Tord Gustavsen Quartet - Extended Circle (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 51:09 minutes | 1009 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet
For Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen, the title of his sixth album for ECM has a programmatic significance. "Extended Circle" refers, he says, to the completion of a “double circle” of trilogies: the first with the trio heard on Changing Places, The Ground and Being There, and the second with the quartet (formed inside the expanded ensemble of Restored, Returned in 2009 and then documented on The Well in 2012). Extended Circle opens and closes with a trio piece, while exploring textural and dynamic variations in between. “You come back to the point of departure but with new insight – and things are the same but not the same,” Gustavsen sums up an album that in his view points forward to musical openness, but also back to his 2003 ECM debut.