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01. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Cosmic Creation 1
02. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Cosmic Creation 2
03. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Cosmic Creation 3
04. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Cosmic Creation 4
05. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Cosmic Creation 5
06. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Cosmic Creation 6
07. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Cosmic Creation 7
08. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Cosmic Creation 8
01. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Proto-Earth
02. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Hadean
03. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Chron
04. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Solidification
05. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Zircon
06. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Plume Of Ash
07. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Magma Oscillator
08. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Archean
09. ARVE HENRIKSEN - First Life
10. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Plate Tectonic
11. ARVE HENRIKSEN - Chronozone
ARTIST
TITLE
Chron + Cosmic Creation
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
RCD 2152CD RCD 2152CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
2/18/2014

Cosmic Creation follows and expands upon Arve Henriksen's 2013 album Places of Worship (RCD 2147CD/RLP 3147LP), a series of tone poems and mood pieces located around religious buildings and ruins. With Cosmic Creation he has gone beyond physical place to an audio exploration of pure rapture, contemplation and universal origins. His latest piece, in eight parts, enters deep space and time to convey a powerful sense of the eternal. Born in Norway and currently living in Sweden, Arve Henriksen was known for many years as a distinctive trumpet player and improvisor. He played in various jazz ensembles in his youth before co-forming Supersilent in 1997, a prolific free music group with Helge Sten (Deathprod) and Ståle Storløkken, which is still ongoing. His trumpet, augmented with effects and electronics, has appeared with David Sylvian, Terje Rypdal, Nils Petter Molvær, Jon Balke, Terje Isungset and Iain Ballamy's Food. With Supersilent he recently collaborated with former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones. In parallel he has created a series of exquisite and distinctive solo recordings since 2001 (released on Rune Grammofon and ECM), which feature a combination of electronic textures, digital treatments and a dazzling collection of horns, woodwinds, ethnic instruments, percussion, keyboards and occasionally his mournful, yearning singing voice. Henriksen's music reflects both the stunning beauty of virgin wilderness and the shifting, cosmopolitan environments experienced by the 21st century traveler. Cosmic Creation is released in a double set with Chron, an album which was first released as part of 2012's Solidification (RLP 2137LP) retrospective box set on Rune Grammofon. If Cosmic Creation is about timelessness, Chron is very much rooted in the modern world and the here and now, with most of its source material derived from field recordings Arve made while touring the globe, or recordings made in hotel rooms, airports and other urban locations. Taken together, the two albums give a full picture of Arve's extraordinary breadth of vision as an artist.