Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin, Markku Ounaskari – Arcanum (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:47 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM Records
The Scandinavian project Arcanum brings together four artists all well-known to followers of directions in 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. Compositions by Anders Jormin and Trygve Seim, the Finnish traditional “Armon Lapset” (Children of Mercy), and Jormin’s arrangement of Ornette Coleman’s “What Reason Could I Give” are slotted into a programme of graceful collective improvisations distinguished by lyrical imagination, reflective soloing and sensitive group interaction. Arcanum, recorded at Village Recording Studio, Copenhagen, and mixed in Munich in January 2025, was produced by Manfred Eicher.
Tracklist:
1-1. Arve Henriksen – Nokitpyrt (02:57)
1-2. Arve Henriksen – Blib A (01:29)
1-3. Arve Henriksen – Armon Lapset (03:47)
1-4. Arve Henriksen – Folkesong (04:04)
1-5. Arve Henriksen – Trofast (04:41)
1-6. Arve Henriksen – Lost in Vanløse (05:13)
1-7. Arve Henriksen – Old Dreams (03:48)
1-8. Arve Henriksen – Koto (05:06)
1-9. Arve Henriksen – Polvere Uno (03:38)
1-10. Arve Henriksen – Pharao (04:28)
1-11. Arve Henriksen – Morning Meditation (01:40)
1-12. Anders Jormin, Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Markku Ounaskari – Elegy (04:13)
1-13. Arve Henriksen – What Reason Could I Give (01:35)
1-14. Arve Henriksen – La Fontaine (02:47)
1-15. Arve Henriksen – Shadow Trail (02:46)
1-16. Arve Henriksen – Fata Morgana (02:28)