Reviews RCD2152
"Chron" was originally part of Henriksen´s superlative "Solidification" box set and is made up of short bursts of electronic pops and splats, as though bursting the bubble wrap of the soul, interspersed with Henriksen´s never more plaintive horn wandering alone through foreign soils. "Cosmic Creation" takes to stranger territories still, setting down upon ever-shifting musical ground where tectonic plates shift and something vast and unknowable is in the process of being born.
Rock-a-Rolla (UK)
Norwegian trumpeter / soundscaper Henriksen's last album, the critically lauded Places of Worship, proved so listenable that it almost risked popularity. This is his experimental revenge. Chron, which appeared in vinyl form as part of the seven-LP box-set Solidification, is a kind of electronica audio-diary recorded at home and in transit (hotels, airports, backstage). More sound than music, it's sort-of-interesting but hardly essential and unlikely to be played very often. In contrast, Cosmic Creation is the real Henriksen deal, with each of the eight numbered parts repaying close attention as the instrumental textures gradually take shape and then build into long-form coherence. It's wispy ambient music with a thrilling sense of danger.
Independent On Sunday (UK)
Equally spiritual is "Cosmic Creation", the new album from trumpeter Arve Henriksen. Paired with "Chron" for release - an album previously exclusive to last year's "Solidification" box set - "Cosmic Creation" is made up from eight interlinked sections which shift from sounds evoking the rumbling of the surface of the sun to rays of light breaking over the horizon.
The Artsdesk (UK)
Arve Henriksen follows up last year´s superlative "Places Of Worship" with a double-header comprising "Chron" with a brand new opus "Cosmic Creation". The latter, the best of the two, is a suite comprising eight pieces and illustrates the trumpeter´s brilliance at creating deeply meditative and atmospheric soundscapes. 4/5.
Record Collector (UK)
In a departure from earlier, more romantic efforts, this double album sees Arve Henriksen move towards manipulating sound to reveal the tensions between direct physical experience of the world and the intervening layers of technology that surround it, often unnoticed. He amplifies the weirdness of these interventions to make the everyday sound alien, and vice versa.
The Wire (UK)
"Otherwordly" is a word that characterizes the sound of Arve Henriksen's latest solo work. There are two CDs from different origins that complement each other well. Cosmic Creation is the latest work that follows on from last year's album "Places of Worship" and continues Henriksen's multi-instrumental sound work. It is an almost 40-minute suite in eight parts. Acoustic and electronic sources are tapped, manipulated, modulated and interwoven, effects hiss through the room, curious sound details are layered into tracks with occasional beat pulses and subtle monochrome textures. The electronically manipulated sound of the trumpet occasionally wanders through the wide spaces, which inevitably makes Jon Hassell a point of reference. Chron was first published as part of a 2012 retrospective box. The starting material for Chron is field recordings made by Henriksen at home as well as in hotel rooms, airports and on the go in Europe. They are processed so far that you can neither recognize sound source nor origin. Sound waves fluctuate through wide spaces, it roars and vibrates in gentle vibrations, and only on the fourth track "Solidification" do we hear a trumpet for the first time. On other pieces, keyboard melodies set the common thread or form percussive swabs in metal and glass-effect rooms the basic texture of the musical development. The double CD shows how devotedly and interested the Norwegian trumpeter penetrates the electronic ambient spaces and generates a quasi-orchestral soundscape as a single figure.
Jazz´N´More (DE)
... If you like it more experimental, darker, more stubborn and more contradictory, who maybe tends to be super silent rather than pulsating "Fourth World" music, Chron / Cosmic Creation is the perfect choice ...
Jazzthetik (DE)
There is no peace in Norway. Arve Henriksen bundles two independent albums into one double CD. On the “Chron / Cosmic Creation” (rune gramophone / cargo), which was recorded completely by himself, he shows himself from his most abstract side. Splintering glass as a rhythm generator, electronic clusters, disturbing sounds on the discreet trumpet and the piano, threatening organ fronts. We haven't heard the friendly trumpeter that dark for a long time.
