Arve Henriksen - Strjon [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: RCD2061
Barcode: 7033662020614
Release Date: 15 Dec 2023
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

(BACK IN PRINT) Henriksen is the extraordinary Norwegian trumpeter whose reinvention of the instrument bridges the worlds of didgeridoo and shakuhachi flute players, and with something like a Sketches of Spain-era Miles Davis feel, even. This is Henriksen's third album, with Helge Sten on guitars and Stale Storlokken on keyboards, his partners in the innovative electro-improv group Supersilent. Much of the set sounds more like musical mirroring of changing weather conditions than jazz - the deep, abrasively distorted opening is like a ship's timbers flexing in a storm. Some of the music features a dreamily isolated Henriksen, some brings slowly flailing rock riffs in behind him, some is spooky, organ-churning Gothic crypt-music, some distantly but tantalisingly, jazzy. The two-minute title track simply sounds like a distant army on horseback, but there are moments in Glacier Descent and the tender In the Light that suggest that long-gone, lyrical, early Miles Davis sound. He's in a world of his own, in every sense THE GUARDIAN

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