Margaux Oswald

Third episode of Talking & Improvising. This episode features conversations in words and music between bass player Jesper Nordberg and the Swiss-Filipina pianist Margaux Oswald, based in Copenhagen. The podcast was recorded in February 2024, with financial support from the Swedish Arts Council. Margaux Oswald has played the piano since the age of 5 and is now committed to the art of free improvisation.Her solo piano debut album, Dysphotic Zone, released on Clean Feed Records, was chosen as one of the best solo albums of 2022 by the New York City Jazz Record.She is one of the new members of the artist-run label and collective ILK in Copenhagen, where she released the album Signals with Kasper Tranberg in 2022. June 2023 saw the release of Magnetite, a live recording of Oswald’s duo with Jesper Zeuthen on CleanFeed Records.Oswald’s latest project, Collateral Damage, an international septet with three double basses, two electric guitars, drums, and grand piano, has now released « In time, hollow oaks become chapels » on Clean Feed Records in June 2024.Jesper Nordberg is a young Swedish double bass player. He has studied at the famed Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. He has collaborated with numerous prominent European and American improvising musicians, including Okay Temiz, Brandon Lopez, Jesper Zeuthen, and Kasper Tranberg. With a grand tone and characteristic feel for rhythmical changes and displacements, he has established himself as an individual voice at the jazz scenes of Copenhagen and Malmö. He takesa big interest in folk music from the Balkans, and has collaborated with musicians from Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Turkey, and Romania.