Jazzthing (DE)
Neither listening to chrome for the first time - on ARVE HENRIKSEN's vinyl box solidification - nor replaying it here in a double pack with Cosmic Creation (RCD2152) awakens the idea of listening to one of the great trumpeters of today. The Norwegian is rather experimenting with sound sketches and the studio as an instrument. Piano and organ, electronics and computer technologies become brushes and spray cans for sound color images in mixed technology. With 'Solidification' the gentle yet haunting Henriksen tone is heard, surrounded by the organ. Titles like 'Hadean', 'Zircon' or 'Archean' are reminiscent of Informel paintings (for example by Emil Schumacher). The mixed sounds of elementary sounds, metalloid as well as ethereal, can also be achieved with 'Plume Of Ash', 'First Life' or ' Chronozone 'again hateful of possible worlds harmonics a sublimity that reminds one of Gerhard Richter, whether the famous' candle' or the colorful abstractions. Or even his Cologne cathedral window, as an association that is once again reinforced by the organ in 'Magma Oscillator', this time with oscillating wobble. Candle wax, frankincense, at 'Plate Tectonic' with its cage piano gamelan also a Far Eastern spirituality are no stranger to Henriksen. Most recently, when he visited Places Of Worship playgrounds of the god seeker gangs or landing sites for messengers of gods, Cosmic Creation seems to be the work of a cosmic courier, with a mission that is both cosmonautical and angelic. That sounds correspondingly psychedelic with the massive use of synthesizers. Iridescent Georgel flickers around the synapses, vocalization of the Domspatzen and, of course, the most eager trumpet fervor. Loops with percussive ingredients, drones in standing, pulsating or even howling waveforms and organ harmonies again and again only the starry sky seems big enough as a devotional image. Time becomes a space, a spherical phonotope, as a possible thanatotope (to sloterdijken here) that Henriksen's horn seems to be escaping. Like Hassell, he is a master of the possibility form. pulsating or howling waveform and organ harmonies over and over again, only the starry sky seems large enough as a devotional image. Time becomes a space, a spherical phonotope, as a possible thanatotope (to sloterdijken here) that Henriksen's horn seems to be escaping. Like Hassell, he is a master of the possibility form. pulsating or howling waveform and organ harmonies over and over again, only the starry sky seems large enough as a devotional image. Time becomes a space, a spherical phonotope, as a possible thanatotope (to sloterdijken here) that Henriksen's horn seems to be escaping. Like Hassell, he is a master of the possibility form.
Bad Alchemy (DE)
Arve Henriksen, that means the incredible band super silent, always different constellations and a different trumpet tone, which he made available to various vocalists from David Sylvian to Silje Nergaard. Based on the sound of the Japanese Shakuhachi bamboo flute, he developed and refined it to let it float in the wind between jazz, electro and alternative rock scenes, sometimes supplemented by his own dreamy songs. This can be of touching beauty, but also of brute force. Arve Henriksen does not enter safe terrain, especially not on his solo records. This double album gathers new material with "Cosmic Creation" and with "Chron" part of his 2012 box "Solidification". On both is the trumpet with synthesizers, Electronics and field recordings assigned to sound sculptures. This results in brittle, almost extraterrestrial sounds, meditative, animated and just as up to date as timeless. This is music that makes no concessions, but instead fuses inner and outer voices into exquisite collages that do not need continuous meters and without patterns that can be called up as swing, beat or groove by the listener. Sound surfaces slide into the picture like icebergs, glacier crashes, spherical loops carry the fragile trumpet sounds to quasi-sacred prayer. Erratic blocks add up to a listening game in 19 chapters. They speak in calm dignity, very modern and yet, as always, been there. inspired and just as up to date as timeless. This is music that makes