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Musikalske meldinger fra Oslo, New York, Basel og Lugano – spilt inn mellom 2018 og 2022 – på et fengslende album med den norske trommeslageren Thomas Strønen, både solo og i en serie duetter med partnere som Craig Taborn, Chris Potter, Sinikka Langeland og Jorge Rossy. Elementer fra Langelands folktoner til Potters post-Coltrane saksofon og Taborns modernistiske pianospill finner alle sin plass, i et prosjekt fullt av kreative relasjonerMusical messages from Oslo, New York, Basel and Lugano – recorded between 2018 and 2022 - are juxtaposed and recombined on an absorbing recording that features Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen solo and in a series of duets . With such partners as Craig Taborn, Chris Potter, Sinikka Langeland and Jorge Rossy, the musical frame of reference is very broad. Elements from Langeland’s’s archaic-sounding folk to Potter’s post-Coltrane saxophone and Taborn’s whirlwind modernist piano each find their place in a project that implies new threads of connectivity, new creative relationships. The album was completed and mixed by Strønen and producer Manfred Eicher at Bavaria Musikstudios in Munich in February 2023.