Geir Lysne - New Circle (2013) [Hi-Res]

Scandinavian jazz musician Geir Lysne says he had decided it was time to meet new people, make new music and broaden his sphere of activity when he started planning the aptly-titled New Circle, on which he works for the first time with a relatively small ensemble joined by a panoply of well known guest stars. Although his ensemble only contains five acoustic instrumentalists, New Circle sounds as "orchestral" as his earlier big band albums. The key element here is Reidar Skar, a "true master of the computer," as Lysne says.

"It was time to get urban and feel the exciting, fantastic privilege of living in a multicultural world in which music is the universal language." - Geir Lysne