Album Notes

"A somewhat underexposed talent on the Danish jazz scene is Søren Dahl Jeppesen. With Route One, Dahl
Jeppesen has succeeded in making a blissful oasis of sound. " (All About Jazz, Jan. '10)
All About Jazz was among the first to compliment the 30-year old guitarist Søren Dahl Jeppesen's debut
album Route One, when it was released in January 2010. Since then, several Danish media followed suit.
On July 1st 2011 the new album Red Sky is released. Once again the Icelandic saxophonist Óskar
Gudjonsson is featured. The Danish rhythm section consists of Klaus Nørgaard (b) and Jakob Høyer (dr).
Søren Dahl Jeppesen on the new release:
"Óskar Gudjónsson 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 Gudjónsson 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 Bjørnsten, Aarhus Stiftstidende)”
Listen to the music and read more at: www.sorendahljeppesen.dk