Duo II (2022)

"Conversations between improvising jazz players and computer musicians have often left the former struggling to find space within the machine's strutting rigidities, or the latter clacking hopefully along behind jazz's athleticism. This dialogue between former Jan Garbarek pianist and electronics specialist Bugge Wesseltoft and techno producer and computer guru Henrik Schwarz sounds more like a real partnership, built on composition and free, danceable journeys into improv the two have been undertaking since 2009. The set opens with the pair's first meeting, an ambient-jazz mix of kora-like sounds and drum-programme patterns with piano harmonies evocative of Keith Jarrett or Chick Corea. Where Is the Edge? is totally improvised, its thumping dance throb never receding, but See You Tomorrow has oblique Ligeti references, and more direct ones to the subtle keyboard backdrops of Miles Davis's In a Silent Way." (Guardian)