Marius Neset, London Sinfonietta & Geoffrey Paterso – Geyser (Live at Royal Albert Hall – BBC Proms) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:47 minutes | 764 MB | Genre: Jazz
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When I started work on Geyser last autumn I had decided I was done composing music that reflected the pain of the pandemic. This new piece was to be instead a celebration – of music, its welcome return and that unique atmosphere created by musicians when they meet to perform. Its mood was to be predominantly joyful and optimistic, while its title was a metaphor for the music’s underlying rhythmic energy, unleashed intermittently in ecstatic outbursts – like explosions of water and steam from a pressurised geothermal spring. (This idea of tension, boiling under the surface, is a theme I return to in a lot in my music.)
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