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Jon Opstad

@jonopstad.bsky.social
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Composer - Bodies, The Veil, Black Mirror, Rainbow Six Siege, etc.

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Jon Opstad @jonopstad.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Yesterday I had the enormous privilege of recording at Abbey Road with the totally unique, legendary Evan Parker. An experience I’ll treasure forever.
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Jon Opstad @jonopstad.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Spent some time yesterday with a true musical legend, the incredible Evan Parker
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Jon Opstad @jonopstad.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
RIP Gene Hackman. Possibly my favourite actor
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Jon Opstad @jonopstad.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
That Cynthia Erivo and Herbie Hancock duet at the Grammys ceremony was quite something
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Jon Opstad @jonopstad.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Very pleased to hear my track “Diskmusik X” from my album Extensions: Music For Computer-Controlled Prepared Piano used so emotionally in the finale of new Apple TV drama Before, starring Billy Crystal Full album: open.spotify.com/album/09zEbb...
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Freya Hellier @freyahellier.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Just published on @everythingjazz.bsky.social a great first piece from our latest new writer, the composer @jonopstad.bsky.social on Jan Garbarek's beautiful 1971 Afric Pepperbird and the emergence of the ECM aesthetic www.everythingjazz.com/story/afric-...
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Afric Pepperbird – Early Jan Garbarek and the Beginnings of ECM - Everything Jazz
55 years since the birth of ECM, we revisit a record that distills the spirit of the label and its founder Manfred Eicher. Read & Buy on Everything Jazz
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Jon Opstad @jonopstad.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Jazz and ECM fans - I’ve written an article for Universal Music’s website Everything Jazz on Jan Garbarek’s 1971 debut ECM album Afric Pepperbird and how it helped lay the groundwork for future ECM releases: www.everythingjazz.com/story/afric-...
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Afric Pepperbird – Early Jan Garbarek and the Beginnings of ECM - Everything Jazz
55 years since the birth of ECM, we revisit a record that distills the spirit of the label and its founder Manfred Eicher. Read & Buy on Everything Jazz
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