Pixel - Golden Years vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) (Mega Blowout Sale)
SKU
Rune 412-v
Note that these are NOT cut or marked in any way, but the download codes included with the vinyl may not work. C’est la vie!
"...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.
Led by the dynamic double bassist, vocalist, and songwriter Ellen Andrea Wang, Pixel features drummer Jon Audun Baar, trumpeter Jonas Kilmork Vemoy, and saxophonist Harald Lassen (with everyone contributing vocals). While the band's instrumentation brings to mind Ornette Coleman's seminal free jazz quartet of the late 1950s, Pixel tends more toward translucent textures, tight orchestration and pop-inflected songcraft than harmelodic hurly burly. While the sound is essentially acoustic, Vemoy and Lassen increasingly employ subtle effects that provide deeper textural depth to the already charged melange 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 compelling third album makes a case that these are the best of times on the Oslo scene.
- LabelCuneiform
- UPC045775041216