Touch of Time

Arve Henriksen, Harmen Fraanje

Released on 2024-01-26 by ECM Records
Main artists: Arve Henriksen Harmen Fraanje
Genre: Jazz

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Discovered at the turn of the 90s through his active participation in the avant-garde improvisation group Supersilent, then as a sideman for the greatest names in Scandinavian jazz (from Jan Balke (Kyanos, Statements) to Arild Andersen (Electra), as well as Trygve Seim (Different Rivers, Sangam) and Christian Wallumrod (No Birch, Sofienberg Variations, A Year From Easter, The Zoo Is Far)), Norwegian trumpet player Arve Henriksen has since embarked on a prolific and delightfully digressive solo career. Most notably, he has recorded two major albums for ECM: Cartography in 2008 and Atmosphères in 2016, in association with Tigran Hamasyan, Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang.

Connecting the ethereal poetry of Jon Hassell and the cultural nomadism of Don Cherry, while also bringing in touches of his country’s folkloric music (cf. his collaborations with singer Sinikka Langeland), the classical music world (cf. the vocal ensemble Trio Mediæval), electronic music, and his love for East Asian traditions (often leading his trumpet to take on a shakuhachi-like accent), little by little, Henriksen has imposed the paradoxical force of his ghostly musicality onto an album that sounds like absolutely enchanting nocturnal poetry.

It’s as a duo that he now returns to the label ECM with Touch of Time, accompanied by Dutch pianist Harmen Fraanje, who has been very active in the field of European avant-garde jazz for over twenty years. Through a repertoire of original melodies defined by an extreme delicacy and a great lyrical softness, the two musicians come together to offer us music that is extremely fluid, made up of micro-reflections, breaths held over immensely wide stretches, and subliminal beats of a highly dreamlike quality. An excellent acoustic ambient record. © Stéphane Ollivier/Qobuz

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Arve Henriksen

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