Sinikka Langeland, Arve Henriksen & Trio Mediaeval
Release Date: 29 July 2016
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602547768315
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
The colours of The Magical Forest glow in this remarkable recording which brings together the improvisers of Sinikka Langeland's 'Starflowers' quintet with the singers of the Trio Medieval.
Langeland, singer-harpist and verse-maker of Finnskogen in Eastern Norway, here looks at of regional traces and fragments of ideas about axis mundi, the world tree: "I have transformed these fragments and some parallel stories into songs that are encircled by instrumental passages and improvisations by the musicians. Mircea Eliade comments on axis mundi that, 'every Microcosm, every inhabited region, has a Centre; that is to say, a place that is sacred above all.'"
The Magical Forest was recorded at Oslo's Rainbow Studio in February 2015, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Personnel: Sinikka Langeland (kantele, vocals), Trygve Seim (soprano & tenor saxophones), Arve Henriksen (trumpet), Anders Jormin (double bass), Markku Ounaskari (drums, percussion), Trio Mediaeval - Anna Maria Friman, Berit Opheim, Linn Andrea Fuglseth (vocals)
Tracklisting
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland & Bill Frisell
Fred Hersch
John Taylor, Norma Winstone & Kenny Wheeler
Keith Jarrett & Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek Quartet
John Surman
Nigel Price Organ Trio
Conrad Herwig
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Su Rossy Girod, Nat Su, Jorge Rossy
Jonathan Salvi Arugula Sextet
Bob Baldwin
Steven Nichols
