The untitled ECM double-album debut of young Norwegian saxophonist, composer and improviser Mette Henriette Martedatter RolvÃ¥g is an arrestingly original musical statement. 'Jazz' players and 'classical' players are drawn together in her ensembles, but the music shapes it's own world, outside genre definitions. Mette Henriette is interlacing form and freedom in fresh ways here, as her intense and focused tenor saxophone sound moves inside compositions of sometimes disarming fragility. In this music, vulnerability can be as potent a force as full-tilt blowing, but there is a place for both. The recording's expressive and emotional range is wide. Disc one here features trio music with Mette Henriette, pianist Johan Lindvall and cellist Katrine Schiott. Disc two has Mette's "sinfonietta" with thirteen players. Line-up of the larger group includes some names familiar to ECM listeners - trumpeter Eivind Lonning, drummer Per Oddvar Johansen, and the members of the Cikada Quartet - all pooling creative energies to serve Mette's music. The album was recorded at sessions in Oslo in May and August 2014, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Tracklist:

So
.Ooo
The Taboo
All Ears
But Careful
Beneath You
Once
We Were to
3-4-5 1
Hi Dive 1
A Void 1
The Lost One 1
In Circles 1
I Do 1
O 1
PassÃ© 1
Pearl Rafter 1
Veils Ever After 1
Unfold 2
Wildheart 2
Strangers By Midday 2
Late A la Carte 2
So It Is 2
True 2
This Will Pass Too 2
But We Did 2
I 2
Breathe 2
Off the Beat 3
Wind on Rocks 3
Bare Blacker Rum 3
; the Silver Fox 3
Behold 3
Better Unheard (Yet to Be Hold)

UPC: 602547352125
Label: Ecm Records
Release Date: 11.20.15
Format: CD

Mette Henriette - Mette Henriette (CD)