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Arcanum

Active since: 2023

The Scandinavian project Arcanum brings together four artists all well-known to followers of music at ECM: Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin and Markku Ounaskari. They've played together in many permutations over the years, but this is their first album as a quartet.

What reaches the listener first is the thoughtful, reflective quality of the improvising and the sensitivity of the interaction — whether the four are playing music composed in real time or taking a written theme to new places.

On the quartet's debut album, recorded at The Village Recording in Copenhagen in March 2023 and produced by Manfred Eicher, sixteen concise pieces move between composition and improvisation, tradition and modernity, Nordic melancholy and a quieter, almost Far Eastern stillness. The playing is remarkably economical: nothing is overstated, nothing is given away.

Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo

by Artur Moral
October 20, 2026

Arcanum Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene Oslo, Norway October 9, 2026  Forget the hermetic allusions suggested by their name; forget the content of their first and only album, even though part of their live set is based on it; and forget, above all, preconceived notions about national characteristics and artistic approaches. An Arcanum ...

Marek Śmietański's Favorite Jazz Albums Of 2025

by Marek J. Śmietański
January 13, 2026

Here's a list of albums released in 2025 that left more than just a mark on my memory. For many years now, I've stopped ranking albums as “the best." Such lists usually end up being either personal favorites or, in the case of vote-based rankings, simply the most popular ones--which aren't necessarily the best. I also ...

Arcanum

By Arcanum

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: 1. "Nokitpyrt" 2. "Blib A" 3. "Armon Lapset " 4. "Folkesong" 5. "Trofast" 6. "Lost in Vanløse" 7. "Old Dreams" 8. "Koto" 9. "Polvere Uno" 10. "Pharao" 11. "Morning Meditation" 12. "Elegy" 13. "What Reason Could I Give" 14. "La Fontaine" 15. "Shadow Trail" 16. "Fata Morgana"

Elegy

October 12, 2025

Album: Arcanum
By Arcanum
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:13

Arcanum

By Lucas Niggli

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Pipe Tomahawk; Ancient Glow; How To Shoot a Medevial Longbow; Arcanum; Adansonia Digitata; Chasing the Frog; Marbelcore; Hallucigenia.

Lucas Niggli - Andreas Schaerer: Arcanum

by Glenn Astarita
October 31, 2014

Whether leading his Drum Quartet, seven-piece Zoom ensemble or supporting fabled improvisers, bassist Barry Guy and guitarist Fred Frith, Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli is not one to play it safe or dodge risk-taking processes. His mantra is firmly implanted in a musical world that is assuredly outside the box, after appearing on nearly two-dozen albums for ...

Arcanum

By Acoustic Alchemy

Label: Mood Records
Released: 1996