Morten Duun

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Morten Duun: Code Breaker

by Jerome Wilson
January 7, 2025

This album by guitarist Morten Duun constructs a delicate and indeterminate beauty from just a few elements: guitar, trumpet, drums and occasional piano and voice. The music is a gauzy blend of sounds set in a lush silence reminiscent of some of the ECM recordings of Ralph Towner. There is a dreamy feel to the interplay of Duun's strummed guitar and Brandon Choi's echoing trumpet on “Everything You Say is a Spoon," with drummer Wouter Kuhne rumbling in the background. ...