{"product_id":"precious","title":"Precious","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNissen Mosh\u003c\/strong\u003e is the latest project from Danish-born, Berlin-based saxophonist \u003cstrong\u003eAsger Nissen\u003c\/strong\u003e. The quartet, composed of fellow emerging Berlin artists and long-time collaborators \u003cstrong\u003eThorbjørn Stefansson\u003c\/strong\u003e (bass), \u003cstrong\u003eMarius Wankel\u003c\/strong\u003e (drums), and \u003cstrong\u003eValentin Gerhardus\u003c\/strong\u003e (piano), tackles Nissen's original, highly-structured improvised music with a telepathic charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe group's debut album, \u003cem\u003ePrecious\u003c\/em\u003e, is a collection of pieces that draw formal influence from Modern Jazz, the contemporary German avant-garde, and early New Music, and in more subconscious ways, from genres like rap and R\u0026amp;B. Nissen compresses grooves into textures and motifs, conceals songs within songs, and weights his melodies not on a tonic, but a cluster of tonalities. He is brimming with ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe band fills them out, finds their edges. They practice meticulously. The result is a unified, live-wire sound: Stefansson and Wankel lay a heavy foundation, and Gerhardus' piano voicings crack open the melodic possibilities for Nissen's alto like light through a prism. Both on stage and on record the group is fierce and exacting, but never prone to flights of ego.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInstead, they move deftly over the shifting rhythms under their feet, darkening, brightening, fluttering apart, then rushing back together, tight as a valve seal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Enja","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50478877245771,"sku":"2016767","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_b2f855e8_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727493708","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/precious","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}