title |
Comment
|
2001 |
Space Available
|
|
2004 |
Live from Kongsberg
|
- Kornstad trio + Axel Dörner
- Live
|
Lars Göran Ullander trio
Year |
Title |
Notes
|
2005 |
Live at Glenn Miller Café
- Released: 2005
- Label: Ayler Records (aylCD-013)
- Format: CD
|
Live
|
Lasse Marhaug / Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title |
Notes
|
2005 |
Personal Hygiene
- Released: 2005
- Label: Utech Records (UR-005)
- Format: CD
|
Live
|
2007 |
Stalk
- Released: May, 2007
- Label: PNL (PNL001)
- Format: CD
|
|
2011 |
No Combo
- Released: June 20, 2011
- Label: Pica Disk (PICA028), PNL (PNL009)
- Format: LP, Single Sided, Limited Edition
|
Live
|
Magnus Broo / Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2008 |
Game
- Released: 2008
- Label: PNL (PNL003)
- Format: CD
|
Year |
Title
|
2004/2007 |
Collaborations
|
Year |
Title
|
2014 |
Spring Snow
- Released: May, 2014
- Label: PNL Records (PNL 023)
- Format: CD
|
Mats Gustafsson, Paal Nilssen-Love, Mesele Asmamaw
Year |
Title
|
2010 |
Baro 101
- Released: 2012
- Label: Terp Records (AIS-19)
- Format: CD
|
Michiyo Yagi, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title |
comment
|
2006 |
Live! at the SuperDeluxe
- Released: August, 2006
- Label: Idiolect/Bomba Records (BOM26002)
- Format: CD
|
Live
|
Michiyo Yagi, Joe McPhee, Lasse Marhaug, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title |
comment
|
2013 |
Soul Stream
- Released: December, 2015
- Label: PNL (PNL032)
- Format: CD
|
Recorded at GOK Sound, Tokyo on January 21, 2013.
|
Michiyo Yagi, Lasse Marhaug, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title |
comment
|
2011 |
Angular Mass
- Released: December, 2015
- Label: PNL (PNL028)
- Format: CD
|
Recorded at GOK Sound, Tokyo on February 8, 2011.
|
Nils Henrik Asheim / Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2005 |
Pipes & Bones
- Released: March, 2005
- Label: Utech Records (UR-006)
- Format: CD
|
2007 |
Late Play
- Released: 2007
- Label: PNL (PNL002)
- Format: CD
|
No spagetti edition
Year |
Title
|
2001 |
Listen... And Tell Me What It Was
- Released: July 7, 2001
- Label: Sofa (SOFA506)
- Format: CD
|
OFFONOFF
Year |
Title
|
2007 |
Clash
|
Year |
Title
|
2007 |
Slap and Tickle
|
Original Silence
Year |
Title
|
2007 |
The First Original Silence
|
2008 |
The Second Original Silence
|
Paal Nilssen-Love, Anders Hana
Year |
Title
|
2005 |
AM/FM
- Released: 2005
- Label: Utech Records (UR-023)
- Format: CD
|
Paal Nilssen-Love, Håkon Kornstad
Year |
Title
|
2004 |
Schlinger[5]
|
Paal Nilssen-Love, Massimo Pupillo, Lasse Marhaug
Year |
Title
|
2011 |
You're Next
- Released: October 1, 2012
- Label: Bocian Records (BC-PML)
- Format: LP
|
Paal Nilssen-Love, Mats Gustafsson
Year |
Title
|
2002 |
I Love It When You Snore
|
2007 |
Splatter
|
Paal Nilssen-Love, Michiyo Yagi, Peter Brötzmann
Year |
Title
|
2008 |
Volda
- Released: January, 2010
- Label: Idiolect (ID-03)
- Format: CD
|
The Peter Brötzmann Chicago tentet
Year |
Title |
Comment
|
2005 |
Be Music, Night
- Released: 2005
- Label: Okka Disk (OD 12059)
- Format: CD
|
|
2007 |
American Landscapes 1
- Released: 2007
- Label: Okka Disk (OD12067)
- Format: CD
|
Live
|
2007 |
American Landscapes 2
- Released: 2007
- Label: Okka Disk (OD12068)
- Format: CD
|
Live
|
2007 |
At Molde 2007
- Released: 2007
- Label: Okka Disk (OD12072)
- Format: CD
|
Live
|
Peter Brötzmann / Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2008 |
Sweet Sweat
|
2008 |
Woodcuts
|
Peter Brötzmann, Paal Nilssen-Love and Mats Gustafsson
Year |
Title
|
2007 |
The Fat Is Gone
|
Peter Janson, Jonas Kullhammar, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2002 |
Live at Glenn Miller café
- Released: 2002
- Label: Ayler Records (AylCD-012)
- Format: CD
|
Pocket Corner
Year |
Title
|
1999 |
Cosmic Ballet
- Released: 1999
- Label: Bp Records (bp 99000lp)
- Format: 12"
|
1997 |
By-Music
- Released: 1997
- Label: Da-Da (3CD)
- Format: CD
|
1996 |
Rede for Hugg
- Released: 1996
- Label: Da-Da (2CD)
- Format: CD
|
1995 |
Slutt
- Released: 1995
- Label: Da-Da (1CD)
- Format: CD
|
(((Powerhouse Sound)))
Year |
Title
|
2007 |
Oslo/Chicago: (((Breaks)))
- Released: March, 2007
- Label: Atavistic (ALP1772CD)
- Format: 2CD
|
Quintet
Year |
