| 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: | DEB331027851 |
| 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 | |
| Xavier Charles | |
| Ivar Grydeland | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027852 |
| Track length: | 7:10 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Ivar Grydeland |
| Xavier Charles | |
| Ingar Zach | |
| Christian Wallumrød | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027853 |
| Track length: | 1:58 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Xavier Charles |
| Christian Wallumrød | |
| Ingar Zach | |
| Ivar Grydeland | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027854 |
| Track length: | 4:24 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Xavier Charles |
| Christian Wallumrød | |
| Ivar Grydeland | |
| Ingar Zach | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027855 |
| Track length: | 1:54 |
| 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: | DEB331027856 |
| Track length: | 9:22 |
| 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: | DEB331027857 |
| Track length: | 7:56 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Ingar Zach |
| Ivar Grydeland | |
| Xavier Charles | |
| Christian Wallumrød | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027858 |
| Track length: | 1:19 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Xavier Charles |
| Christian Wallumrød | |
| Ingar Zach | |
| Ivar Grydeland | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027859 |
| Track length: | 6:10 |
| Artist: | Dans les arbres |
| Performer: | Dans les arbres |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (SACEM) |
| Manuscript (NCB/TONO) | |
| Composer: | Christian Wallumrød |
| Ivar Grydeland | |
| Ingar Zach | |
| Xavier Charles | |
| ISRC: | DEB331027860 |
Xavier Charles clarinet, harmonica
Ivar Grydeland acoustic guitar, banjo, scruti box
Christian Wallumrød prepared piano, harmonium
Ingar Zach gran cassa, percussion
Recorded June 2010 / April 2011
Dans les arbres – the unique improvising quartet comprising three Norwegians and a Frenchman – continues to fine-tune its artistic concept, patiently traversing its luminous planes of sound with a rare sense of accord, and shared responsibilities. The combination of its unorthodox sound sources, including Charles’s clarinet harmonics, Wallumrød’s prepared piano, Grydeland’s bowed banjo, and Zach’s differentiated gran casa playing has led to free playing and spontaneous group-composing in a class of its own. The group’s ECM debut generated many rave reviews, with England’s The Wire declaring “There’s no end to the delights of this quite magical disc.” The magic is intact on “Canopée”, recorded in June 2010 and April 2011 in Oslo.
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 ...
