Jesse Passenier, Fluid Orchestra – Lit Scenes (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Jesse Passenier, Fluid Orchestra – Lit Scenes (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:41 minutes | 698 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Odradek Records

Jesse Passenier is a Dutch composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, and percussionist whose music builds bridges between jazz and classical styles. He is the winner of the Rogier van Otterloo Award 2017, acknowledging his success in this process of bringing together musical genres. “Lit Scenes” is a fascinating and irresistible combination of jazz, influenced by big-band composers such as Gil Evans, Bob Brookmeyer and Vince Mendoza, and classical, building on a long tradition of music for string quartet, but with particular links to the writing of György Ligeti, Béla Bartók and Maurice Ravel.

By 2010, Jesse Passenier was ‘Young Composer in Residence’ at the MECC Jazz Festival in Maastricht, and in 2011 he was one of the four laureates of the International Composition Contest of the Brussels Jazz Orchestra. In the same year, he founded his own Broad Music Orchestra, predecessor of his current Fluid Orchestra. In 2012 Jesse Passenier started writing his first string quartet at the same time as working on the first movement of his Fantasy, and even though the idioms and overall styles of the two pieces were different, he came to realise that he wanted to connect them in one project. This project evolved into the unique and radiant music featured on this disc: Lit Scenes.

LIT SCENES is a suite for an 8-piece orchestra with scenes from nature, symbolising human emotions. With compositions for string quartet as well as compositions for octet, Passenier tells personal stories, using scenes from nature to symbolise human emotions. By collaborating with Anne Gentenaar, his musical ideas come to life in the world of moving images: an abstract wild life film is the result, all mixed live on stage.

The Suite LIT SCENES consists out of two parts, one of which is String Quartet No.1. This composition is performed by the renowned Dudok Quartet, part of The Fluid Orchestra in this production. This composition shows influences out of the jazz big band tradition and clear links to Ligeti, Bartók and Ravel. In the second part of the Suite, the string quartet is joined by four other musicians, playing flute, Moog Synth played by EWI (electric wind driven instrument), piano and double bass. This part is filled to the brim with romance and lyrical melodies, packed in colourful harmonies and atmospheres, alternated with tense moments and vivid rhythms.

Tracklist:

1-01. Jesse Passenier – Fantasy, Movement 1: Dawn (11:40)
1-02. Jesse Passenier – Fantasy, Movement 2: Snow Dance (07:21)
1-03. Jesse Passenier – Fantasy, Movement 3: Breaking Clouds (05:26)
1-04. Jesse Passenier – Fantasy, Movement 4: Transforming Sky (03:52)
1-05. Jesse Passenier – String Quartet No. 1, Movement 1: The Zest (05:17)
1-06. Jesse Passenier – String Quartet No. 1, Movement 2: Beyond the Summit (09:21)
1-07. Jesse Passenier – String Quartet No. 1, Movement 3: After the Rain (04:59)
1-08. Jesse Passenier – String Quartet No. 1, Movement 4: The Collapse (05:13)
1-09. Jesse Passenier – Gilded Sand (07:30)
1-10. Jesse Passenier – Wild Waters (05:57)

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