Rune Kristoffersen: "Records like that open up a can of worms about what ‘free jazz’ really is"
Spencer Grady
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Internationally acclaimed Norwegian record label Rune Grammofon announced itself to the world in 1998, with the release of Supersilent’s auspicious triple-album offering, 1-3. Since then, the imprint has curated a prestigious canon of experimental jazz, free improvisation, abstract electronic music and psychedelic rock, with celebrated releases from artists including Fire!, Arve Henriksen, Elephant9, Bushman’s Revenge, Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Maja S.K. Ratkje and Krokofant. Jazzwise caught up with the imprint’s head honcho, Rune Kristoffersen, to get the gen on a couple of his formative jazz-listening moments.
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