Role Musician Instruments Clarinet | Labels Finito Bacalao Records Name Brynjar Rasmussen Albums Arctic Mood | |
Occupation(s) Musician, music producer, composer Website nordnorsk.jazzinorge.no/2011/04/27/352 Music group Christianssand String Swing Ensemble People also search for Marius Tobias Hoven, Jarle Storlokken, Eirik Are Oanaes Andersen | ||
Record label Finito Bacalao Records | ||
Brynjar Rasmussen (born 30 June 1977 in Nordfjordeid, Sogn og Fjordane) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (clarinet), brother of accordion player and social commentator Sigve Brochmann Rasmussen (b. 1972), known from performing in bands like Christiansand String Swing Ensemble, and for writing the commissioned work Arctic Mood for the Polar Jazz Festival in Longyearbyen (2011).
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Rasmussen was known as the clarinetist in the Dixi jazz band Christiansand String Swing Ensemble. In addition to being a performing artist, he also works as composer, and are music producerr for Nordnorsk Jazzsenter. When he went to Svalbard in 2006, the fascination for the Arctic was spontaneous. He has visited Svalbard many times since then, and eventually released his debut solo album Arctic Mood (2011), composed as a commissioned work for the further most North, Polar Jazz Festival in Longyearbyen.