Stronen, Thomas - Relations

Musical messages from Oslo, New York, Basel and Lugano – recorded between 2018 and 2002 - are juxtaposed and recombined on an absorbing recording that features Norwegian drummer, Thomas Strønen, 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’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.