Breathe, by Karmen Rõivassepp Quartet

Breathe

by Karmen Rõivassepp Quartet

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1.	Vastuvoolu Uju 04:08	buy track
2.	I Was Just Asleep 09:35	buy track
3.	Tallinnas 03:21	buy track
4.	Even The Night 04:44	buy track
5.	Breathe 09:01	buy track
6.	Kiik Tahab Kindaid 04:18	buy track
7.	This Too Shall Pass 06:17	buy track

about

This album is a natural addition to the debut, displaying the maturity of style, storytelling and musical interaction. The music deals with intriguing topics of anxiety and abuse as well as politics and questionable love, which altogether sets the sentimental state of mind for the whole record. „Breathe“ is definitely a playful, yet thoughtful and reflective contemporary jazz album.

Karmen Rõivassepp Quartet is a young and prominent jazz quartet based in Aarhus, Denmark. Ever since their debut in 2018 they have continued to grow a solid audience all around Denmark, with prospects of breaking through into the European scene. Their debut album „Dance of Sounds“ brought them a nomination at the Danish Music Awards Jazz 2018 for „The New Jazz Artist of the Year“.

„The bandleader’s vocals are striking in their purity, her range and her pitching impressive. And she’s harmonically inventive when decorating melodies with intricate, scat-sung phrases [...]“ - Thomas Rees, Downbeat Magazine (2018)

credits

released November 26, 2021

This album is a natural addition to the debut, displaying the maturity of style, storytelling and musical interaction. The music deals with intriguing topics of anxiety and abuse as well as politics and questionable love, which altogether sets the sentimental state of mind for the whole record. „Breathe“ is definitely a playful, yet thoughtful and reflective contemporary jazz album.

Karmen Rõivassepp Quartet is a young and prominent jazz quartet based in Aarhus, Denmark. Ever since their debut in 2018 they have continued to grow a solid audience all around Denmark, with prospects of breaking through into the European scene. Their debut album „Dance of Sounds“ brought them a nomination at the Danish Music Awards Jazz 2018 for „The New Jazz Artist of the Year“.

„The bandleader’s vocals are striking in their purity, her range and her pitching impressive. And she’s harmonically inventive when decorating melodies with intricate, scat-sung phrases [...]“ - Thomas Rees, Downbeat Magazine (2018)
credits
released November 26, 2021

Karmen Rõivassepp, vocal
Simon Eskildsen – piano
Adrian Christensen – bass
Daniel Sommer – drums

Jacob Worm/FinlandStudio, recording, mix & master engineer.
Cover photography by Martin Dam Kristensen
Cover art by Stina Leek

All compositions by Karmen Rõivassepp
except track 1 by Adrian Christensen
and the Estonian folk melody on track 6.
Lyrics by Karmen Rõivassepp (1,2,5), Juhan Liiiv (3), Liis Reisner (4,7), Estonian traditional (6)