Tracklist:

1. Melancholia
2. The Beauty Of Sundays
3. Redream
4. The Dark Light
5. What All This Is
6. Mirror Images
7. Touch Of Time
8. Winter Haze
9. Red And Black
10. Passing On The Past

A striking musical rapport between Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and Dutch pianist Harmen Fraanje is palpable in the duo’s quietly lyrical investigations on Touch of Time. These are delicate melodies and textures, flowing between two musicians, who care deeply for the nuances of tone-shadings and the detailed development of a musical idea. In both freely improvised forms and carefully wrought themes, their instruments connect gracefully, picking up and finishing each other’s phrases.

Touch of Time, recorded in January 2023 at the Auditorio Stelio Molo in Lugano, was produced by Manfred Eicher.

Arve Henriksen: trumpet, electronics
Harmen Fraanje: piano