Ocean Fanfare
Second Nature

Released June 7, 2021, Barefoot Records

Sven Dam Meinild: Alto Saxophone, electronics
Tomasz Dąbrowski: trumpet
Richard Andersson: bass
Peter Bruun: drums

Employing a rather simple algorithm, Ocean Fanfare has created an album that augments the quartet’s original free jazz instrumentation with modular synths, drum machines and guitar pedals. The algorithm was programmed to analyse the group’s existing compositions, together with the music of 20th century greats such as Ellington, Monk, Stravinsky and Ligeti. The resulting material serves as a hybrid DNA, which composers Sven Dam Meinild and Tomasz Dabrowski used to create original material for the album.

The Nature Trilogy was started in 2018. It is a dive into economic theory, effect pedals, programming, graphic scores, spontaneous composition and much more.

Owing a big thanks to Anna Tsing’s book ‘The Mushroom at the end of the world’ the albums is entitled:

• First Nature - Ecological relations (April 4, 2019)
• Second Nature - Capitalist transformation (June 7, 2021)
• Third Nature - Temporal polyphony (fall 2024)