Marius Neset

Marius Neset – Happy (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 3, 2024 · Comments off

Marius Neset - Happy (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

It is no exaggeration to say: Norwegian tenor saxophonist Marius Neset plays in his own league. In addition, he is one of the most fascinating and versatile composers in jazz and far beyond – which, among other things, currently takes him as far as London’s Royal Albert Hall. Downbeat states, “Marius Neset is not the future, but the present of European jazz.” The album “Happy” features Neset with a new, top-class quintet. The album is divided into two parts: In the first half, playful, intricate, energetic songs dominate. And in the second part, Neset & Band take the listeners into a calmer suite. What all pieces have in common: You can hear the musicians’ pure joy of playing in every note.
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Marius Neset, London Sinfonietta & Geoffrey Paterso – Geyser (Live at Royal Albert Hall – BBC Proms) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 25, 2023 · Comments off

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, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra – Summer Dance (Live) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 28, 2023 · Comments off

Marius Søfteland Neset (born 2 January 1985 in Os, Hordaland) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) living in Copenhagen. He is known from collaborations within the jazz bands “People Are Machines”, “Kaktusch”, “JazzKamikaze” and Django Bates projects “StoRMChaser” big band and “Human Chain”. He is the son of music teachers guitarist Terje Neset (b. 1959) and pianist Anne Leni Søfteland Sæbø (b. 1961), and the brother of the vocalist Anna Søfteland Neset (b. 1987) flautist Ingrid Søfteland Neset (b. 1992).

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Marius Neset with London Sinfonietta – Snowmelt (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 21, 2023 · Comments off

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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Marius Neset with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra – Lion (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 21, 2023 · Comments off

The 29-year-old internationally acclaimed Norwegian saxophonist-composer Marius Neset takes another bold step forward into the art of contemporary extended ensemble writing on his debut recording Lion for ACT. It’s a collaboration with the renowned Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, a project-based collective that since its formation in 1999 has toured Norway with stellar musicians that include Chick Corea, Pat Metheny and Joshua Redman.

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Marius Neset – Viaduct (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 21, 2023 · Comments off

The 34-year-old Bergen-born tenor/soprano saxophonist-composer Marius Neset presents his new recording Viaduct and makes his boldest, most restlessly diverse statement to date. On his fifth album for leading European label ACT, Neset organically integrates a wide-ranging, colourful kaleidoscope of influences with his compelling compositions/arrangements for a pair of extended suites. Originally commissioned for the opening concert of the Kongsberg Jazz Festival in 2018, Viaduct offered Neset a fantastic opportunity to reunite his regular top-notch Brit-Scandi jazz quintet with world-class 19-piece London Sinfonietta, having initially performed together for his 2016 ACT release Snowmelt.

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Marius Neset – Tributes (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 21, 2023 · Comments off

“This album marks a new phase,” says Marius Neset. “It was the last thing I did in Copenhagen, which has been my life for the past seventeen years.” In late 2019 the saxophonist and composer moved from the Danish capital to return to his native Norway. In “Tributes”, recorded shortly before he left, he marks this point of transition with music that has astonishing freshness – and unmistakably vivid feelings of joy and fulfilment.

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Marius Neset – Pinball (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 21, 2023 · Comments off

Artists prize certain recording studios as much as they do producers or players. The room that adequately captures sound and provides optimal conditions for musicians working at the highest creative level is much in demand, and in some instances it is the location that can be something of a game changer. A studio in an unusual place with a unique ambience or history can greatly affect the act of making music.

Ocean Sound Recordings is a case in point. Built on the Norwegian island of Giske, it wears its name well, offering those who come to blow horns, strike keys or beat drums a grandiose view of the Atlantic.
It was here that Marius Neset, the 29 year-old Norwegian saxophone prodigy who has made major waves on the European jazz scene in the past three years following the release of the lavishly acclaimed albums, 2011’s Golden Explosion, 2013’s Birds and 2014’s Lion, a collaboration with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, spent five days with his band in the spring of 2014. The experience has hardly ebbed from his mind. “The studio is in a big house, and the musicians who use it, get to live on the second floor,” Neset explains. “It’s the most amazing feeling to be in this space where you’re surrounded by nature. We all worked from early morning until late night but you’re aware of this unique environment all the time. I mean it’s just two minutes walk from the studio to the beach, so it was a very special place to make music.”

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Marius Neset – Circle Of Chimes (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 21, 2023 · Comments off

The Norwegian reeds star often sounds like several saxophonists playing simultaneously, and, as a composer, he can similarly suggest he’s aiming to pack in every possible new discovery he’s made from album to album. Circle of Chimes develops his growing interest in , with a central role for classical cellist , and world musician Lionel Loueke on vocals and guitar. Bookended by the sombre chiming of tubular bells, peppered with mind-warping rhythmic switchbacks and high-speed improv, see-sawing between stuttery minimalism and grooves, and leavened by airy sax and flute reveries, poignant cello parts and Loueke’s sensuous singing, the album is packed with surprises. Neither Neset’s deft manipulation of anchoring motifs, nor the fluency of the soloists (also including pianist Ivo Neame, vibraphonist , and Neset’s sister Ingrid on flute) dispel a slightly inchoate impression, but Loueke’s vocal warmth in the finale of Star, the -like momentum of A New Resolution, and the pretty melody of Prague’s Ballet are highlights of a venture buzzing with fresh contemporary musical thoughts.

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Marius Neset – A New Dawn (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The energy and the unassailable virtuosity with which Marius Neset burst onto the scene have not been forgotten. Back in 2004, as a nineteen-year old student recently moved to Copenhagen, he won the Talent Award at Norway’s Nattjazz Festival. He then made a huge impression as a member of groups led by Django Bates in 2008-2010. John Fordham of the Guardian described his 2011 debut album of original compositions as “sensational”, “indispensable”. He was the only artist from Europe in the Downbeat 2016 feature “25 For The Future,” in which he was described as “not only an impressive technician but also a formidable composer.” There has always been much more to Neset’s artistry than mere virtuosity: he has achieved several huge and successful composition projects with both classical and jazz orchestras, notably on three of the six previous albums he has produced on ACT since 2014, one of which, “Lion”, won him the coveted Norwegian Grammy, the Spellemannprisen.

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Marius Neset – MANMADE (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Marius Neset - MANMADE (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

The Norwegian saxophonist and composer Marius Neset (*1985) can look back on countless nominations and awards for his performances and recordings. Together with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner, CHANDOS presents the Norwegian here with four first recordings of his extremely worth listening works, in which he also participates as a soloist in three of them.
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Lars Danielsson, Marius Neset, Morten Lund – Sun Blowing (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · May 17, 2023 · Comments off

It happens so rarely nowadays. Three musicians, who all make their homes in Copenhagen, met for the very first time as a trio in a studio. That initial encounter was recorded, and an extremely fine record is the result. The instigator was Danish drummer Morten Lund. The seed was sown in a conversation with Norwegian-born saxophonist Marius Neset and Swedish bassist Lars Danielsson, when all three were travelling back by train to Copenhagen from Jazz Baltica in 2012. That encounter gave Lund the idea that a session like this could work. Danielsson and Lund were already familiar with each other from their work in groups led by Caecilie Norby and Ulf Wakenius. Marius Neset had hardly ever played with either the bassist or the drummer. “The saxophone/ bass /drums trio gives space and freedom”, says Lund. “I felt that the three of us…

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