Ice
from Antarctica and Arctic * Canada * Greenland * Norway * Sweden
Crisply
fresh ice recording
A
unique record release will take place during the 10th anniversary of
the Ice Music Festival, where Terje Isungset launches the album
Meditations. How does one hundred year old ice from the middle of the
South Pole actually sound? Does it ring differently from five hundred
year old ice from Spitsbergen? Can one sense the nuances compared to
a seven hundred year old glacier in the Italian Alps?
Ice
from all corners of the world provides the g-clef of Isungset`s
newest music, which explores the tones of nature`s water cycle, the
changing climate and the place for humans in touched and untouched
nature.
Meditations
was recorded over the last four years, and most of the recordings
were done near the site where the ice was harvested, and when
temperatures were at their most inhospitable. The colder the ice, the
better the sound. During the recording by the Hudson Bay Company in
Canada, the mercury crept down to 38 degrees below zero.
That's
cold. Very cold!
In
2002 Isungset released the worlds first record with ice music. Today
All Ice Records has seven ice CD's in its catalog. Terje Isungset is
counted as one of Europe's most acclaimed and innovative
percussionist. For over two decades, he has experimented and
challenged the limits of jazz and Scandinavian traditional music, and
created his very own unique instruments from local natural materials.
Meditations is Terje Isungset;s greatest artistic accomplishment to
date and offers a unique musical journey.
Ice
from different parts of the earth comes together on the album
Meditations, through the musical energy of Isungset?s icehorn,
ice-percussion, iceofon and ice drums in interplay with Arve
Henriksen`s trumpets, Lena Nymark`s vocals, and Svante Henrysson`s
icecello.
Ice
selected from Canadian fresh water lakes and salty oceans, from
thousand year old Svartisen and Nigardsbreen glaciers, as well as
massive icebergs in Upernavik, Greenland. Anders Jormin sounds
out bass tones from ice, whereas Mats Elden caresses the
fragile ice violin. Ice from Geilo, Kirkenes and Lillehammer blend
with cold matter from Jukkasjarvi, Siberia and the French Pyrenees,
whereas unique archival field recordings of Canadian Inuit and
Norwegian sami people crank the proverbial ice drill even deeper into
the historic ice.
Reidar
Skaar binds it all together with his keys and programming.
The
result is exotic and poetic.
Terje Isungset, «Meditations»
All Ice 1407
