Arvid Henriksen

Places of Worship signals trumpeter and composer Arve Henriksen's return to Rune Grammophon and furthers his collaboration with both Jan Bang and Erik Honoré. Here his experimentations with sound, space, and texture offer listening environments that reflect various sacred spaces the world over, hence its title. While these tracks are impossible to separate from the influences of Jon Hassell's Fourth World Music explorations or the more murky moodscapes of Nils Petter Molvær, they are also more than a few steps removed from them. Henriksen never separates himself from the environmental information provided by his natural Nordic landscape. The lush, wild, and open physical vistas of its geography provide an inner map for the trumpeter and vocalist that amounts to a deeply focused series of tone poems.

New album with poetry by Kjartan Hatløy was released on the 8th of December. Digital release (only) presenting poetry from “Kjøkkendikt” Kitchen Poetry (Oktober 2012) “NOKO DRIV PÅ” (“something is going on”) is the title of this second release presenting Hatløy´s unique universe of poetry in collaboration with the music by Henriksen.

The Norwegian trumpeter’s ninth album feels like an opaque and ambient jazz album you can walk right into. Truly, his instrument always seems on the verge of speaking.