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3-4 Weeks
01. Arve Henriksen - Evocation
02. Arve Henriksen - Black Mountain
03. Arve Henriksen - Ascent
04. Arve Henriksen - Leaf And Rock
05. Arve Henriksen - Ancient And Accepted Rite
06. Arve Henriksen - Twin Lake
07. Arve Henriksen - Green Water
08. Arve Henriksen - Alpine Pyramid
09. Arve Henriksen - Wind And Bow
10. Arve Henriksen - Strjon
11. Arve Henriksen - Glacier Descent
12. Arve Henriksen - In The Light
ARTIST
TITLE
Strjon
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
RCD 2061CD RCD 2061CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/20/2007

This is Norwegian Arve Henriksen's third full-length release on Rune Grammofon. On Strjon, Henriksen is joined by his Supersilent colleagues Ståle Storløkken and Helge Sten, who also produced the album. Strjon brings together the various sides of Henriksen, from the zen-like solo pieces of his debut album Sakuteiki to the open-ended melancholia of Chiaroscuro to the dark, brooding lyricism of Supersilent. "Strjon" is the medieval name of Arve's hometown Stryn on the west coast of Norway, referring to a streaming river or water. The nature around Stryn is fantastic and the changes between winter and summer are quite drastic, from crashing avalanches in steep mountains to calm beauty and majestic tranquility. Some of the music dates back to sketches made by a young Arve Henriksen in these surroundings, later worked on by both Arve himself and Helge Sten. Arve Henriksen is without doubt one of Norway's leading instrumentalists and a master of the trumpet, as can be heard on his previous solo albums, numerous Supersilent albums and as a side player for musicians such as Trygve Seim, Christian Wallumrød, Dhafer Youssef, David Sylvian and Frode Haltli to name only a few. As Henriken himself explains: "Most of the music comes from my own 'library' of sounds and music created during my days at Stryn. At the age of 16 I started to make sketches and recorded lots of cassettes with improvised electronic sequences, and over the years loads of tapes and discs have been added to the pile of homemade studio sketches. My idea has been to look into this material to search for a history, for moods, perhaps to understand a little bit more and maybe discover some reasons for why I play like I do." Performed by: Arve Henriksen (trumpet, voice, keyboards and electronics), Ståle Storløkken (keyboards) and Helge Sten (guitars and bow).