My review of Arve Henriksen's Chron | Cosmic Creation, today @ All About Jazz.

Despite the suggested evidence of 2008's Cartography (ECM) and 2013's follow-up, Places of Worship (Rune Grammofon), trumpeter Arve Henriksen's career has not only been about the intrinsic—and deeply personal—lyricism that defined those recordings, as well as the three Rune Grammofon recordings that preceded them—2007's Strjon, 2004's Chiaroscuro and 2001's Sakuteiki, those three recordings collected in the beautiful limited-edition vinyl box Solidification (Rune Grammofon, 2012). It should not be neglected that Henriksen remains a founding member of seminal noise improv group Supersilent, whose last release, the vinyl-only 11 (Rune Grammofon, 2010), was culled from the same sessions as 8 (Rune Grammofon, 2008), making the abnormally acoustic-centric 10 (Rune Grammofon, 2010) its most recent recording to date, though the group still continues to perform and collect recorded music for the yet-to- be-issued (but predictably titled) 12.

Along with the three two-LP sets that reissued Henriksen's first three Rune Grammofon titles with some well-chosen bonus material, Solidification included a seventh LP, Chron, that demonstrated Henriksen's truly pathological addiction to music, recorded—as he indicates in this overdue CD release of that recording, along with another disc, Cosmic Creation—"at home and in various locations such as hotels, airports, planes, railway stations and backstage in Norway, Sweden, Germany and Italy." For Henriksen, music is something to be found anywhere, anytime and on anything —beyond his trumpet, voice and electronics, Henriksen's music can come from found sound sources, or from instruments that serendipitously happen to be where he is; he also believes that music can be recorded anywhere, from a quiet corner in an airport with just his trumpet, a microphone and laptop computer, to more formal recording environs like Hilding Studio in Möinlycke, Sweden, where all but one of Cosmic Creation's eight tracks were laid down.

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