New Album With Øyvind Brække Sextet Out: "From Now On"

The ensemble represents a long awaited forum for Brække to compose for a smaller chamber format, a kind of music rooted in modern jazz, with inspirations from both American and European Jazz influences the last 40 years, yet mixed with elements of classical Western music, rock, and hints of folk music. By August 2023 the band has performed 20 concerts since its start in the fall of 2019, - all over Norway and in Germany and Austria.

The musicians are: Øyvind Brække - trombone, Jørgen Mathisen - saxophones, Jacob Young - guitar, Bergmund Waal Skaslien - viola, Bárður Reinert Poulsen - bass, Erik Nylander -drums

The musicians in the group are all frequent instrumentalists and band leaders with projects on the Scandinavian Jazz scene as well as in Europe and other parts of the world. The album, entitled «From Now On» was recorded in Athletic Sound in Halden in South Eastern Norway, with engineer Dag Erik Johansen, and the final mix was done by Erik Nylander in his Monkey Bar studio. The mastering was made by Fridtjof Lindeman at Svenska Grammofon, Gothenburg.

«From Now On» is a collection of six pieces - for six musicians, all small considerations or remarks over our current times; there are reflections on the pandemic period; like a hymn inspired of the 1920s musically juxtapposed to our current 2020s, and the «Plexi Encounters» - a looped groove that rides down the plexi barriers we found in all shops were rund down hard. You also find other musical reactions over modern life the last few years throughout the album!

The music is solely written by Brække, in a melodic jazz landscape. The viola in the ensemble gives the most obvious connotations towards more Western classical music and the folk influences at times.

For more information use this email: jacob@jacobyoung.no