Mette Henriette: Drifting overview – chamber trio’s delicate steps | Music

The Norwegian saxophonist Mette Henriette appears to have turn out to be the quintessential ECM Data artist. Her second album options all of the hallmarks of Manfred Eicher’s label: superbly recorded low-volume acoustic music situated someplace equidistant from jazz, folks and up to date composition, with nothing as vulgar as a drum equipment to sully the fragile sonic properties of every instrument.

Henriette’s 2015 debut flirted with a mini orchestra on some tracks however this long-awaited follow-up concentrates on a small chamber trio, which appears to go well with her fashion. Over 15 quick tracks, she is joined by Swedish pianist Johan Lindvall and the extraordinary Australian cellist Judith Hamann.

Generally all three take nice enjoyment of negotiating labyrinthine chord adjustments: on the title observe, Drifting, and the associated Indrifting You, they modulate down a significant third each few bars, resembling a deliciously gradual model of John Coltrane’s Large Steps performed backwards. However different instances they linger on a single chord – or perhaps a single notice – for a complete music, teasing out uncommon textures.

Oversoar and A-Choo each see Henriette and Hamann taking part in drowsy drones in odd intervals round easy, static piano riffs, finally converging to play in unison, after they sound like a very thick analogue synth voicing. On Oº and Solsnu, the 2 merely play textural results – a wheezy, crackling tenor sax reed and a creaky cello combining to create the sound of Arctic ice floes cracking below stress. On Cadat the three devices converge to sound like a Caribbean steelpan; on Throughout the Flooring, Henriette flutters and growls over a delicate piano pulse. Better of all could be I Villvind, the place a repeated, tumbling piano determine is accompanied by Henriette freaking out in essentially the most light, ECM-ish method conceivable.

Seb Rochford is finest referred to as a drummer for dozens of jazz, soul and punk tasks, however his debut as a pacesetter for ECM, A Quick Diary, sees him composing eight delicate, hymn-like meditations on the demise of his father, carried out by the pianist Equipment Downes and sometimes augmented by Rochford’s delicate percussion. Pacific Walker (Orphanology/Bluesanct) is a self-titled album by Michael Tapscott and Isaac Edwards from the psychedelic ambient band Odawas, a fairly blissful mash up of clawhammer acoustic guitar, meditative drones and bucolic discipline recordings. The Descending Spirals of Time (Orphanology/Bluesanct) is a splendidly disorientating suite of 4 prolonged tracks by New York artist Florian Ayala-Fauna, AKA unsure, marrying industrial electronica, discipline recordings, Gregorian chants and manipulated ambient sounds to create a extremely immersive piece of sound artwork.