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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Marius Neset with London Sinfonietta – Snowmelt (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 52:08 minutes | 917 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Marius Neset burst onto the scene with his first album as leader in 2011, and was instantly hailed as combining ‘Brecker’s power and Garbarek’s tonal delicacy’ and being ‘on his way to being one of the biggest new draws on the circuit’ (Guardian). The album ‘Snowmelt’ is his most ambitious, cherished and personal project to date. In these concentrated works, Neset has sought out chaos and dissonance, he has also been drawn to lyricism and tenderness, and then worked at finding a balance between the extremes, using compositional methods which subliminally bring out the continuities between them. The three main compositions on ‘Snowmelt’ are the fruit of intense work during the period from 2012 to 2015. Given Neset’s long, considered process, the scale of the undertaking, and the sheer amount of work, time and thought that have gone into his compositions, it comes as no surprise that each listen brings seems to bring more revelations. There is always something more here for the listener to discover and unravel.
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