The recording was made in 96kHz/24 bit using a Pyramix DAW system with Horus preamps/converters and monitored on B&W 802D Nautilus Diamond speakers.
Composer Biography
Jakob Buchanan's previous album, Requiem, won the Jazz Nyt Award in 2015 and two Danish Music Awards Jazz in 2016 for Release of the Year and Composer of the Year.
Performer Biography
Marilyn Mazur, the percussion soloist, is a Danish composer and bandleader who toured with Miles Davis from 1985-89, being the only woman to have joined his group.
Performer Biography
The Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir, founded in 1924, is the only representative of the European cathedral choir tradition in Scandinavia.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Jakob Buchanan's music for 'Song & Wind' is inspired by South African poet Iain S. Thomas's existentialist poems and the natural landscapes of Mols, Denmark, and Kornhult, Sweden.
Composer Biography
Jakob Buchanan, the flugelhorn player and composer, was the first jazz student accepted into the soloist class at The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus, Denmark.
Recording & Production
The album's front cover features an oil painting titled 'Variations of the Wind' by Lars Physant, created on a relief structure by Sílvia Magriñá Costán.
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