{"id":7198,"date":"2015-12-28T21:35:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T05:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7198"},"modified":"2015-12-29T08:03:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T16:03:22","slug":"monday-recommendation-mette-henriette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/12\/monday-recommendation-mette-henriette\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Mette Henriette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mette-Henriette-2-CD\/dp\/B0151ZK3AA\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20\" target=\"_\">Mette Henriette<\/a> (ECM)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mette-Henriette-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mette Henriette 2\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mette-Henriette-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mette-Henriette-2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mette-Henriette-2-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mette-Henriette-2.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/>The mystery, melancholy and minimalist magic of Mette Henriette Martedatter R\u00c3\u00b8lv\u00c3\u00a5g\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s music stems in part from her family origins in the S\u00c3\u00a1mi, the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia. The young Norwegian tenor saxophonist and composer shares qualities of Nordic cool and daring that have brought attention to such established ECM artists as Jan Garbarek and Ketil Bj\u00c3\u00b8rnstad. The first CD of her debut album for the label presents her with cellist Katrine Schiott and pianist Johan Lindvall in pieces approaching pure impressionism. At first, she keeps her saxophone in a minor role. When it emerges, her quiet authority on the instrument commands attention. The second disc finds Ms. R\u00c3\u00b8lv\u00c3\u00a5g with a 13-piece ensemble in which she establishes a significant composition and arranging talent. In a piece like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wind on Rocks,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d her playing and the entwined subtlety of her writing make her doubly impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mette Henriette (ECM) The mystery, melancholy and minimalist magic of Mette Henriette Martedatter R\u00c3\u00b8lv\u00c3\u00a5g\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s music stems in part from her family origins in the S\u00c3\u00a1mi, the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia. The young Norwegian tenor saxophonist and composer shares qualities of Nordic cool and daring that have brought attention to such established ECM artists as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}