Nakama

31/10/2025

There's a space we inhabit outside of home and work. These are environments of creativity and exchange, where conversation and imagination intermingle. A place to venture into the unknown, to risk and to improvise together.

This space is "The Third Place" 🌿
Out today on LP, CD and digital download

Margaux Oswald - piano
Aurelijus Užameckis - double bass
Ivar Myrset Asheim - drums

https://nakamalabel.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-place

05/09/2025

🦆🦆🦆 Today we release Ganso Verde (Goose Green), the self-entitled debut by Goose Green, consisting of some of Norway’s finest improvisers. 🟢🟠🔴

Klaus Holm, Joakim Rainer and Bjørn Marius Hegge distinguish themselves with a rare combination of instrumental precision, sonic curiosity, flexibility, and pure stubbornness. On Ganso Verde — the title referring to one of the main islands during the Falkland war — the trio explores their areas of interest: asymmetric repetition, microtonality, and "skewed" grooves developed through years of playing together both at home and abroad.

Today is also Bandcamp Friday, so go get yours here: https://nakamalabel.bandcamp.com/album/ganso-verde

26/08/2025

🦆🦆 Ganso Verde is releasing on the 5th of September but can be pre-ordered already now 👇

Klaus Ellerhusen Holm - saxophone
Joakim Rainer - piano
Bjørn Marius Hegge - double bass

https://nakamalabel.bandcamp.com/album/ganso-verde

02/05/2025

Hi, hello and good day!

Today is Bandcamp Friday, meaning Bandcamp waives their revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels. Maybe you know this already

What you may not know is that all sales we do go directly back to the respective artist. And this in particular isn't a Bandcamp Friday thing, this is how we've always done it and always will do it. Nakama Records is there for the artists, and not the other way around.

Have a good Friday! 🥳

Nakama Records was founded as a musicians’ collective in 2015. The label arranges concerts and releases selected projects of the collective’s musicians, each of whom are connected to the expansive band Nakama. Nakama is a non-hierarchic label, respects each member’s musical agenda, and has a g...

14/04/2025

Our records do get quite some publicity, we're just horrible at posting them. This one just came in for last year's headbanger "Quantum Teleportation" by Klaus Ellerhusen Holm and Andreas Hoem Røysum. Music available from our bandcamp

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13/04/2025 Ed Pinsent A Corner of the Macroscopic World Heavy woodwind action going down on Quantum Teleportation (NAKAMA RECORDS NKM023) courtesy of Klaus Ellerhusen Holm and Andreas Røysum, both Norwegian players and equipped with various clarinets and a saxophone. Holm surfaced here in 2018 with...

07/01/2025

The vinyls are finally here, and Oh-My-Ghost do they look great. Orders from our bandcamp. Review snippet by Xiao Fu 👻

Segaki features a story-driven concept and uses a narrative style akin to cinematic horror. It feels like a colossal Southeast Asian cave worm spewing out a rancid epic, carving its way through instrumental soundscapes and reaching the climax of instrumental improvisation where "vomitous spills" unfold. The track titles, seemingly emblematic of the spirit of brutal death metal albums, surprisingly find themselves rooted and bloodthirsty in the fertile soil of free improvisation.

Nakama Records was founded as a musicians’ collective in 2015. The label arranges concerts and releases selected projects of the collective’s musicians, each of whom are connected to the expansive band Nakama. Nakama is a non-hierarchic label, respects each member’s musical agenda, and has a g...

28/11/2024

Segaki releases tomorrow (Nov 29th). Some reviews are already in 👻

"In short: It is one of the best things that has been released this
year, and that means: listen, listen, listen!"

Release Tipps Release Tipp: „The Power of Free Jazz“ Neues von Arashi + Hungry Ghosts 26. November 2024 portfuzzle 0 Comments 8 min read Beide Veröffentlichungen bieten Free Jazz in seiner reinsten Form. Für mich bedeutet das: Energie + Energie + Lautstärke. Oder wie ich es manchmal formulier...

07/11/2024

Great mention of Andreas Wildhagen's Spiralis in this month's edition of "best of jazz" at Bandcamp 🔥🔥

Our guide to the month’s crucial jazz releases.

30/10/2024

The trio Hungry Ghosts is out with their second album in a little less than a month. Pre-orders through Bandcamp now Sounds from the realms of the unfortunate souls and beyond. Limited vinyl with silkscreen print in 3 different colors 😱💪🏼 CD looks pretty damn smashing as well 👻 Out on Nov 29th

➡️ https://nakamalabel.bandcamp.com/album/segaki

15/10/2024

Juicy interview with Andreas Wildhagen and his "Beauty No Beauty" in the current version of "Now's the Time". And for all the Oslo-ites: The vinyl is now available at Big Dipper musikk og hi-fi in Oslo.

Trommeslager Andreas Wildhagen debuterer med egen kvartett, Eir Vatn Strøm deler inspirasjonskilder, ny utstilling gransker Kongsberg Jazzfestivals designhistorie og det er en god høst og vinter om du liker å se konserter med fantombassister.

11/10/2024

Andreas Wildhagen's Spiralis – Beauty No Beauty
Out on LP, CD and digital download

➡️ https://nakamalabel.bandcamp.com/album/beauty-no-beauty

04/10/2024

Nakama Records proudly presents *Beauty No Beauty* by Andreas Wildhagen's Spiralis. Releases on 11th of October as LP, CD and digital download

10 track album