Frode Haltli – Avant Folk Triptyk (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Frode Haltli – Avant Folk Triptyk (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:11 minutes | 736 MB | Genre: Jazz, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazzland Recordings

Frode Haltli ‘Avant Folk’ is an all-star cast of Norwegian musicians spanning all ages, generations and genres, an elaboration of Frode Haltli’s work somewhere in the twilight zone between jazz, contemporary and folk music. Jazzland Recordings is proud to present «Avant Folk Triptyk», the third album by this exceptional constellation of musicians led by one of the Norwegian scene’s most unique and innovative band leaders.

(more…)

Read more

Frode Haltli, Arditti Quartet & Trondheim Soloists – Air (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Frode Haltli, Arditti Quartet & Trondheim Soloists – Air (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:51 minutes | 744 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series

Frode Haltli, the uniquely expressive Norwegian accordionist, is heard here with chamber orchestra, with string quartet and solo, performing music by Danish composers Bent Sørensen (b. 1958) and Hans Abrahamsen (b. 1952). Haltli plays Sørensen’s It is Pain Flowing Down Softly on a White Wall with the Trondheim Soloists, as well as the solo piece Sigrid’s Lullaby. Hans Abrahamsen’s Three Little Nocturnes find the accordionist in the company of the redoubtable Arditti Quartet, “a vital institution in contemporary music” as Haltli says. For the title composition Air, Hans Abrahamsen returned, at Frode Haltli’s suggestion, to the early solo work Canzona, revising it until it became a new piece. Of Abrahamsen’s music, Frode Haltli writes that “not one note is accidental, nor are any of the other specifications. Sometimes, this results in very complex music, while a moment later it is so simple that it seems a child could perform it. He writes music that can be on the verge of being discomforting, while at the same time it is indescribably lovely.”

(more…)

Read more

Frode Haltli – Avant Folk II (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Frode Haltli – Avant Folk II (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:23 minutes | 442 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hubro

The opening track of ‘Avant Folk’ is like a dream of what contemporary experimental folk-meets-jazz-meets-chamber-music might be. Composed by Frode Haltli, ‘Hug’ begins with a galumphing off-centre rhythm that could be an accompaniment to elephants waltzing before the wheezing bellows-breath of Haltli’s accordion creates delightfully airy whispers of noise that drift across the other instruments like wisps of cloud across the sky.

(more…)

Read more
%d bloggers like this: