Remembrance

Ketil Bjørnstad, Tore Brunborg | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ecm Records
• ASIN: B00369K2OG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,673 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellant Recording, September 9, 2010

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Ketil Bjornstad is, without exception, a truly gifted composer and musician. His most recent CD, "Remembrance," is a wonderful showcase of his many artistic talents. Simply numbered, Tracks I - XI, these pieces (all original compositions by Bjornstad) run the gamut from jazz to improvisational to experimentation. Tore Brunborg and Jon Christensen lend invaluable support on tenor sax and drums, respectfully. Personally, I really enjoy this CD. I won't put it on the same level as "The River," but it's amazing in it's own way.

Find a languid afternoon in Autumn, put this CD on the player, watch the leaves fall in the yard, and remember...all those memories you thought were long forgotten.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars simply beautifull, July 1, 2010

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Daniel Lustgarten "lustgartico" (caracas -venezuela) - See all my reviews
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just music made in a simple and beautifull way,each piece is a hymn of love,one of the best bjornstad records (and i own most of them).

4.0 out of 5 stars A heightened awareness and gentle urgency runs through the music, May 26, 2011

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loce_the_wizard "loce_the_wizard" (Lilburn, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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Norwegian pianist Ketil Bjørnstad rightfully gets the marquee as the composer of the 11 songs on "Remembrance." Each track shares the common name Remembrance, distinguished as Parts I-XI, which allows the composer the freedom to focus on the music and leave interpretations of what memories are being evoked to each listener.

Working with his long-time collaborator drummer Jon Christensen on all the tracks and including Norwegian saxophonist Tore Brunborg on most (VI,VII and IX are piano-drum interactions), Bjørnstad crafts melodies that, if one lets the music have its way, tug at memories and remembrances. The wistful, pristine, and clear music works on a couple of levels, suggesting the natural vivid imagery of Scandinavia. There is nothing flabby or excessive in the composing or playing, but a heightened awareness and gentle urgency running through the music.

But I also find that these "Remembrances" suggest something more fleeting and fragile, perhaps the sacred sphere where the shared memories of someone remembering his or her lost love and the spectral essence of that departed soul longing to reconnect briefly overlap late in the evening or during the silence of the earliest moment of the morning.