| Track length: | 5:14 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Christian Wallumrød |
| Ingar Zach | |
| Ivar Grydeland | |
| Xavier Charles | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027801 |
| Track length: | 3:52 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Christian Wallumrød |
| Ingar Zach | |
| Ivar Grydeland | |
| Xavier Charles | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027802 |
| Track length: | 7:10 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Christian Wallumrød |
| Xavier Charles | |
| Ingar Zach | |
| Ivar Grydeland | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027803 |
| Track length: | 1:58 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Ivar Grydeland |
| Ingar Zach | |
| Christian Wallumrød | |
| Xavier Charles | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027804 |
| Track length: | 4:24 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Christian Wallumrød |
| Ingar Zach | |
| Ivar Grydeland | |
| Xavier Charles | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027805 |
| Track length: | 1:54 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Ivar Grydeland |
| Xavier Charles | |
| Christian Wallumrød | |
| Ingar Zach | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027806 |
| Track length: | 9:22 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Ingar Zach |
| Xavier Charles | |
| Ivar Grydeland | |
| Christian Wallumrød | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027807 |
| Track length: | 7:56 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Ivar Grydeland |
| Xavier Charles | |
| Christian Wallumrød | |
| Ingar Zach | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027808 |
| Track length: | 1:20 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Ingar Zach |
| Christian Wallumrød | |
| Ivar Grydeland | |
| Xavier Charles | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027809 |
| Track length: | 6:10 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Ivar Grydeland |
| Christian Wallumrød | |
| Xavier Charles | |
| Ingar Zach | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027810 |
Guitarist Ivar Grydeland and percussionist Ingar Zach, prime movers and catalysts for free improvised music in Norway, got in touch with Christian Wallumrød after hearing his “Sofienberg Variations” on ECM and they have since worked together in diverse combinations including, since 2004, ‘Dans les arbres’ a project completed by French clarinettist Xavier Charles. Their radical all-acoustic improvisation explores sonorities and textures that frequently sound electronic, and also often sounds ‘composed’ – with echoes of Cage and the New York School.
Xavier Charles clarinet, harmonica
Ivar Grydeland acoustic guitar, banjo, scruti box
Christian Wallumrød piano
Ingar Zach percussion, bass drum
2012 ECM
About Dans les arbres:
“Dans les arbres” is both band name and album title of this first release from a Norwegian/French collective that has been pooling energies since 2004, while also drawing on longer-established associations. The release marks the ECM debut of guitarist Ivar Grydeland and clarinettist Xavier Charles. Percussionist Ingar Zach has contributed to projects with Jon Balke (Magnetic North’s “Diverted Travels” and “Statements” by the Batagraf group), while Christian Wallumrød, of course, has been an ECM recording artist for 12 years already, with four albums as a leader for the label, most recently “The Zoo Is Far”, which was issued in 2007.
If the benevolent inspiration of John Cage was felt already on Wallumrød’s “A Year from Easter” (2003) whose titled referenced Cage’s “A Year from Monday”, there are musical-temperamental affinities also on “Dans les Arbres”. Cage had his prepared piano... and Ivar Grydeland has his prepared banjo, whose patient metallic pulse is one of ...
