Frode Haltli Quartet

Frode Haltli, acknowledged as one of the most outstanding accordion soloists in contemporary music, which includes seven Norwegian titles as best accordionist, is also an exceptional improviser and an authority on folk music.

His second ECM recording under his own name brings all of these aspects of his musical character together. Repertoire includes a psalm from the western fjords, a lyrical waltz from Haltli's home village near the Swedish border, a Roma traveller tune that suggests Albert Ayler's sound-world The remaining three elements of the quartet are Irish-Scottish classical viola player Garth Knox (formerly of the Arditti Quartet) as well as Norwegian partners composer/singer Maja Ratkje and trumpeter Arve Henriksen.