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Release Date: 18 September 2026
Label: Storyville Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 717101849727
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Description
Storyville Records presents this newly remastered edition of Circular Chant, percussionist Marilyn Mazur's 1994 recording made in connection with the Jazzpar Project, featuring new liner notes by saxophonist Fredrik Lundin and new album cover art. Marilyn Mazur (1955-2025) was a singular presence on the international jazz scene. Few percussionists have commanded such a wide range of instruments. She reshaped the role of percussion in improvised music and developed a personal musical language that expanded its expressive scope.
Recorded in March 1994 at Sun Studio in Copenhagen and at the Jazzpar Prize Concert at the SAS Falconer Center, the album documents a specially assembled ensemble featuring Nils Petter Molvaer, Per Jorgensen, Michael Riessler, Hans Ulrik, Bugge Wesseltoft, Mikkel Nordso, Klavs Hovman, Jacob Andersen, and Mazur herself. The album contains 13 tracks in total: nine compositions by Marilyn Mazur, and four co-composed group pieces.
The ensemble, often referred to as Pulse Unit, combines composed material by Mazur with ensemble pieces and shorter interludes. Mazur worked throughout her career at the intersection of composition and improvisation, and Circular Chant reflects this approach to ensemble writing and performance. The album places strong emphasis on group interaction, with the ensemble frequently functioning as a responsive collective.
More than thirty years after its original recording, Circular Chant stands as a distinctive collaborative release from European jazz in the 1990s, bringing together a group of musicians who were central to the Scandinavian and wider European scene at the time.
Tracklisting
Marilyn Mazur
Mathias Heise & Pelle von Bulow
Christian Sands, Thomas Fonnesbaek & Rasmus Kihlberg
Johnny Griffin
Ole Matthiessen
Anna Pauline
Carsten Dahl, Reuben Rogers & Gregory Hutchinson
Karsten Vogel
Marilyn Mazur, John Taylor, Josefine Cronholm & Anders Jormin
Marilyn Mazur
