“Pure beauty is the common tone of Trygve Seim and Frode Haltli. There is something folk-song-like in this music – intersections where secular and sacred music meet to dance”. This is what the German weekly paper Die Zeit said on the duo’s debut release Yeraz back in 2008 and while the statement still holds up today, the rapport between the saxophonist and the accordionist has grown even more fluid in the meantime.

On Our Time Trygve and Frode exchange counterpuntal glances, lyrical swells and textural explorations with grace, eloquence and utmost nuance, presenting a programme of originals, improvisations and evocative recastings of traditional folk songs from Ukraine and North-India. Recorded at the Himmelfahrtskirche in Munich, in 2023, and produced by Manfred Eicher, on Our Time the saxophonist and accordionist’s tones meet in a surreal and magical dance.

PERSONNEL:

Trygve Seim - (sopranot& tenor saxophone)
Frode Haltli - (accordion)

Recorded: June 2023, Himmelfahrtskirche Sendling, Munich

TRACKS:

01. Du, mi tid
02. Improvisation No. 1 / Fanfare
03. Arabian Tango
04. Oy Khodyt' Son, Kolo Vikon
05. Improvisation No. 2 / Shyama Sundara Madana Mohana
06. Improvisation No. 3 / Fanfare
07. Improvisation No. 4 / Les Cinq Doigts No. 5
08. Elegi