Trygve Seim, Frode Haltli: Our Time

Ethno Jazz / Beyond Jazz
premiera polska: 2024-09-13
opakowanie: Jewelcaseowe etui
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Opis wydawcy
„Czyste piękno … Jest w tej muzyce coś na kształt pieśni ludowej w której muzyka świecka i sakralna spotykają się, by tańczyć”. Tak stwierdził niemiecki tygodnik Die Zeit opisując debiutanckie wydawnictwo duetu w 2008 roku ( Yeraz) i choć stwierdzenie to jest aktualne do dziś, w międzyczasie muzyczne relacje między saksofonistą a akordeonistą stały się jeszcze bliższe. Na albumie Our Time dźwięki saksofonu i akordeonu przeplatają się w surrealistycznym, magicznym tańcu. Trygve i Frode prezentują program oryginalnych kompozycji i improwizacji oraz aranżacji tradycyjnych pieśni ludowych z Ukrainy i północnych Indii. Album został nagrany w Himmelfahrtskirche w Monachium w 2023 roku i wyprodukowany przez Manfreda Eichera.

Editor's Info
“Pure beauty is the common tone of Trygve Seim and Frode Haltli. There is something folk-song-like in this music – intersections where secular and sacred music meet to dance”. This is what the German weekly paper Die Zeit said on the duo’s debut release Yeraz back in 2008 and while the statement still holds up today, the rapport between the saxophonist and the accordionist has grown even more fluid in the meantime. On Our Time Trygve and Frode exchange counterpuntal glances, lyrical swells and textural explorations with grace, eloquence and utmost nuance, presenting a programme of originals, improvisations and evocative recastings of traditional folk songs from Ukraine and North-India. Recorded at the Himmelfahrtskirche in Munich, in 2023, and produced by Manfred Eicher, on Our Time the saxophonist and accordionist’s tones meet in a surreal and magical dance.

In a musical association that has spanned just short of a quarter of a century, Trygve Seim and Frode Haltli have conjured up sounds that encompass the history of their respective instruments while performing music that embraces traditional folk songs from around the world and freely improvised music. It is this instinctive understanding of the music and of each other’s playing that allows a sense of freedom to come into play and the duo relish in taking chances and exploring their repertoire from every possible angle. […] The marvel in this most intimate of musical setting is the close rapport and empathy between Haltli’s accordion that seemingly brings a limitless array of textures and soundscapes that Seim’s soprano and tenor saxophones accept as a means to elaborate both melodic and thematic improvisations. […] Another beautiful album that brings together the past and present in a programme in which melody and open communication is the order of the day.
Nick Lea, Jazz Views

Eine traumwandlerische Sammiung von freien Improvisationen und eigenen Stücken, sowie, mit Bedacht ausgewählt, unter die Haut gehende Versionen ferner Folksongs. Mir erscheinen diese schwebend anmutenden Dialoge zeitgenössischen Klageliedern nahe zu kommen, in ihrer mitunter schlicht schmerzhaften Schönheit.
Michael Engelbrecht, Deutschlandfunk

It’s a beautiful, often beguiling instrumental set — recorded in Himmelfahrtskirche church in Munich. The two Norwegians conjure a far wider array of sounds and emotions than you might expect from just two instruments. Opener ‚Du, mi tid‘ is all dark textures with Seim’s saxophone work reminding me of John Surman, while the eight-minute Improvisation ‚No. 1/Fanfare‘ is a funereal, vaguely unsettling piece that finds Seim creating lonesome whale-like sounds. […] The haunting ‚Elegi‘ closes another inspired release from ECM Records.
Ian Sinclair, Morning Star

muzycy:
Trygve Seim: Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
Frode Haltli: Accordion

utwory:
1. Du, mi tid
2. Improvisation No. 1 / Fanfare
3. Arabian Tango
4. Oy Khodyt' Son, Kolo Vikon
5. Improvisation No. 2 / Shyama Sundara Madana Mohana
6. Improvisation No. 3 / Fanfare
7. Improvisation No. 4 / Les Cinq Doigts No. 5
1. Elegi

nagrano: June 2023, Himmelfahrtskirche Sendling, Munich

more info: www.ecmrecords.com