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Mette Henriette - Mette Henriette

Aside from the eerily minimal magic of her music, this ECM debut by the young Norwegian saxophonist and composer Mette Henriette Rølvåg is a classic testament to the German label’s method. Find the quietest, most privately contemplative sax debutante around, and let her make a double album that doesn’t have a title, on which nine tracks have elapsed before she emerges from evaporating sighs and high-register flutters and whispers (the recording often catches the moistness and crackle of her sax-reed) to take a decisively central role. Yet the details are fascinating: sounds not unlike an insect buzzing in the sun (the first disc features Rølvåg’s saxophone accompanied only by pianist Johan Lindvall and the sonically resourceful cellist Katrine Schiøtt), gong-like piano repetitions that draw the saxophonist out of hiding, plaintive Jan Garbarek-like sweeps. The second disc features a 13-piece band, and often sounds more composed and upfront, and thematically inviting. The set may be an acquired taste for some, but Mette Henriette is a contemporary-music star on the rise.

Contemporary Jazz
2015
Norway
FLAC (*.flac)
tracks+.cue
lossless
00:42:11 / 00:57:38

CD1

01. so [01:41]
02. .oOo. [03:47]
03. the taboo [01:58]
04. all ears [03:57]
05. but careful [01:03]
06. beneath you [03:13]
07. once [03:55]
08. we were to [00:57]
09. 3-4-5 [02:02]
10. hi dive [02:54]
11. a void [04:31]
12. the lost one [01:14]
13. in circles [03:44]
14. I do [03:52]
15. O [03:18]

CD2

01. passé [05:01]
02. pearl rafter [01:05]
03. veils ever after [01:56]
04. unfold [00:43]
05. wildheart [05:46]
06. strangers by midday [02:51]
07. late à la carte [04:11]
08. so it is [01:38]
09. ? [03:34]
10. true [00:47]
11. this will pass too [01:01]
12. but we did [03:50]
13. I [08:09]
14. breathe [04:01]
15. off the beat [01:52]
16. wind on rocks [06:34]
17. bare blacker rum [01:52]
18. & the silver fox [01:42]
19. behold [01:01]
20. better unheard (yet to be told) [01:12]