Arve Henriksen - Chron '2014 / 2019

Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. Proto-Earth (04:19)
2. Hadean (01:52)
3. Chron (06:05)
4. Solidification (05:46)
5. Zircon (02:07)
6. Plume of Ash (02:18)
7. Magma Oscillator (06:14)
8. Archean (04:23)
9. First Life (02:02)
10. Plate Tectonic (02:30)
11. Chronozone (02:33)


 moreHenriksen collaborated with numerous musicians on avant-garde,
minimalist, and Eastern-influenced music, working with artists such as Anders
Jormin, Edward Vesala, and the Source before striking out on his own with 2001's
Sakuteiki. He is also the trumpeter in the improvisational jazz groups
Supersilent and Food, with Thomas Strønen, Iain Ballamy, and Mats Eilertsen;
the latter recorded their debut, Veggie, in 2002.

Several albums followed over the years, including 2004's critically acclaimed
Chiaroscuro, 2007's Strjon, and his acclaimed ECM debut, Cartography, in 2009.
Henriksen's credits also include contributions to the works of other artists
such as the Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, Arild Andersen, Jon Balke, Sinikka
Langeland Ensemble, and David Sylvian, among others.

In 2012, he recorded Black Swan in duet with drummer Teun Verbruggen, and
followed it with the vinyl-only box set Solidification, which collected his
first three albums with bonus material, and a new recording entitled Chron. In
2013, he issued the completely solo Places of Worship to wide acclaim. The
Solidification box set had sold well, yet fans who purchased the earlier
recordings in their initial releases demanded that Chron be issued on its own.
Henriksen and Rune Grammofon accommodated them. In February of 2014, they
re-released it in a double package with a companion disc of new material and
titled it Chron + Cosmic Creation.

Later that fall, he released The Nature of Connections, an album of new material
that was closer to contemporary chamber music and North European folk than
anything he'd done previously. The compositions were almost exclusively written
by his collaborators, who included violinists Nils Økland and Gjermund
Larsen, cellist Svante Henryson, double bassist Mats Eilertsen, and drummer
Audun Kleive. For the next few years, Henriksen spent his time as a
collaborator. He appeared on several recordings including Gjertrud Lunde's
Hjemklang (2014), Langeland's The Magical Forest, and Tigran Hamsayan's
Atmospheres (both for ECM in 2016). He also issued Saumur on Mengi in
collaboration with Hilmar Jensson and Skúli Sverrisson as well as the
self-released duo effort Eg Gjekk Ned Til Denne Fjorden, with Kjartan Hatløy.

In February of the following year, Henricksen's collaborative album with Trio
Mediaeval, titled Rimur, was issued by ECM. The recording consisted of 17
chants, hymns, folk songs, and improvisations based on ancient Icelandic,
Norwegian, and Swedish sources. In June, Henriksen released his eighth solo
offering for Rune Grammofon -- and ninth overall -- entitled Towards Language.
With Erik Honore, Jan Bang, and Eivind Aarset as musical partners, the artist
performed on trumpets, electronics, and voices. That same year, along with
drummer Terje Isungset, he issued the digital-only recording The Art of
Irrigation. In 2018, Henriksen returned to Rune Grammofon with The Height of
Reeds, which celebrated the long seafaring relationship between Hull, England,
and Scandinavia. The music composed by Henriksen, Aarset and Bang, was used to
accompany a sound-walk across the Humber Bridge, the longest walkable
single-span suspension bridge in the world. The event attracted so many visitors
that its run was extended from one month to three. The recording also featured
carefully curated field recordings of water, ships, industry, and trucks by
sound artist Jez Riley French especially for the release. The choir and
orchestra of Opera North provided atmospheric settings for the instrumental
soloists, while two Hull-based actors and a seven-year-old girl read
translations of poems by Norwegian poet Nils Christian Moe-Repstad to music
arranged by Aleksander Waaktar. His improv jazz group Supersilent issued the
album 14.

The trumpeter issued Pilgrim in collaboration with Janne Mark for Act, the
self-released sextet offering Composograph: A Synthesis of Wood, Metal and
Electronics (that featured Mats Eilertsen and Nils Økland in its lineup), and
Illusion of a Separate World with Slovakian guitarist, film composer, and sound
designer David Kollar (Steven Wilson, Pat Mastelotto, Fennesz).

In the fall of 2019, Henriksen released the four-disc set The Timeless Nowhere
via Rune Grammophon. It consisted of 42 tracks distributed across four
individual albums. The first, Towards Language: Live at Punkt has previously
only been available for streaming and downloads. The other three consist of new
material and previously unissued selections from the past ten years, carefully
assembled by Henriksen into albums titled Acousmograph, Captured Under
Mountainsides, and Cryosphere. In December 2020, Henriksen and electronic music
composer and producer J. Peter Schwalm issued Neuzeit for RareNoise Records, a
first for both men. In February 2021, Henriksen and Spanish drummer Jorge Rossy
were co- billed collaborators on guitarist's Jakob Bro's fifth ECM date, Uma
Elmo. ~ Thom Jurek

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