Sangam album cover
Sangam

Trygve Seim

2005
ECM Records

Norwegian saxophonist and composer Trygve Seim understands that jazz is nothing if not a genre of freedom. After demonstrating that notion to near-haunting effect in Different Rivers (2000), this follow-up from 2004 marries folk(ish) motifs with canonical inspirations (Gil Evans among them). His band of brass and reed instruments, accordion, drums, and strings evokes cinematic movements and diurnal awareness. Spiritual undertones reveal themselves selectively, always with a quietude that eschews vertical proselytizing in favor of horizontal dialogue. This is artful music making, clean and direct while embracing the enhancements of meticulous post-production.

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