Over several summers Trio Mediaeval and trumpeter Arve Henriksen spent
many days together by the beautiful Dalsfjorden on the Norwegian west
coast, and it was there that most of the music for this recording was
born. Fascinated and inspired by Icelandic sagas, beautiful chants, folk
songs, religious hymns and fiddle tunes, the quartet has arranged a
unique set of songs where improvisation, mediaeval and traditional music
from Iceland, Norway and Sweden meet the present. The singers and
trumpeter have often performed in live settings with the collaboration
reviewed by The Guardian as a richly musical and imaginative encounter.
Rímur is their first extensive collaboration on disc and was recorded in
February 2016 at Munich's Himmelfahrtskirche, produced by Manfred
Eicher.
