Arve Henriksen - Places of Worship

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With Places Of Worship Arve Henriksen moves into the front rank of world class musicians. The Norwegian trumpet player has made his mark over many years, not only as the horn player with the consistently challenging and long lived group Supersilent, but also as the purveyor of exquisite and distinctive solo work that stretches to four solo albums since 2001, three of which are released on Rune Grammofon. Deeply rooted in the sublime geology of his Norwegian homeland, Henriksen’s music has developed into something beautifully at one with natural habitats and reflecting the hybrid, cosmopolitan environments of the twenty-first century. On Places Of Worship, he inhabits the space between these two worlds, in a series of tone poems and mood pieces located around religious buildings and ruins. These still, silent quarters and abandoned houses of the holy can be where we experience our deepest moments of reflection, silence and occasionally fear. Making the aura of these places audible, Henriksen’s haunted horn and idiosyncratic treble vocals carry an air of treading on forbidden territory, stirring up the dust of forgotten spirits. As well as suggesting the creaking timbers and salty tang of North African ports (‘Alhambra’) and the whiff of Gallic scirocco (‘Le Cimitière Marin’), it stirs fond memories of fellow musical souls, both alive and dead: the Miles Davis of Sketches Of Spain and Aura; the Fourth World exotica of Jon Hassell.

http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/arve_henriksen/rcd-2147-arve-henriksen-places-of-worship-cd/

Sounds good to me.

Soundsgood2me2

Don't like the cover tho. Probably the typography. Looks like something I could have made.

Has anyone seen this floating around anywhere? My preorder is yet to show up. There's a new Jan Bang album out now too, which is supposed to be stellar.

My LP arrived from Rune, on my first spin right now. More in the Cartography vein than the weirdness of Chron. The first side has been really quite beautiful so far. Less beats than on Cartography, but lots of background sampling by Bang. I wonder when Rune will get around to releasing any of the Supersilent stuff with John Paul Jones. There must be hours and hours of the stuff.

Waiting for this to hit stateside. Glad to hear it's more like Cartography. I'll have to look into Jan Bang's solo work.

  On 9/16/2013 at 1:00 AM, cripps said:

My LP arrived from Rune, on my first spin right now. More in the Cartography vein than the weirdness of Chron. The first side has been really quite beautiful so far. Less beats than on Cartography, but lots of background sampling by Bang. I wonder when Rune will get around to releasing any of the Supersilent stuff with John Paul Jones. There must be hours and hours of the stuff.

Thanks for the info.

I love this one:

It makes me want to play Machinarium.

Holy shit that's good.

Imagine sitting in a rooftop cafe on a nice, warm, breezy night, and that's playing. Hummmm

I want to play that while cruising down the Amazon or somewhere similar. Guess the album comes out in October everywhere else.

Experimedia has it now. The preview sounds so gravy:

https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/arve-henriksen-places-of

http://experimedia.net/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=Array&products_id=9578

Just bought this. Just what I needed.

Everyone should get this. Acquire the taste if you don't have it.

Yeah really digging it aside from the last track. Was disappointed with how avant Chron was.

Chron?

Yeah it came out earlier this year as part of the vinyl/DVD boxset that collected his rune grammofon albums. Pretty weird stuff.

My music consumption is not up to standard.