Casper Hejlesen - Minimalism (2024)

Casper is a young, critically acclaimed jazz guitarist, composer, and improviser from Denmark. And we had a wonderful time in the studio recording a couple of tunes and improvisations.

The album title "Minimalism" obviously refers to minimalistic music, which ironically isn’t the case for this album. Minimalism has been - for me - not a style, but more like a mentality that has helped me restraining myself in both terms of composition and improvisation.

The creative process leading up to this album has in general given me more faith in myself as an artist.

"I learned – and I am still learning – how to respect the music and the space surrounding it, which basically means that I decided to stop playing to impress people and instead started playing for the sake of playing music." (Casper Hejlesen)

Casper Hejlesen, guitar
Guests:
Ruhi Erdogan, trumpet
Martin Brunbjerg Rasmussen, bass
Lasse Jacobsen, drums

Recorded March 2023 at Finland Studio in Aarhus Engineered by Jacob Schjødt Worm