Sun Ark Sun Ark

• 1 Sun 05:24
• 2 Wiese 02:43
• 3 Ai Ai 04:41
• 4 photon 02:34
• 5 Walk 04:45
• 6 Shuggie 03:52
• 7 Moon.Sun 02:40
• 8 Onfym 06:20
• 9 Crepuscule 03:28
• 10 ArkOne 05:27
• 11 fear 02:20
• 12 Arden 05:14
• Total Runtime 49:28

Info for Sun Ark

The band unites five musicians from Germany, Sweden and Denmark who met at the renowned Jazz Institute Berlin. The quintet's music consists of colourful harmonies and edgy melodies that combine an aesthetic of fusion and hip-hop as well as sample-based production techniques with eclectic rhythms and complex structures inspired by the young Berlin jazz scene. Beats and hip hop are just as important to the band's sound as the European classical tradition, Brazilian music from the 70's or jazz history, and the individual members of the band are already among the most sought-after young musicians on the jazz scene in Germany and Europe, and in SUN ARK they come together to experiment and improvise and develop a new and contemporary sound.

Asger Nissen, alto saxophone
Julius Gawlik, tenor saxophone
Mark Pringle, keyboards
Thorbjörn Stefansson, bass
Marius Wankel, drums
Jojo Mann, guitar

SUN ARK
Vibey, soulful and genre-bending, Sun Ark weaves together electronic, hip-hop, Brazilian and jazz influences to create a lush, colourful and orchestral sound. Dreamy and complex, Sun Ark founder and songwriter Johannes Mann describes their self-titled debut album (Berlin’s XJAZZ Music, February 2024) as ‘exploring a landscape’; a sonic story with a sunny, springy opening track that bends into a red-hot, experimental arc. In Sun Ark’s live performances, the band’s beat-driven grooves drift from produced compositions penned by Mann into skillful ambient and collaborative improvisations, creating a sound that is effervescent and entirely unique.

SUN ARK features a constellation of international players at the cutting edge of Berlin’s jazz scene: Mann (guitarist and composer), Asger Nissen (alto saxophone), Povel Widestrand (piano, fender rhodes and synthesizers), Thorbjörn Stefansson (double bass), Marius Wankel (drums) and Bene Jäckle on flute. Mann, Nissen, Widestrand, Stefansson, Wankel and Jäckle have played in venues around the world, from Bahia, Brazil’s Festival de Jazz do Capão to Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center and across a number of local venues, including the Jazzexzess Concert Series, Jazzclub A-Trane and Donau115. In SUN ARK they join forces to improvise and experiment collectively to create a current Sound that aims to have a profound spiritual and emotional Impact.

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