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Ruben Machtelinckx: A Short Story
by Mark Sullivan
In retrospect the meeting of Belgian guitarist & composer Ruben Machtelinckx and Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen seems inevitable. They are both masters of delicacy and texture, as well as having distinctive and unusual sounds on their respective instruments. Machtelinckx composed most of the tunes, but these duets cast both players as equal contributors. It is a sound like chamber music, with no heroic solos. “Lessness" opens the album with an introspective air, acoustic guitar and Henriksen's distinctive ...
Continue ReadingJakob Bro: Uma Elmo
by Mark Sullivan
After a break of a few years, Danish guitarist & composer Jakob Bro returns to ECM Records with a new trio. Bay Of Rainbows (ECM Records, 2018) was a live recording documenting his trio with double bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron, while Returnings (ECM Records, 2018) was a quartet reuniting Bro with Morgan and drummer Jon Christensen (who had played on his ECM debut) plus trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg. The sound here almost splits the difference; Bro is joined ...
Continue ReadingJakob Bro, Arve Henriksen, Jorge Rossy: Uma Elmo
by Mario Calvitti
Giunto al quinto album da titolare per la casa discografica tedesca dopo il suo esordio nel 2015 (ma un'altra decina di dischi li aveva incisi per altre etichette nel decennio precedente), il chitarrista danese Jakob Bro rinnova i musicisti del suo trio rinunciando al contrabbasso, finora sempre affidato a Thomas Morgan, per dialogare con un secondo solista, il trombettista norvegese Arve Henriksen. Alla batteria siede invece lo spagnolo Jorge Rossy al posto di Joey Baron (che a sua volta aveva ...
Continue ReadingJ. Peter Schwalm / Arve Henriksen: Neuzeit
by Dan McClenaghan
Sometimes making music is more than assembling and coordinating sounds that result (hopefully) in pleasing results. Neuzeit, a collaboration between German electro-acoustic composer J. Peter Schwalm and Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen moves in that direction. The word “neuzeit" is generally taken to mean the “modern era" that began with the rise of Western Civilization in the sixteenth century. But Schwalm's “new time" seems to take that definition on a more literal level. That new time is now, deep ...
Continue ReadingArve Henriksen: The Timeless Nowhere
by John Eyles
Released as a limited-edition four-LP set, including the music on two CDs--a total of forty-two tracks, running for over one-hundred-and-fifty-six minutes--Arve Henriksen's The Timeless Nowhere mainly comprises new recordings and unreleased material dating from 2007 to 2019. (Only the live recordings from the 2017 Punkt festival have previously been available, by streaming or download.) Not a compilation of past releases, it serves well as an overview of the trumpeter's work and explorations. Each of the four albums has its own ...
Continue ReadingArve Henriksen: The Height of the Reeds
by John Eyles
For the year 2017, Hull, a northern port on the east coast of England, was selected as the UK City of Culture. This led to the city commissioning or organising a series of artistic and cultural events throughout the year. One such event was the commissioned work “The Height of the Reeds" which celebrated the long seafaring relationship between Hull and Scandinavia. Composed by the Norwegians Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang, for three months from April ...
Continue ReadingArve Henriksen: Towards Language
by John Eyles
Following hot on the heels of Rimur (ECM, 2017), Towards Language is Arve Henriksen's second album of 2017 and brings his tally of releases to ten in the past five years. One of the more remarkable things about Henriksen is that even though the quantity of releases increases, their quality remains as high as ever. All of the hallmarks that make his music distinctive are still in place, as good as ever--the haunting melodies, soaring falsetto vocals and exquisitely beautiful ...
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