Drifting
Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
Awards:
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, March 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
Paced by no pace, the music curls around from everywhere at once. Like late spring breezes, it is a welcome feeling.
Drifting
Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
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Awards:
-
Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, March 2023
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
Paced by no pace, the music curls around from everywhere at once. Like late spring breezes, it is a welcome feeling.
About
After Mette Henriette's critically acclaimed, self-titled first recording comes Drifting - an album pervaded by trio conversations of idiosyncratic and original expression.
With Johan Lindvall returning on piano, new addition Judith Hamann on cello and herself on saxophone, Mette's chamber musical elaborations prove of a concentrated and exploratory quality, marked by subtle yet intense interaction. Motifs and recurring patterns crystallize and reveal a concise, intricate narrative. The saxophonist-composer explains how "this album is in movement. It's on its way somewhere and has its own pace - its creative agency is fundamentally different from what I've done previously."
Recorded in Oslo, completed in Studios La Buissonne and produced by Manfred Eicher, Drifting presents the trio's deep investigations into hushed textures and rich tones with precision and clarity.
Mette Henriette: tenor saxophone
Johan Lindvall: piano
Judith Hamann: cello
Contents and tracklist
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
- Mette Henriette (tenor saxophone), Johan Lindvall (piano), Judith Hamann (cello)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Munchmuseet, Oslo
Awards and reviews
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JazzwiseEditor's ChoiceMarch 2023
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Presto Recordings of the YearWinner 2023
Paced by no pace, the music curls around from everywhere at once. Like late spring breezes, it is a welcome feeling.
March 2023
Drifting represents that concentrated focus on the passing moment even more revealingly – and dynamically – than its ECM predecessor, her eponymous 2016 debut for the label.
With pianist Johan Lindvall and cellist Judith Hamann, saxophonist and composer Mette Henriette presents hushed, repetitive meditations unbounded by the pressures of time.

