Fading Sun, Terje Isungset

Ice Music recorded in an Igloo full of ice instruments during March 2021! It is all frozen water! 6 tracks of Terje Isungset solo ice. 1 track including vocal, harp, bass and ice…

What is the art of travel? As we all know there are many ways of traveling, both physically and mentally. Daydreaming is a way of traveling, where our flowing state of mind flies in and out of timezones without showing a passport. Or actually in real time going somewhere by train, crossing new territory, discovering the beauty of nature and meeting people, making new friends and making connections across borders.

Ice music pioneer Terje Isungset from Norway is now releasing his 8th album of Ice music at All Ice Records. This one a live album recorded during concerts in Russia, Germany, Belgium and Norway 2017 & 2018. All instruments are made out of natural frozen water.

This is a unique recording were all instruments are made out of glass. 15 glass artists worked on making instruments for two years! It is a new world of sounds, art and music. All melted together in one expression It is unique. All instruments are new made and invented. Developedover a period of 2 years. There are very unexpected glass sounds and music on this recording. It simply is: A World of Glass!

“My time with ECM is a lifetime by now,” Terje Rypdal notes, as he embarks upon his fourth decade with the label that has documented his far-reaching achievements as both improviser and composer. For this anthology, Rypdal chose to focus on his groundbreaking electric guitar artistry, heard in settings ranging from symphony orchestra to the enlightened hard rock of the Chasers. “Music must have colours and freedom”, Rypdal once said, and his selection here lacks neither.

This laconic yet lasting statement from Terje Rypdal marked the Norwegian guitarist’s third ECM appearance as composer and leader. Its crucible continues to yield an enticing tincture of prog-rock and classical stylings for the weary musical mind. The reverberant French horn that animates “Silver Bird Is Heading For The Sun” betrays nothing of its cooption by a punchy g/d/b constituent. Floating on a well-aged mellotron, it bows out gracefully as Rypdal rolls in like a fuzzed haze.