Reconnection is one of the projects (and second quintet album) of violinist and composer Tuva Halse. Tuva who? OK, you are not in Norway (that is your right). The entire Norwegian music scene, from jazz to folk, rap and contemporary music, even Eurovision, knows Tuva Halse. She stopped critics in their tracks in a duo with Joshua Redman last summer, which they described as historic. Three years after graduation at the prestigious jazzlinja at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, she is emerging on the international scene. Listen to this album today so you can look smug in a few years: “Tuva Halse? Yes, where have you been?”
Let us make introductions. Halse: baroque, occasionally carnatic-flavoured violin, voice,…
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