no concessions, but instead fuses inner and outer voices into exquisite collages that do not need continuous meters and without patterns that can be called up as swing, beat or groove by the listener. Sound surfaces slide into the picture like icebergs, glacier crashes, spherical loops carry the fragile trumpet sounds to quasi-sacred prayer. Erratic blocks add up to a listening game in 19 chapters. They speak in calm dignity, very modern and yet, as always, been there. inspired and just as up to date as timeless. This is music that makes no concessions, but instead fuses inner and outer voices into exquisite collages that do not need continuous meters and without patterns that can be called up as swing, beat or groove by the listener. Sound surfaces slide into the picture like icebergs, glacier crashes, spherical loops carry the fragile trumpet sounds to quasi-sacred prayer. Erratic blocks add up to a listening game in 19 chapters. They speak in calm dignity, very modern and yet, as always, been there. Sound surfaces slide into the picture like icebergs, glacier crashes, spherical loops carry the fragile trumpet sounds to quasi-sacred prayer. Erratic blocks add up to a listening game in 19 chapters. They speak in calm dignity, very modern and yet, as always, been there. Sound surfaces slide into the picture like icebergs, glacier crashes, spherical loops carry the fragile trumpet sounds to quasi-sacred prayer. Erratic blocks add up to a listening game in 19 chapters. They speak in calm dignity, very modern and yet, as always, been there.
Jazzpodium (DE)
Less than six months after the stunning “Places of Worship” album, Norwegian trumpeter and sound researcher Arve Henriksen blows out new material. This time a double CD. But not everything is new! "Chron" was already part of the impressive solidification workshop box. As a found footage solo album, it was decidedly more brittle than the comparatively opulent “Places of Worship”. The sounds were recorded in hotels, airports or train stations. These are sound sketches that might turn into something else. On the other hand, the sounds of this double CD, supplemented by the eight, in some cases highly divergent, sound spaces of "Cosmic Creation", clearly indicate that the disciplined contemplation of "Places of Worship" only represents a temperament by Henriksen. Whoever is more experimental,
Klenkes (DE)
Jeg liker meg godt of Arve Henriksen tillater seg å minne om sitt gamle band, Supersilent. "Archean" he and dynamisk stykke with syntetisk driv. When "First Life" he trumpets som styrer gulltonen og gjeninnsetter solo artist Henriksen's note. "Cosmic Creation" inners mans ferskeste kreasjoner og er en slags utvidelse av "Places Of Worship". Her finnes lydutforskning av nobelt slag. Musicians for frøleri og og Fremdstår med skarphet og moment av overraskelse. Arve Henriksen's dragning mot det kosmiske byr på dyp og meningsbærende romfølelse. The albumene fanger inn en artist som kjenner sine egne røtter og strekker seg i Himmelretning, uten å bli svevende. 5/6.
Aftenposten (NO)
Dobbeltutgivelsen "Chron + Cosmic Creation" he en ny omdreining for Henriksen. Trumpets som har skaffet ham en hærskare av kopister, og som har endret mye av forståelsen for hvordan improvisert trompet kan høres ut, he can come here blindpassasjer. Begge platene he klipp-og-lim-prosjekter av funnede lydobjekter, feltopptak og egne trompet og synthimprovisasjoner. The result is strekker seg fra Olivier Messiaen-inspired organ sounder via kalde elektroniske ambient-collager til brokker av manipulates trompet, og inneholder også et par reminisenser av spillestilen han nå muligens er på vei til å forlate. Trådene can see the trekkes til en lang rekke av hans tidligere samarbeidvertrnere. I have a experimental hour of "Chron" and "Cosmic Creation" som en lavmælt miks av Supersilent, John Cale tape-komposisjoner og tidlig elektronisk musikk av Morton Subotnick eller Jon Hassell. It is naturally visible in Rome. Results for Arve Henriksen he uansett at han Fremdstår som en kunstner som nekter å hvile på sine laurbær, men fortsetter sin slowly transformasjon med ukjent utfall mens han pøser ut plater av høy kvalitet.
Morgenbladet (NO)