Tord Gustavsen Ensemble

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The Child Within 00:00 Tools
Spiral Song 00:00 Tools
Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love 00:00 Tools
Way In 00:00 Tools
Restored, Returned 00:00 Tools
Left Over Lullaby No. 2 00:00 Tools
The Gaze 00:00 Tools
The Swirl / Wrapped In A Yielding Air 00:00 Tools
Left Over Lullaby No. 3 00:00 Tools
Your Crooked Heart 00:00 Tools
Left Over Lullaby No. 1 - O Stand, Stand At The Window 00:00 Tools
Left Over Lullaby No. 1 00:00 Tools
O Stand, Stand at the Window 00:00 Tools
Left Over Lullaby No.1 00:00 Tools
Left Over Lullaby No.1 - O Stand, Stand at the Window 00:00 Tools
Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love (W.H. Auden) 00:00 Tools
The Swirl-Wrapped In A Yielding Air 00:00 Tools
The Swirl 00:00 Tools
The The Swirl/Wrapped In a Yielding Air 00:00 Tools
Tears Transforming 00:00 Tools
Left Over Lullaby, No. 2 00:00 Tools
On Every Corner 00:00 Tools
Vicar Street 00:00 Tools
Left Over Lullaby, No. 1 / O Stand, Stand At the Window 00:00 Tools
Being There 00:00 Tools
Left Over Lullaby No. 1 / O Stand, Stand At The Window 00:00 Tools
Lay Your Sleeping Head my love 00:00 Tools
Ign 00:00 Tools
Left Over Lullaby No. 1-O Stand, Stand At the Window 00:00 Tools
The The Swirl-Wrapped In a Yielding Air 00:00 Tools
Left Over Lullaby, No. 3 00:00 Tools
Left Over Lullaby No 3 00:00 Tools
Left Over Lullaby No 2 00:00 Tools
Way In [♪☆♫] 00:00 Tools
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The Tord Gustavsen Ensemble consists of Tord Gustavsen (piano), Kristin Asbjørnsen (vocals), Tore Brunborg (saxophones), Mats Eilertsen (double-bass) and Jarle Vespestad (drums). After a trilogy of trio recordings which explored a clearly-demarcated melodic terrain, Gustavsen’s latest effort is a strikingly different album from the pianist at the head of a reconfigured band. Into the group come two Norwegian improvisers - bassist Mats Eilertsen and saxophonist Tore Brunborg. Inside the ensemble new aspects of interactive possibility open up as duo, trio and quartet instrumental combinations explore the space inside Tord's compositions - his gospel-inflected hymns and lullabies and ballads and his pulsing, almost minimalistic grooves. Their debut album Restored, Returned also includes the voice of Kristin Asbjørnsen. She wraps her bluesy phrasing huskily around the poetry of WH Auden and vocalizes wordlessly on three takes of Gustavsen's "Left Over Lullaby". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.