Musical Dialogues with Drummer Thomas Strnen on Vinyl LP!

Musical messages from Oslo, New York, Basel and Lugano recorded between 2018 and 2022 are juxtaposed and recombined on an absorbing recording that features Norwegian drummer Thomas Strnen solo and in a series of duets. With such partners as Craig Taborn, Chris Potter, Sinikka Langeland and Jorge Rossy, the musical frame of reference is very broad. Elements from Langeland’s archaic-sounding folk to Potter’s post-Coltrane saxophone and Taborn’s whirlwind modernist piano each find their place in a project that implies new threads of connectivity, new creative relationships. The album was completed and mixed by Strnen and producer Manfred Eicher at Bavaria Musikstudios in Munich in February 2023.

Features

• Vinyl LP
• Recorded August 2018, Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Musicians

Selections

Side A:

1. Confronting Silence
2. The Axiom of Equality
3. Weaving Loom
4. Koyasan
5. Beginners Guide to Simplicity
6. Nemesis
7. Noduality

Side B:

1. Ephemeral
2. Pentagonal Garden
3. Arc for Drums
4. Ishi
5. KMJ