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Pixel - Golden Years (2015)

Posted By: mark70
Pixel - Golden Years (2015)

Pixel - Golden Years (2015)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 41:13 min | 101 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Cuneiform Records

The award-winning Norwegian jazz quartet Pixel is in the vanguard of a scene brimming with exceptional young musicians, charting an exhilarating, improvisation-steeped jazz path infused with the cathartic energy of indie rock. Pixel’s third album Golden Years captures the next step in the band’s rapid evolution.

Pixel consists of double bassist and vocalist Ellen Andrea Wang, drummer Jon Audun Baar, trumpeter Jonas Kilmork Vemøy, and saxophonist Harald Lassen (with everyone contributing vocals).

Pixel tends toward translucent textures, tight orchestration and pop-inflected songcraft. While the sound is essentially acoustic, Vemøy and Lassen increasingly employ subtle effects that provide deeper textural depth to the already charged mélange of bright harmonies and protean rhythmic thrust.

Golden Years is the result of Pixel’s bustling 2014, a year in which the quartet played nearly 100 gigs (while also each pursuing projects of their own). When they started the recording process at the end of the year, everyone brought new songs to the table, tunes documented over five intensive days in the studio. Together these extraordinary musicians created an expansive album and sound unlike any other band on the scene. Still growing and discovering what they’re capable of, the musicians of Pixel are in their prime, and the group’s third album makes a compelling case that these are the best of times on the Norwegian scene.

Tracklist:

1. Rainforest 04:39
2. People Pleaser 02:29
3. Nothing Beats Reality 05:01
4. Our Beauty 04:20
5. Arp 01:56
6. Dani Anana 04:11
7. Move On 04:53
8. I Have the Right To Go to Syden 02:54
9. Slinky 04:51
10. Space Is Going to the Moon 04:42
11. Airborne 01:17

Personnel:

Jon Audun Baar: drums, percussion, vocal
Jonas Kilmork Vemøy: trumpet, vocal
Harald Lassen: saxophone, vocal, bongo
Ellen Andrea Wang: double bass, vocal