Creation of the Invisible

Creation of the Invisible is the second album on Challenge Records by the 8-piece jazz fusion band Marutyri. Their first album Inner Movements (CR 73423) received a Dutch Edison nomination for ‘Best Jazz Album National’.

The jellyfish has been an inspiration for this new album. Rik van der Ouw (bass and keyboard) explains: “Nothing lasts forever. Everybody knows this. But there is a bunch of creatures out there who chuckle and point their tentacles at us. Because they know they’ll survive us all. Some members of the jellyfish family can repair themselves after being torn apart by a predator. They call this process ‘symmetrization’. You could interpret putting an album together as ‘symmetrization’. Everything starts off torn apart in a sense and is then put together as a whole. We are creators of music, the invisible art. Even though you can’t see it, you know that it’s there.”

“I just wanted to say congratulations! The band and tunes sound wonderful.” – Michael League, Snarky Puppy

“Music that has its own identity. Marutyri sounds like a well-oiled machine that has got a beautiful future laid out for them.” – Erno Elsinga, Jazzenzo

Line up: Rik van den Ouw (bass), Ruud van Halder (guitar), Thijmen Oberink (keys), Maurice Slot (drums), Roy Gielesen (percussion), Dennis te Woerd (sax), Floris Windey (trumpet), Yiannis Marinos (trombone).