Offpiste Gurus

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Offpiste Gurus: Danish indie-jazz-and-beyound The word “off piste” associates to off-piste skiing and implies a chosen path, somewhere off the beaten track, in unmarked and unpatroled areas. This is also true for Offpiste Gurus' music, which moves freely outside the boundaries of the well-known genre resorts. Offpiste Gurus are a Danish indie-jazz-and-beyound band based in Copenhagen. The unorthodox instrumentation features plenty of Fredrik Lundin's dark, gritty and passionate saxophones, Thomas Vang's warm and steady Hoefner bass, Jeppe Gram's super groovy and delicate drums, all of which is a perfect offset for Trinelise Væring's ardent and charismatic voice and occasional banjo riffs. Offpiste Gurus’ music combines the singer-songwriters’ commitment to personalized storytelling with the tradition for improvisations in a blue-toned landscape, which Scandinavian jazz is so famous for. On Offpiste Gurus’ 2nd album, to be released later in 2015, topnotch indie producer Nikolaj Nørlund has seen to it that the songs are set in tight, intricate arrangements, that cut to the very core of each song, while leaving plenty of space for Væring’s beautifully unvarnished voice and Lundin’s potent and multi faceted improvising. Offpiste Gurus has made a point out of working with larger ensembles such as Big Bands and chamber orchestras. Line up: Trinelise Væring - vocal and banjo Fredrik Lundin - saxophones, flutes, backing vocals and piano Thomas Vang - bass and bass rhodes Jeppe Gram

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albums

Blender

Offpiste Gurus

In Case of Fire

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Danish Delight: Jazz From Scandinavia

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Danish Delight

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Stunt Records Compilation, Vol. 19

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When Pigs Fly

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The Scandinavian Touch

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2010

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Marts marster

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Marts-master

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Marts-mp3

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