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
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: CDLive with Pat Thomas
Adam Lane, Ken Vandermark, Magnus Boo, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year Title Notes 2007 4 Corners Released: 2007 Label: Clean Feed Records Format: CD Live
Anker
Year Title 2005 Six Row Barley Released: 2005 Label: Utech Records Format: CD
Arto Lindsay, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year Title Notes 2013 Scarcity Released: 2013 Label: PNL 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 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: 3CDLive 2006 Happy New Ears Released: 2006 Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal Format: CD 2008 Retrograde Released: 2008 Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal Format: 3CD2CD + Live CD 2010 Theater Tilters Vol. 1 Released: 2010 Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal Format: CDLive 2010 Theater Tilters Vol. 2 Released: 2010 Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal Format: CDLive 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
Bjørnar Andresen, Svein Finnerud, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year Title 2000 Egne Hoder Released: 2000 Label: Bp Records 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
Bradford, Gjerstad, Nilssen-Love
Year Title Notes 2010 Dragon Released: 2012 Label: PNL Format: CD Live at Klub Dragon
Brötzmann, Michiyo Yagi, Nilssen-Love
Year Title 2008 Head On Released: 2008 Label: Idiolect Format: CD
Brötzmann, Swell, Nilssen-Love
Year Title 2015 Krakow Nights Released: October 2015 Label: Not Two Records Format: CD
Bugge Wesseltoft's New Conceptions Of Jazz
Year Title 1998 Sharing Released: 1998 Label: Jazzland Rec/Universal Format: CD
Calling Signals
Year Title 2006 Dreams in Dreams Released: 2006 Label: FMR Format: CD
Christer Bothen Acoustic Ensemble
Year Title 2002 7 Pieces Released: 2002 Label: LJ Records Format: CD
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
Crimetime Orchestra
Year Title 2005 Life is a beautiful monster Released: April 13, 2005 Label: Jazzaway Records Format: CD
Didrik Ingvaldsen
Year Title 2000 History & Movement Released: 2000 Label: Da-Da Format: CD
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
Fireroom
Year Title 2008 Broken Music Released: April 8, 2008 Label: Atavistic 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
Fred Lonberg-Holm, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year Title Comment 2012 You Can Be Mine Released: April 2015 Label: Bocian Records 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 Format: CD Live
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
Ingoma
Year Title 2000 Ingoma Released: 2000 Label: Sheer Sound Format: CD
Joe McPhee / Paal Nilssen-Love
Year Title 2008 Tomorrow Came Today Released: 2008 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD
John Butcher / Paal Nilssen-Love
Year Title 2006 Concentric Released: 2006 Label: Clean Feed Format: CD
Jon Eberson, Bjørnar Andresen, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year Title 2001 Mind the gap Released: 2001 Label: Curling Legs 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
Lars Göran Ullander trio
Year Title Notes 2005 Live at Glenn Miller Café Released: 2005 Label: Ayler Records Format: CD 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
Magnus Broo / Paal Nilssen-Love
Year Title 2008 Game Released: 2008 Label: PNL Format: CD
Marilyn Crispell
Year Title 2004/2007 Collaborations Released: 2009 Label: Leo Records Format: CD
Masahiko Satoh, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year Title 2014 Spring Snow Released: May, 2014 Label: PNL Records Format: CD
Mats Gustafsson, Paal Nilssen-Love, Mesele Asmamaw
Year Title 2010 Baro 101 Released: 2012 Label: Terp Records 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 Format: CD Live
Michiyo Yagi, Joe McPhee, Lasse Marhaug, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year Title comment 2013 Soul Stream Released: December, 2015 Label: PNL 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 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 Format: CD 2007 Late Play Released: 2007 Label: PNL Format: CD
No spagetti edition
Year Title 2001 Listen... And Tell Me What It Was Released: July 7, 2001 Label: Sofa 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, Anders Hana
Year Title 2005 AM/FM Released: 2005 Label: Utech Records Format: CD
Paal Nilssen-Love, Håkon Kornstad
Year Title 2004 Schlinger Released: February 24, 2004 Label: Smalltown Supersound Format: CD
Paal Nilssen-Love, Massimo Pupillo, Lasse Marhaug
Year Title 2011 You're Next Released: October 1, 2012 Label: Bocian Records Format: LP
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
Paal Nilssen-Love, Michiyo Yagi, Peter Brötzmann
Year Title 2008 Volda Released: January, 2010 Label: Idiolect 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
Peter Brötzmann, Paal Nilssen-Love and Mats Gustafsson
Year Title 2007 The Fat Is Gone Released: 2007 Label: Smalltown Superjazzz Format: CD
Peter Janson, Jonas Kullhammar, Paal Nilssen-Love
Year Title 2002 Live at Glenn Miller café Released: 2002 Label: Ayler Records 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
(((Powerhouse Sound)))
Year Title 2007 Oslo/Chicago: (((Breaks))) Released: March, 2007 Label: Atavistic Format: 2CD
Quintet
Year Title 1999 March 28, 1999 Released: 1999