What an amazing review we (I) just recieved (Radio Bévort: BLIK).
It’s Jan Veldman from Jazz In Europe, and this one was really worth waiting for I must say:
“With this recording, Pernille Bévort has surrounded herself with a team of amazing musician and shows herself to not only be a great composer of modern jazz music but also an exceptional saxophonist and bandleader.
Personally, I would say this album is one of the best discoveries of the year, I can’t recommend this album highly enough.”
The album BLIK with my septet Radio Bévort was released on May 11th 2020 and it has already been reviewed several times. Here are small samples from the 3 first reviews:
“Whether she creates melodic ballads or rather complex compositions Bévort is a highly fascinating, comprehensive, focused and mature artists.” – Ivan Rod, Gaffa, May 11th 2020
“Radio Bévort surprises with an intensely clear and refined sample of modern jazz from the highly creative North” – Bernard Lefèvre, Jazzhalo May 8th 2020
”The music is narrative and imaginative. Spend some time with this music. The music deserves it – and so do you.” – Niels Overgård, Jazznyt, May 12th 2020
In January 2020 me and my septet Radio Bévort made a new live studio recording.
On april 14th 2020 we release the single BLIK
On may 11th 2020 we release the full album BLIK.
We are looking so much forward. The album is recorded at Thomas Vangs the Village Studios in Vanløse, Copenhagen. A wonderful and well equipped studio.
Here you can hear a snippet of the beautiful ballad BLIK, tenor saxophone, composition and arrangement by me, Pernille Bévort. (A video teaser)
Links to the single you now find under discography.
This is an interview broadcastet Friday 31 st. of January 2020, DR P8 Jazz (Jazzoom).
It’s a conversation between me and Stine Danving where we disguss my release “Gopler og andre Urovækkende Fænomener” (inspirations, thoughts e.t.c.)
– it’s obviously in Danish:
Listen to Interview DR P8 (in Danish)
On the site POV the author Per Vadmand looks back on the year 2019 within jazz and he recommends his readers to listen to different selected Danish ensembles – including my septet Radio Bévort. (January 2020).
He writes that he hopes the jazz clubs will find place for us in their programs in the future.
I share that hope.
You can see the whole article here (In Danish)
30. oct. 2019 I played a solo concert at Æglageret, Holbæk, Denmark.
It was as part of Spil Dansk.
I have created a little video with selected excerpts from that concert.
Solo saxophone and some added field recordings.
Æglageret 30 oct 2019 Excerpts
Blood Sweat Drum + Bass performs my new piece “Close Up” written for big band and surroundsound-system september 3rd 2019.
It’s recorded live at Musikhuset, Aarhus, Denmark – an excerpt
Close up live w Blood Sweat Drum + Bass
I have just created a new playlist on Soundcloud presenting my trio live from Pakhuset, Nykøbing Sj., Denmark. July 13th 2019.
This recording is very simple and it has the energy of the live performance that I really like. Pernille Bévort on tenor saxophone (composer), Morten Ankarfeldt on bass and Espen Laub von Lillienskjold on drums:
Bévort 3 live from Pakhuset July 2019
7 th of May we had a very fine release of this new vinyl with a 12 page booklet (only printet in 350 pieces).
Music by Pernille Bévort and illustrations by Jeppe Grangaard.
Links to the first reviews of this release you can find under “press”.
As part of the event we played a duo concert just bass and saxophone with added field recordings – to match the spirit of the music on this vinyl.
Here you can listen to a little excerpt from this evening
Apart from the release itself we have made a dedicated homepage about this project:
gopler.pbevort.dk/
”Gopler og andre Urovækkende Fænomener” is a special edition – a vinyl with a 12 page booklet only printet in 350 pieces.
Music by Pernille Bévort and illustrations by Jeppe Grangaard.
This release is the result of several years of cooperation and mutual inspiration between the two makers.
The music is created as a DIY-project, where saxophonist Pernille Bévort mixes her many wind instruments with field recordings and once in a while also mixes it with beats.
It’s a sort of sound-poem–universe complimented by a strong graphic aspect.
It is released on vinyl to celebrate the texture and warm acoustic sound of vinyl, the sounds of wood and air through instruments, and to have the advantage of the big cover and booklet format – the feeling when you touch and handle the physical vinyl – unpack, unfold, smell, hear the crackling paper – in other words the whole experience of sensing.
The release contains our acoustic and graphical imprint of impressions and it reflects our mutual inspiration. Large brushstrokes and sometimes alarming sounds as omens of impending destruction or just a slightly disturbed presence in life mixed with joyful wonder.
Acoustical and visual fragments of a diary.