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Soren Dahl Jeppesen's "Red Sky" (Dog Day Music) CD Release set for July 1

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"A somewhat underexposed talent on the Danish jazz scene is Soren Dahl Jeppesen. With Route One, Dahl Jeppesen has succeeded in making a blissful oasis of sound." —All About Jazz

All About Jazz was among the first to compliment the 30-year old guitarist Soren Dahl Jeppesen's debut album Route One, when it was released in 2010. Since then, several Danish media followed suit.

On July 1st 2011 the new album Red Sky is released. Once again the Icelandic saxophonist Oskar Gudjonsson is featured. The Danish rhythm section consists of Klaus Norgaard (b) and Jakob Hoyer (dr).

Soren Dahl Jeppesen on the new release:

“Oskar Gudjnsson called me in November 2010 and told me he would come to Copenhagen in February 2011. “Book the recording studio and the musicians and send me the sheets when you're done with the music." I hadn't written any music since the recording of Route One, but Gudjonsson is my idol, so it simply wasn't an option to reject him. If he wanted to record my music, I'd better just get started. I wrote the first song (As The Crow Flies) that same evening.

I brought 13 songs to the studio. 4-5 of them were only rough sketches, but they quickly took shape.Several of the 10 tracks that ended up on the CD are literally first takes, because we hadn't had time to rehearse the music before we got into the studio and the tape was rolling. This brought a nice freshness to the album I think."

Dahl Jeppesen's music is described in this 5-star review in Aarhus Stiftstidende:

“All compositions are written by Dahl Jeppesen himself and characterized by an overarching melancholy and quietly poetic expression. The music is mostly down in pace with plenty of space between the notes and space for the individual soloists to unfold. In some places, it becomes decidedly minimalistic, but Dahl Jeppesen and the rest of the group make the simple and straightforward music so evocative that the listener promptly sinks into the beautiful sound." —Thomas Bjornsten, Aarhus Stiftstidende

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