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Trygve Seim / Frode Haltli: Our Time
‘Pure beauty is the common tone of Trygve Seim and Frode Haltli. There is something folk-song-like in this music – intersections where secular and sacred music meet to dance’. This is what the German weekly paper Die Zeit said on the duo’s debut release Yeraz back in 2008 and while the statement still holds up today, the rapport between the saxophonist and the accordionist has grown even more fluid in the meantime. On Our Time Trygve and Frode exchange counterpuntal glances, lyrical swells and textural explorations with grace, eloquence and utmost nuance, presenting a programme of originals, improvisations and evocative recastings of traditional folk songs from Ukraine and North-India. Recorded at the Himmelfahrtskirche in Munich, in 2023, and produced by Manfred Eicher, on Our Time the saxophonist and accordionist’s tones meet in a surreal and magical dance.
Release details:
ECM 2813
Released by ECM Records September 13th 2024
Trygve Seim – tenor and soprano saxophone
Frode Haltli – accordion
Recorded June 2023, Himmelfahrtskirche Sendling, Munich
Engineer: Stefano Amerio
Cover photo: Thomas Wunsch
Liner photos: Hubert Klotzeck
Design: Sasha Kleis
Produced by Manfred Eicher
2. Improvisation No. 1 / Fanfare (Frode Haltli, Trygve Seim, Trygve Seim) 08:16
3 Arabian Tango (Trygve Seim) 06:40
4 Oy Khodyt' Son, Kolo Vikon (Traditional) 03:02
5 Improvisation No. 2 / Shyama Sundara Madana Mohana (Frode Haltli, Trygve Seim, Traditional) 13:37
6 Improvisation No. 3 / Fanfare (Frode Haltli, Trygve Seim, Trygve Seim) 06:05
7 Improvisation No. 4 / Les Cinq Doigts No. 5 (Frode Haltli, Trygve Seim, Igor Stravinsky) 05:03
8 Elegi (Trygve Seim) 06:36