Precious Nissen Mosh & Asger Nissen feat. Valentin Gerhardus, Thorbjørn Stefansson & Marius Wankel

• 1Resonance07:45
• 2Bipolarish07:17
• 3Bedrag04:57
• 4Yoga04:41
• 5Abovewithin02:52
• 6Precious03:28
• 7Roger That06:27
• 8Heimat Dusk04:44
• 9Hero09:14
• Total Runtime51:25

Info for Precious

Nissen Mosh is the latest project from Danish-born, Berlin-based saxophonist Asger Nissen. The quartet, composed of fellow emerging Berlin artists and long-time collaborators Thorbjörn Stefansson (bass), Marius Wankel (drums), and Valentin Gerhardus (piano), tackles Nissen's original, highly-structured improvised music with a telepathic charge.

The group's debut album, Precious, is a collection of pieces that draw formal influence from Modern Jazz, the contemporary German avant-garde, and early New Music, and in more subconscious ways, from genres like rap and R&B. Nissen compresses grooves into textures and motifs, conceals songs within songs, and weights his melodies not on a tonic, but a cluster of tonalities.

He is brimming with ideas. The band fills them out, finds their edges. They practice meticulously. The result is a unified, live- wire sound: Stefansson and Wankel lay a heavy foundation, and Gerhardus' piano voicings crack open the melodic possibilities for Nissen's alto like light through a prism. Both on stage and on record the group is fierce and exacting, but never prone to flights of ego. Instead, they move deftly over the shifting rhythms under their feet, darkening, brightening, fluttering apart, then rushing back together, tight as a valve seal.

Asger Nissen, saxophone
Valentin Gerhardus, piano
Thorbjørn Stefansson, double bass
Marius Wankel, drums

Nissen Mosh
plays refreshingly new original compositions by Danish saxophonist Asger Nissen. Having established himself on the German jazz scene in recent years, Nissen now presents his brand new band, for which he has teamed up with some of the most popular musicians on the Berlin scene.

The music of Nissen Mosh reflects some of Asger's favourite impulses from old, modern and contemporary music in a fresh, curious and lively expression. The sometimes almost symbiotic interplay between Valentin Gerhardus and Asger Nissen creates a special atmosphere of harmonic spontaneity as well as melodic exuberance, accompanied by the rhythm section that not only lays a solid foundation but can also take the lead, establishing a strong band sound.

Nissen Mosh makes energetic music with harmonic and melodic explorations inspired by songwriting genres, and supported by a strong rhythmic foundation of vibrant grooves, flowing beats and pure power.

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