Marius Neset is just 25 years old, yet as a musician and composer he brings an astonishing maturity to all his work. He was born in Bergen, Norway but moved to Copenhagen in 2003 to study at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory. It was there that he met and studied with British keyboard virtuoso and composer Django Bates. Bates was quick to recognize the young man’s talents and Neset has been a member of Bates’ stoRMChaser big band since 2005. More recently, he has joined his former teacher’s small group Human Chain and played with the group to great acclaim at Ronnie Scott’s early in 2010.
Michael Brecker was Neset’s first influence on saxophone but he also learned a lot from Jeff Harrington, when he spent a semester at Berklee College of Music in 2002. To these early influences, Neset has more recently added those of Wayne Shorter and the tenor sax giant Joe Henderson. Neset is a very strong rhythm player and perhaps that is his greatest debt to Henderson.
As a composer, Neset’s influences are similarly diverse – Django Bates (with whom he studied composition), Pat Metheny, Frank Zappa and also Bach, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Yet already, Neset has absorbed these influences and found his own musical language for expressing their virtues.
A multi-award winner, since graduating from RMC, Marius Neset has pursued his musical goals through different bands. His main project since 2005 has been JazzKamikaze. With its eclectic mix of jazz, rock, electronica and classical music, the group has had great international success playing concerts in Europe, Asia, both North and South America and Africa. People Are Machines provides another outlet with its emphasis on a diverse range of rhythmical concepts.
Marius Neset released Suite for the Seven Mountains, his first solo album in 2008 to great reviews throughout Scandinavia. EDITION RECORDS is proud to release his second, Golden Xplosion, and even greater things second time around.
1. Introducing: Golden Xplosion
2. Golden Xplosion
3. City On Fire
4. Sane
5. Old Poison (XL)
6. Shame Us
7. Saxophone Intermezzo
8. The Real YSJ
9. Saxophone Intermezzo II
10. Angel Of The North
11. Epilogue
Marius Neset: Saxophon
Django Bates: Piano, keyboards
Jasper Høiby: Double bass
Anton Eger: Drums
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