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 (SOFA 505)
Format: CD
Recorded in Sofienberg Church
2005
27 Years Later
Released: 2005
Label: Utech (024)
Format: CD
Live at Moldejazz
2008
Miró
Released: 2010
Label: PNL (PNL007)
Format: CD
Live at "Nits De Musica" July 24, 2008 in Barcelona
2012
Chiapaneca
Released: 2012
Label: Bocian (BC-PNL)
Format: LP
Live in Mexico City
2015
News From The Junk Yard
Released: 2015
Label: PNL (PNL031)
Format: LP
Studio album
As band leader
Townhouse Orchestra
Year
Title
Notes
2005
Townorchestrahouse
Live
2008
Belle Ville
Live
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
2016
Ana
Released: April 1, 2016
Label: PNL (PNL033)
Format: CD
Studio album
As co-leader or sideperson
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
2011
OTO
Released: 2011
Label: Self-released (ADA 003)
Format: CD
Live with Pat Thomas
Adam Lane, Ken Vandermark, Magnus Boo, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year
Title
Notes
2007
4 Corners
Live
Anker
Year
Title
2005
Six Row Barley
Released: 2005
Label: Utech Records (013)
Format: CD
Year
Title
Notes
2013
Scarcity
Released: 2013
Label: PNL (PNL020)
Format: CD
Live in Concert at Audio Rebel's Quintavant, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 2, 2013.
Atomic
Year
Title
comment
2001
Feet Music
Released: 2001
Label: Jazzland Rec /Universal (016 558-2)
Format: CD
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
2CD + Live CD
2010
Theater Tilters Vol. 1
Live
2010
Theater Tilters Vol. 2
Released: 2010
Label: Jazzland Rec /Universal (273 341-0)
Format: CD
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
Year
Title
2012
Boneshaker
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 (CTCD11)
Format: CD
Live at Moldejazz
2012
Kampen
Live at Kampenjazz Limited edition of 300 records
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 [ 2]
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 31 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 [ 3]
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 [ 4]
2004
Dual Pleasure 2 [ 5]
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
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
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 [ 6]
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
2009
3 Nights in Oslo
Released: 2010
Label: Smalltown Superjazzz (STSJ197CD)
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 [ 7]
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 [ 8]
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 [ 9]
Released: February 18, 2002
Label: Rune Grammofon (RCD 2025)
Format: CD, 2LP
2004
Luggumt [ 10]
Released: October 11, 2004
Label: Rune Grammofon (RCD 2040)
Format: CD, 2LP
2008
Brolt [ 11]
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 [ 12]
Released: November 10, 2003
Label: Rune Grammofon (RCD 2032)
Format: 2CD
Scorch Trio
2006
Until Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown [ 13]
Released: April 24, 2006
Label: Rune Grammofon (RLP 2050)
Format: 5x 10" vinyl
Scorch Trio
2007
Runeology 3 [ 14]
Scorch Trio
See also
References
External links