SPECIAL VENTURE

SELF-TITLED

John’s fusion group “Special Venture” lasted for 4 whole years and this album was received with this comment from reknown Danish jazz reviewer Boris Rabinowitsch:
“The fusion of instrumental rock with jazz has never seriously “broken through” on the Danish jazz scene. If it had, one could imagine that guitarist John Sund would have become a folk hero”.
Special Venture was indeed a “fusion group”, but not of the ordinary kind, their music created by John Sund were both powerful and full of atmosphere.

Track Listing:

1. The Entering 2:22
2. New Sign 5:07
3 Sweet Secret 6:45
4. Eleven Sides 11:43
5. Espressivo 3:26
6. Trancewalk 6:32
7. Looking Through 10:10
8. Eventually 8:05
9. Open Mind 6:15
10. Soundscape 3:39
11. Melting Pot 7:07
12. The Outgoing 4:27

Line-up:

John Sund – electric & acoustic guitars
Thomas Fog – bass
Ayi Solomon – percussion
Morten Ilsøe – drums

Guest musicians

Ben Besiakov – keyboards
Morten Grønvad – vibraphone

Recorded and mixed at Greenhouse 1999 Studio 

Engineer Morten Grønvad

Cover art and layout by Linda Balle  

“The fusion of instrumental rock with jazz has never seriously “broken through” on the Danish jazz scene. If it had, one could imagine that guitarist John Sund would have become a folk hero” - Boris Rabinowitsch

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