Brask

God Only Knows (Beach Boys cover)

Kaisei

"Camel Blue" from my upcoming album "Feeling / Emotion" on NORCD.

Kristoffer Eikrem - trumpet
Kjetil Jerve - piano

Camel Blue

Second track off our new record "Bits & Pieces" 

Composed by Harald Lassen, mixed by David Aleksander Sjølie.

Harald Lassen - saxophones, vocal
Kristoffer Eikrem - trumpet
David Aleksander Sjølie - guitar, vocal
Christian Meaas Svendsen - bass
Andreas Wildhagen - drums
Bendik Baksaas - turntables, synth, laptop

How Low Will You Go?

Melody

Improvisation over All The Things You Are with:

Kjetil Jerve - piano
Mariusz Wiater - bass

All The Things You Are Impro

"...a quirky, catchy blend of pop hooks and jazz-centric soloing...it's rare for a group so young to emerge with such a fully formed and distinctive concept, but Pixel seems to have accomplished just that."
– AllAboutJazz

“The first thirty seconds of this album was enough to tell me that I would probably like Norwegian band Pixel. I did...this band has something new to say musically and produces tunes that are toe-tappingly, wantonly catchy."
– London Jazz News

"...unique and compelling."
– Expose

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.

Pixel, "Nothing Beats Reality" from 'Golden Years' (Cuneiform Records)

Bits & Pieces OUT NOW on Jazzland Recordings. Collab album with Bendik Baksaas - a playful exploration of the musical land of jazz, abstract hiphop and electronic music. Join us!

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Melody

Mopti