Marsen Jules

Marsen Jules is the instrumental/ambient project of Martin Juhls from Dortmund, Germany. Focused on minimalism and abstraction, Marsen Jules creates sound-poetics, atmospheric and deeply emotional tunes, combining a classic approach to ambient music with a modern and unique sound-design.
Since his CD debut on City Centre Offices he released a dozen full length albums and several compilation tracks on labels as 12K, Kompakt, Miasmah and Dronarivm as well as his own imprint Oktaf Records. In 2009 he received an award as best album at the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards in Paris which was also combined with a a two week residence in the legendary "GRM Studios" at Radio France. A two track mini album with his works at GRM was released in 2014. On stage Marsen Jules plays in different combinations: solo and also accompanied by classical and jazz musicians or VJs. He played at international festivals such as Mutek (Canada), Tranzvizualia (Poland), Node (Italy), Spectaculare (Czech), Norberg Festival (SE), Marke B (DE), Traumzeit (DE). Urban Explorers (NL), Stalker (Estonia), La Route du Rock (France), Picknick Electronique (Canada). Together with Roger Döring (saxophone/clarinette) from Dictaphone he composed a new live soundtrack for the classic silent movie "Nosferatu" by Murnau, which is still performed live. Another important cooperation is his work together with the swedish artist and filmmaker Anders Weberg. Besides their audiovisuel live-sets Jules also provided soundtrack for Webergs movie project "Ambiancé". Marsen Jules is also known for the releases of his second alter ego "krill.minima".