Eskild Okkenhaug Sextet - The Sound Within My Mind (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Eskild Okkenhaug Sextet is a young modern jazz band led by the brilliant composer and arranger Eskild Okkenhaug. Their debut album "The Sound Within My Mind" has both beautiful melodies and exciting rhythms, creative instrumentations and great solos.

A recurring theme of the album is Eskild Okkenhaug's ongoing search for the music within himself. Over the course of several years Okkenhaug has harvested ideas from a broad collection of music, with the aim to reflect these ideas through his own musical subconsciousness. However, he makes no shame in pointing out to the listeners where some of his ideas came from. This is especially apparent in his choice of including Vijay Iyer´s composition “Nope” on the album, his usage of a motif from Bach´s “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ” on the song “The Horse Treadmill”, and his interpretation on Debussy's “Passepied” on the conveniently named song “From Passepied”. For it is as Igor Stravinsky once said “Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”. With his exceptional care for details and his creative solutions, Eskild Okkenhaug has certainly made “The Sound Within My Mind” a thing of its own.

Oscar Andreas Haug - trumpet, Erlend Vangen Kongtorp - alto sax, Zakarias Meyer Øverli - tenor sax, Philip Johannes Edwards Granly - piano, Eskild Sveås Okkenhaug - upright bass, Rino Sivathas - drums

Tracklist
01. The Horse Treadmill
02. Nope
03. The Heart of Things
04. Yes
05. From Passepied
06. Costantin's Bridge
07. The Sound Within My Mind
08. What's Next