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Mette Henriette: Drifting

Read "Drifting" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Dreamlike in construction and execution, Norwegian saxophonist Mette Henriette's second distinctive statement for ECM exudes a warm, innate ability to imbue the everyday and the invisible with a sense of calm that neither sedates nor fatigues. A quiet triumph, Drifting fashions fifteen soft, safe places for her wandering kin to take their rest. Akin in lineage to her wide ranging, two disc debut, Mette Henriette, (ECM, 2009), Drifting takes the concept from thirteen players to a trio and ...

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Mette Henriette: Drifting

Read "Drifting" reviewed by David Bruggink


With her self-titled double album debut in 2015, Norwegian saxophonist Mette Henriette arrived on ECM Records, and the international jazz scene, with an impressively assured artistic statement. On it she introduced her versatile technical skills, running the gamut from untamed skronk to near-silent breathing, all presented with her wintry perspective--a perfect fit for the chilly atmospheres that have become a trademark of ECM Records.  Beyond the stock-in-trade chill of Nordic jazz, Henriette has a particular interest in the textures ...

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Mette Henriette: Drifting

Read "Drifting" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Norwegian saxophonist and composer Mette Henriette established herself as a major talent while in her teens, becoming a vital member of the country's creative music community. She was in the Aello trio and the Torg ensemble and worked with a broad array of artists including Sidsel Endresen, Karin Krog and Tim Berne. In 2015 Henriette released her self-titled debut on the ECM label. The highly praised double album featured a trio on one disc and a large orchestra on the ...

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Judith Hamann: Days Collapse

Read "Days Collapse" reviewed by John Eyles


Judith Hamann's Days Collapse is the second of Another Timbre's four “quarantine commissions," following hard on the heels of Repetition of the Same Dream (Another Timbre, 2020) by Clara de Asís & Mara Winter. Hamann is an Australian-born, Berlin-based cellist and composer who holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from University California San Diego, where she majored in contemporary cello performance. At the time, a recently-arrived artist in residence with the Helsinki International Artist Program, during lockdown, from March to ...


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