Sinikka Langeland, Arve Henriksen & Trio Mediaeval
Release Date: 29 July 2016
Label: ECM Records
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
Various artists
Yuval Cohen Quartet
Thomas Stronen; Craig Taborn; Chris Potter; Sinikka Langeland; Jorge Rossy
Stephan Micus
Rainer Bruninghaus
Paul Bley
Mathias Eick; Kristjan Randalu; Ole Morten Vagan; Hans Hulbaekmo
Julia Hulsmann Quartet
NIRAN DASIKA
Richard Baratta
Jim Snidero
Brittany Davis
Sun-Mi Hong
Steve Millhouse
Ron McClure Trio
Denny Zeitlin & Charlie Haden
