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Melting into foreground (2015)

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Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø - trombone (side A), half-clarinet and electronics (side B)

"Melting into foreground is the second solo album from trombone player Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, and his debut on the SOFA label. The first track is solo trombone. No effects. He is using the whole spectre of his instrument, from pure tones to noise and the barely audible, in an attempt to find the balance between the intuitive and the strictly constructed.

About the second part, Henrik says that all the electronic sounds stems from one short clarinet track, that first was multi layered in irregular distances to make a natural distortion, before it was slowed- and pitched down many times until it again can be heard as 'one' sound. I'm looking for a kind of inner energy in all my sounds, and with these electronics the process is reversed. I’m aiming for all my sounds to have this quality, an outer frame with a complex energy inside."

"On both pieces, Nørstebø keeps his compositional structures clear through a balanced use of filled and empty space. The silences he allows between passages of sound tend to act as boundaries separating sections into disjunctive events defined by dramatic changes in timbre as well as in organization and dynamics. And despite his deliberate distorting and dismantling of the trombone’s conventional voice, he allows a fundamental warmth to pervade both performances."
- Avant music news, Daniel Barbiero (USA)

"He plays with focused control and measured reserve and shows a wise sense of using the resonant acoustics of the Capella Johannea in the Majorstuen church in Oslo, where this album was recorded. Nørstebø manages to transform the trombone in this piece into a unique sound generator, in a similar manner to the most experimental playing of British sax player John Butcher. All while balancing between intuitive following of the fleeting sounds and a linear construction of this piece."
- Free jazz blog, Eyal Hareuveni

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released November 20, 2015

Recorded by Espen Reinertsen February 20. and 21. 2015 in Capella Johannea, Oslo
Mixed by Espen Reinertsen
Mastered by Marcus Schmickler
Design by Ruther Zuydervelt
Music, cover photos and production by Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø

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Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø Berlin, Germany

HMN is a musician and sound artist based in Berlin and Trondheim, focusing on trombone performance and a wide range of compositional and cross disciplinary projects. He chose the brass tubes already at the age of eight, and has done extensive research into both the boisterous side of the instrument, as well as its counterpoint in microscopic sound, utilizing deselection as a central process. ... more

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