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Chiaroscuro

~ Arve Henriksen
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  • Audio CD (9 May 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Rune Grammofon
  • ASIN: B0002JP4HS
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,677 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen  1. Opening Image 4:15£0.79
Listen  2. Bird'S-Eye-View 4:07£0.79
Listen  3. Chiaro 3:28£0.79
Listen  4. Holography 3:01£0.79
Listen  5. Blue Silk 6:30£0.79
Listen  6. Parallel Action 4:38£0.79
Listen  7. Circled Take 3:24£0.79
Listen  8. Scuro 5:08£0.79
Listen  9. Time Lapse 5:07£0.79
Listen10. Ending Image 2:27£0.79

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stunningly beautiful, 5 May 2008
By Ian Shine (England) - See all my reviews
  
How the previous reviewer can possibly call this background music is beyond me. Yes, a lot of wallpaper chillout music has taken the surface of this kind of soft trumpeteering and used it to layer a generic house beat, but Henriksen's compositions are frankly soul-stirring.
I've found that the record really repays listening through headphones, rather than through a stereo (although played loud on a stereo the effect is still stunning). This is essentially quiet music, but when it's notched up a level or heard through the more intimate medium of headphones, its layers and subtle variations really come to life, and distance it galaxies away from 'chill out' dross.
Arve's breathy vocals, so high they're almost ethereal, and muted trumpet work with the synths to create an album that, while composed of 10 separate tracks that stand up on their own, really demands to be listened to as a whole (after all, track 1 is 'opening image' and track 10 'ending image', so it's clearly structured to be listened to as a complete piece).
As the title suggests, the record offers up a range of contrasts between dark and light, and it really conjures up an image in the mind of the listener. It's more of an encompassing listening experience than any record I can remember buying this century.
I can't speak highly enough of it. Anyone interested in genuinely avant garde or interesting music should own this masterpiece.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good but simply not fun, 27 Feb 2008
I have heard Arve on many recordings and am absolutely in love with his brilliant sound on the trumpet.

I just bought this album and I can hear it is good and like the other reviewers mentioned "cinematic" etc etc. But it's simply not fun. I want to listen to music not put it in the background at a dinner party or as mood music to something else. But for those of you who do, you will find this an excellent album.

For me, trying to listen and engage this album was a little tough and I simply didn't find it FUN.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Minimal Fjord Music, 30 Nov 2007
By J. Higham "joehigham" (Europe) - See all my reviews
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One reviewer elsewhere on the web remarked that 'some dirt under the fingernails would go a long way' and another 'it's hard not to wish for some of the disruptive edginess that Supersilent's other players bring to their own music' when talking about this CD. I wouldn't agree at all, it seems as though some people are expecting to find Arve Henriksen reproducing his other band 'Supersilent' on his solo CDs. Nothing is further from the truth here as the music has a quiet intensity which, if you're prepared to listen, is rather intense whilst very relaxing at the same time. The trumpet playing of Henriksen is played over loops of his voice, whilst the percussion (Audun Kleive) and sampling (Jan Bang) adds rhythms and sound effects to create beautiful soundscapes. These conjur up images of vast spaces and fjords, as is the country where Henriksen himself comes from.

If you're a fan of Jon Hassel or Eno then you'll certainly find plenty of good music here for you also!!
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