Ketil Bjørnstad
David Darling
Jon Christensen
Terje Rypdal
The Sea II
Ketil Bjørnstad piano
David Darling cello
Jon Christensen drums
Terje Rypdal guitars
The Sea
Recorded December 1996
ECM 1633
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Ketil Bjørnstad's ECM discography is shaping up as a
musical roman-fleuve on watery themes, and The Sea II follows Water Stories
(recorded 1993), The Sea (1995), and The River (1996). Studio productions and
touring of the last few years have served to sharply define the tasks of the
individual players in Bjørnstad's band. Improvisation in this unit is concerned
not so much with interaction in the conventional jazz sense as with
cross-currents. England's Jazz Journal described the band's sound as
"quintessential ECM tone poem music, with leader Bjørnstad's rubato and
occasionally rhapsodic pianism cast very much in an adagio mould. Poetic and
pensive in its rippling moods and keening delivery, with Darling's cello
striking a typically meditative note, Christensen rolling and floating across
barlines with customary sensitivity and imagination, and plangent passages of
extraordinary, soaring intensity from Rypdal."
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