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Arve Henriksen (t, v), Jan Bang (elec), Audun Kleive (perc), David Sylvian (v, elec), Helge Sunde (arr, elec), Eivind Aarset (g), Lars Danielsson (b), Erik Honoré (syn, elec), Arnaud Mercier (elec), Trio Mediaeval, Vérène Andronikof (v) and Vytas Sonndeckis (arr). Rec. 2005-6. **** This is quite lovely. Henriksen first impressed with Iain Ballamy and Food. Since then, he has grown in stature and Cartography marks his emergence as an important composer. An admirer of the ambient minimalism of Brian Eno and Jon Hassell, this record is a remarkable tapestry of episodic collaborations and, as such, it also recalls some of Gavin Bryars’ work. Improvisation permeates the whole record and even part of the process of its assembly. Electronic experimenters, Jan Bang and Erik Honoré, are perhaps the key collaborators here with other performers and contributors being used as much for their colouration and textural qualities. Music like this seems to suspend time, moving slowly across the landscape with cautious grace. It is more concerned with the journey than with its start and end points. Some might find it unemotional but for me it allows rather than prompts one’s own reflections. It’s like the state of neither waking nor sleeping known as “hypnogogic”, in which sounds and images of the day flash through the mind without ever becoming defined. The tracks that use voices – ‘Recording Angel’, ‘Assembly’, ‘Famine’s Ghost’ – are most effective but then it’s Henriksen’s vocalised trumpet that leaves the dominant impression in one’s mind on this fine album. Excellent. Duncan Heining
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