Solo album by Marius Neset. Composed by Marius Neset.

When the Covid-19 pandemic made us all isolated and alone, I started to work more and more on these songs, and gradually the idea about making a record became more of a reality. I finally decided to record them in a beautiful-sounding room a few kilometres away from where I live in Oslo. There was something very special about the atmosphere on the day of the recording. It was a beautiful, sunny and very cold winter day, which reminded me of all the good things I have been doing almost every day in the past year: being outside in nature, walking, running, skiing or just being together with my lovely family. I felt inspired, so I just started playing and recording the songs that I felt most like playing at that moment. And this was more or less how I spent the rest of the recording day. I would let the tape run and play what felt most natural to me in the moment. Playing alone also allows you to focus much more on the little details. I played around a lot with different sound colours, for example using quarter-tones, or playing a note very softly with a particular embouchure to produce a very nice little multiphonic sound which would have been scarcely audible if I hadn’t been playing alone.

• 1. A New Creation (04:27)
• 2. Theme From Manmade (02:59)
• 3. Old Poison (Xl) (03:24)
• 4. Taste of Spring (04:44)
• 5. Brighter Times (02:27)
• 6. A Day In the Sparrow's Life (04:59)
• 7. Morning Mist (03:58)
• 8. The Real Ysj (03:41)
• 9. Theme From Every Little Step (06:50)