SNOWMELT / Marius Neset
ACT (2016)
Jazz / Saxophone Jazz
About Album
The album "Snowmelt“ is Neset's 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. Neset says of this work that he aspires to is to “find the point when everything makes sense.” For the listener, the search for that point will bring its own rewards.
Song List
- 1. Prologue ( Neset, Marius)
- 2. Arches of Nature: Sirens ( Neset, Marius)
- 3. Arches of Nature: Acrobatics ( Neset, Marius)
- 4. Arches of Nature: Circles ( Neset, Marius)
- 5. Arches of Nature: Caves ( Neset, Marius)
- 6. Arches of Nature: Paradise ( Neset, Marius)
- 7. Arches of Nature: Rainbows ( Neset, Marius)
- 8. Arches of Nature: Pyramiden ( Neset, Marius)
- 9. The Storm is Over ( Neset, Marius)
- 10. Introduction to Snowmelt ( Neset, Marius)
- 11. Snowmelt ( Neset, Marius)
Comments
"One of the most exciting artists in jazz."
Downbeat
"The full London Sinfonietta chamber orchestra soaring through Neset’s intricate and fast-changing 240-page score, with his saxes and exciting quartet at the hot core of the action."
The Guardian