Get warm under a blanket of jazz tunes
On his latest solo album The dreams saxophonist Henrik Pultz Melbye explores his dreams, the places they take him and the feelings and memories they evoke in him.
The music is an attempt to recreate the multifaceted feelings and images that dreams often unconsciously bring out in him. Tracks like "The Beach", "The Forest" and "The Road" allude to places that in dreams evoke ambiguous feelings of hope, powerlessness, anxiety and joy.
As a one-man band, Henrik Pultz Melbye uses saxophones, EWI (synthesizer saxophone), loops and effects to create an ambient, cinematic world that ranges from noise to meditative music.
The music moves slowly without demands for direction or intentions of an ending and offers a space where you need nothing more than just to be present. Some might call it health music with an edge.
With the help of producer Anders Bach, they have created a uni...
Get warm under a blanket of jazz tunes
On his latest solo album The dreams saxophonist Henrik Pultz Melbye explores his dreams, the places they take him and the feelings and memories they evoke in him.
The music is an attempt to recreate the multifaceted feelings and images that dreams often unconsciously bring out in him. Tracks like "The Beach", "The Forest" and "The Road" allude to places that in dreams evoke ambiguous feelings of hope, powerlessness, anxiety and joy.
As a one-man band, Henrik Pultz Melbye uses saxophones, EWI (synthesizer saxophone), loops and effects to create an ambient, cinematic world that ranges from noise to meditative music.
The music moves slowly without demands for direction or intentions of an ending and offers a space where you need nothing more than just to be present. Some might call it health music with an edge.
With the help of producer Anders Bach, they have created a unique release that does not try to impress with technical ability, but instead will give the audience music they can dream of. The album has been several years in the making, with the first tracks composed in 2020 and then recorded at the end of 2023. Inspirations include Brian Eno, Harrold Budd, Jules Reidy and Kate Bush among many others.
Saxophonist and composer Henrik Pultz Melbye has long been active on the scene for experimental music both as a solo artist, where he has released several records, but also in collaboration with other musicians. Together with Casper Nyvang Rask and Anders Vestergaard, he has the DMA jazz nominated jazz trio Henrik Pultz Melbye Trio, and over acoustic solo improvisation and in free jazz contexts with e.g. the duo Heaven with the Norwegian drummer Ole Mofjell.
He has also made a name for himself in the DMA Jazz winning avant-garde rock band SVIN, which in the last 15 years has released 7 records, toured Europe extensively and made everything from music to dance performances, and films to orchestral works....
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