Title
|
1999 |
March 28, 1999
- Released: 1999
- Label: Bp Records (bp 99002cd)
- Format: CD
|
Rodrigo Amado, Kent Kessler, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2006 |
Teatro[6]
- Released: 2006
- Label: European Echoes (001)
- Format: CD
|
2008 |
The Abstract Truth
- Released: 2009
- Label: European Echoes (003)
- Format: CD
|
Samsa'Ra
Year |
Title
|
2005 |
Samsa'Ra[7]
- Released: April 11, 2005
- Label: Jazzland Rec. (038 265-2)
- Format: CD
|
San
Year |
Title
|
1997 |
Song
- Released: 1997
- Label: Nor CD (NOR-CD 9720)
- Format: CD
|
School Days
Year |
Title |
comment
|
2000 |
Crossing Division
- Released: 2000
- Label: Okka Disk (OD12037)
- Format: CD
|
|
2002 |
The music of Norman Howard
- Released: 2002
- Label: Anagram Records (ANA LP 001)
- Format: LP
|
- Side A: The Thing with guests
- Side B: School Days with Mats Gustafsson
|
2002 |
In Our Times
- Released: 2002
- Label: Okka Disk (OD12041)
- Format: CD
|
|
Scorch Trio
Year |
Title
|
2002 |
Scorch Trio[8]
- Released: February 18, 2002
- Label: Rune Grammofon (RCD 2025)
- Format: CD, 2LP
|
2004 |
Luggumt[9]
- Released: October 11, 2004
- Label: Rune Grammofon (RCD 2040)
- Format: CD, 2LP
|
2008 |
Brolt[10]
|
Sten Sandell Trio
Year |
Title |
Comment
|
2001 |
Standing Wave
- Released: 2001
- Label: Sofa (SOFA 504)
- Format: CD
|
|
2004 |
Flat Iron
- Released: 2004
- Label: Sofa (SOFA 514)
- Format: CD
|
|
2007 |
Oval
- Released: January, 2007
- Label: Intakt Records (Intakt CD 122)
- Format: CD
|
|
2007 |
Strokes
- Released: June, 2007
- Label: Clean Feed (CF082CD)
- Format: CD
|
Sten Sandell Trio + John Butcher
|
Steve Hubback / Paal Nilssen-Love
Year |
Title
|
2004 |
Off the Map
- Released: 2004
- Label: FMR (FMRCD 138-1203)
- Format: CD
|
Terrie Ex & Paal Nilson-Love
2011 |
Hurgu!
- Released: 2011
- Label: PNL (PNL012)
- Format: CD
|
Terrie Ex & Paal Nilson-Love
|
Territory Band
Year |
Title |
Notes
|
2004 |
Map Theory
- Released: 2004
- Label: Okka Disk (OD12060)
- Format: 2CD
|
Territory Band-3
|
2005 |
Company Switch
- Released: 2005
- Label: Okka Disk (OD12070)
- Format: 2CD
|
Territory Band-4
|
2006 |
New Horse For The White House
- Released: 2006
- Label: Okka Disk (OD12080)
- Format: 3CD
|
Territory Band-5
|
2007 |
Collide
- Released: 2007
- Label: Okka Disk (OD12090)
- Format: CD
|
Territory Band-6 with Fred Anderson
|
The Thing
Year |
Title |
Notes
|
2000 |
The Thing
- Released: 2000
- Label: Crazy Wisdom (CW001)
- Format: CD
|
|
2001 |
She Knows...
- Released: 2001
- Label: Crazy Wisdom (CW006)
- Format: CD
|
as The Thing with Joe McPhee
|
2004 |
Garage
|
|
2005 |
Live at Blå
|
Live
|
2006 |
Action Jazz
|
|
2007 |
Immediate Sound
|
as The Thing with Ken Vandermark
|
2008 |
Now And Forever
|
Box set containing The Thing, She Knows..., a new improv session Gluttony and a live DVD Live at Øya
|
2009 |
Bag It!
|
|
2009 |
Shinjuku Crawl
|
as The Thing With Otomo Yoshihide
|
2013 |
Boot!
- Released: November 12, 2013
- Label: The Thing (TTRCD001)
- Format: CD
|
|
2015 |
Shake
- Released October 30, 2015
- Label The Thing (TTRCD005)
- 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
|
- as The Thing with Cato Salsa Experience and Joe McPhee
- EP
|
2007 |
Two Bands And A Legend
|
as Two Bands and a Legend
|
2007 |
I See You Baby
|
- as Two Bands and a Legend
- EP
|
Trygve Seim
Year |
Title
|
2000 |
Different Rivers
- Released: 2000
- Label: ECM (1744 159 521-2)
- Format: CD
|
Wunderkammer
Year |
Title
|
2002 |
Today I Cannot Hear Music
- Released: August 26, 2002
- Label: HoneyMilk Records (HONEY06)
- Format: CD
|
Zim Ngqawana
Year |
Title
|
1999 |
Zimology
- Released: 1999
- Label: Sheer Sound (SSCD 038)
- Format: CD
|
Compilations
Year |
Title |
Ensemble
|
1995 |
Jazz I Timeglass Vol.1
- Released: 1995
- Label: Stavanger Konserthus (1995)
- Format: CD
|
2002 |
Money Will Ruin Everything[11]
- Released: November 10, 2003
- Label: Rune Grammofon (RCD 2032)
- Format: 2CD
|
Scorch Trio
|
2006 |
Until Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown[12]
- Released: April 24, 2006
- Label: Rune Grammofon (RLP 2050)
- Format: 5x 10" vinyl
|
Scorch Trio
|
2007 |
Runeology 3[13]
|
Scorch Trio
|
See also
References
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