We don't have that many trumpet-piano-percussion trios in our archives, just a handful in the 17 years that we've been active, and actually it's a fine format, here with Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet, Søren Nørbo on piano, and Kresten Osgood on drums. The Danish pianist has only some ten albums in his own name, and is possibly less known outside of his home country. He is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Kresten Osgood we know well from the many albums on the ILK label that he features on.
As the composer, Nørbo is the driving force behind the music, setting the scene and the context for Smith and Osgood to improvise on, often with sketchy and implicit structures and harmonies, and letting the creative and listening skills of the musicians do the rest. The music is quiet, intimate and subdued, notwithstanding the occasional jubilant horn or dynamic drumming. The performance was recorded in Nørbo's living room, already more than ten years ago. Your guess is as good as mine why it took so long for this album to be released.
The title means "that which cannot be recalled", signifying the unique oppurtinity to have one man writing compositions in one evening, and then performing it in one go. It's not a boundary-breaking album, in the sense that there is not much risk-taking or sonic explorations, yet its gentle nature and the quality of the playing make this worth a listen.
Listen and download from Bandcamp.
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