JON RUNE STRØM/ANDRÉ ROLIGHETEN: Arv (Stone Floor Records)
All the way this is beautiful music. Good and well-considered improvisations around more standardized Norwegian folk tunes, and an interaction that works brilliantly.It never happens that they try to make folk music "artificial" jazz related. But instead, they incorporate Hilmar Alexandersen and Karl Johansen Rosenberg's eternal tunes into an improvisational landscape that they master to their fullest. In the songs for which they are responsible, they go a bit further "out" in the free-jazz-like style, and create good and delicious moods, so that the the record is wonderful and various. This record has been around for a few weeks in my player. I've picked it up a number of times during the Christmas holiday and played it while the sour wind has ruled outside the windows here in Copenhagen. and every time I've put on the record, the heat has come. And that's something that not happens every time you put on a record
