Hilde Marie Holsen: Lazuli

Rating: ★★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Hilde Marie Holsen (t, elec)

Label:

Hubro

October/2018

Catalogue Number:

2572

RecordDate:

June 2017

Norway's Hilde Marie Holsen creates bewitching soundscapes using her trumpet and an array of electronics. She compares her work to visual art. She paints with sound – working and reworking the frequencies as she goes to make a finished piece. Lazuli, her second album for Hubro following 2015's Ask, opens with three short works – like preparatory sketches for the final, 16-minute title-track. If you close your eyes and listen on headphones it feels like you're suspended within the music. Drones envelop you, breathy trumpet melodies fade in and out, and all sorts of strange and beautiful sounds present themselves – metallic glimmers, a sound like a church organ wrapped in cotton wool, a hunting horn, a violin, the propeller of an aircraft and the distant rumble of thunder. Sometimes Holsen's sound paintings are vast to the point of infinite, but there are also moments of incredible intimacy, when it feels like quick-winged moths are tickling the nooks and crannies of your ear. After the album ends, the silence is deafening. You almost feel bereft.

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