OCEAN FANFARE
Nature Trilogy

Ocean Fanfare

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

Ocean Fanfare is the name of an international quartet consisting of Tomasz Dąbrowski (trp), Sven Dam Meinild (sax), Richard Andersson (bs) and Peter Bruun (drm). Together they explore the interaction between the rock solid rhythm section and abstract and evocative melodies. Without ever completely leaving the jazz ocean they set to the edge of what modern jazz sounds like tomorrow.

The Polish trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski, who already have many albums as bandleader on his conscience, has developed his own personal sound on the trumpet. In Ocean Fanfare he creates, with Sven Dam Meinild on saxophone, a horn section that alternates from the euphoric to the dark melancholy. Danish Richard Andersson is known as a bass player with a solid grip on the jazz tradition, but also the will and the courage to point forward. Along with drummer Peter Bruun on drums, they create both a raw swing and a free energetic drive.

Nature Trilogy

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 (June, 2026)

First Nature

First Nature is the first chapter. Charged with the acoustic sound of the freejazz quartet, it pays tribute to biodiversity. The wild growing interplay balances the lyrical and the melancholic.

Second Nature

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.

Third Nature

Third Nature - Temporal polyphony ‘Like virtual particles in a quantum field, multiple futures pop in and out of possibility; third nature emerges within such temporal polyphony.’ (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the end of the World, Princeton press, 2015 p. viii)

The third album in the Nature trilogy is an exploration of open compositions, all of which work with ambiguity. One of the challenges we had to tackle during the development of the music was how to embody these multi-layered understandings of time. The expression is multi-faceted and organic, allowing the intuitive and improvisational to speak.