Håkon Thelin releases his first album with his own compositions on the label Atterklang (AIM). The album feature his solo playing and
the performance of two duos, with the tenor Frank Havrøy and with the Italian violinist Marco Rogliano who plays on the records title
track “Light”. The music on this CD represents a defining discovery of my own musical voice, as it speaks through the double bass. The exploration of sounds has been ensued by an evolving thought regarding the contextualization of this specific language of music, which I have come to call a folk music for the double bass. The great Italian
double bass player and composer Stefano Scodanibbio says that he wants ”...to allow the contrabass to sing with its own voice”. During the 1980’s he found this voice, which came from the instrument itself, being based on the possibillities that the instrument provides. The main discovery that allowed such a language to be created was the expansion of flageolet techniques, the most evident being the interchanging of ordinary tones and flageolets. The conception of such a folk music for the double bass has been my main approach in creating this music, and my aim for the sounding result. To create a composed music, bound by intricate fixed rhythms, melodic shapes and forms, but yet to envince the sounding impressions of improvisation. My music is based upon an exploration of certain sounds which speak particularly well through the double bass. The overtones enable a new world of sounds, and at the same time strengthen the link to the fundamentals of all sound.
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A ground breaking release from one of the foremost double bass players in the new music field, this is a record primed with technical precision and improvisational energy.
On this release Thelin shows not only his personal preferences towards virtuoso solo playing and powerful, communicative chamber music; his brilliant interpretations of works by Xenakis, Sørensen and Druckmann are of such a high calibre that they are destined to become reference recordings.
