Nils Petter Molvær & Norwegian Radio Orchestra - Certainty of Tides (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 151 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 77 Mb | 00:32:53
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: Modern Recordings
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 151 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 77 Mb | 00:32:53
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: Modern Recordings
Out on 6 October, the music for Certainty of Tides was initially recorded with the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra with Nils Petter Molvaer as a soloist in 2020. He had asked several wonderful Norwegian composers to arrange a set of music from his back catalogue. “Have a listen to the recordings I did with the orchestra and tell me what you think” he told Norwegian composer, musician, and producer Jan Bang. Since the original recording was close mic’ed for broadcasting purposes, Bang saw an unfulfilled potential in the material due to lack of space in the initial recordings. Bang came up with the idea of re-amping the mixes playing the music through speakers in a concert house followed by re-recording of the result through distant microphones. With 76 speakers (one per instrument) carefully placed exactly like the orchestra would have been seated onstage, Certainty of Tides was recorded from microphones strategically placed in the large hall of Kilden Concert House with phenomenal acoustics.