Eskild Okkenhaug Sextet – The Sound Within My Mind (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:38 minutes | 830 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
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Eskild Okkenhaug Sextet is a young modern jazz band led by the brilliant composer and arranger Eskild Okkenhaug. Their debut album “The Sound Within My Mind” has both beautiful melodies and exciting rhythms, creative instrumentations and great solos.
A recurring theme of the album is Eskild Okkenhaug’s ongoing search for the music within himself. Over the course of several years Okkenhaug has harvested ideas from a broad collection of music, with the aim to reflect these ideas through his own musical subconsciousness. However, he makes no shame in pointing out to the listeners where some of his ideas came from. This is especially apparent in his choice of including Vijay Iyer´s composition “Nope” on the album, his usage of a motif from Bach´s “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ” on the song “The Horse Treadmill”, and his interpretation on Debussy’s “Passepied” on the conveniently named song “From Passepied”. For it is as Igor Stravinsky once said “Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”. With his exceptional care for details and his creative solutions, Eskild Okkenhaug has certainly made “The Sound Within My Mind” a thing of its own.
Tracklist:
01. Eskild Okkenhaug Sextet – The Horse Treadmill (05:49)
02. Eskild Okkenhaug Sextet – Nope (04:03)
03. Eskild Okkenhaug Sextet – The Heart of Things (06:14)
04. Eskild Okkenhaug Sextet – Yes (04:51)
05. Eskild Okkenhaug Sextet – From Passepied (06:38)
06. Eskild Okkenhaug Sextet – Costantin’s Bridge (05:23)
07. Eskild Okkenhaug Sextet – The Sound Within My Mind (04:43)
08. Eskild Okkenhaug Sextet – What’s Next (03:54)
