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Instrument: Bass

Album Review

Danish guitarist/composer Alex Jonsson returns with the same trio heard on Heart Of Gold: Live In Aarhus (Self Produced, 2016), with bassist Jens Mikkel Madsen and drummer Andreas Skamby. This is a studio recording with richer sound, but the band's music shows considerable growth beyond that. The title tune opens the set, a rubato exercise in three-way communication, which covers a lot of ground in its brief duration. Jønsson employs more electronic processing here, starting with the ghostly, ...

Album Review

I Think You Are Awesome: Kiss Your Darlings

Read "Kiss Your Darlings" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 27, 2018

Being a musician often involves finding the right balance between emotional and private communication, an eclectic approach and a clear musical identity. Somehow, Danish bassist and composer, Jens Mikkel Madsen, has found this difficult balance and the proof is the album Kiss Your Darlings, from his ensemble I Think You Are Awesome. In fact, since the beginning, Madsen already had a clear idea of the musical direction of the band. It had to be a band that ...