Trygve Seim & Frode Haltli
Trygve and Frode first started playing together in 2000, when the accordionist joined Seim’s large ensemble just prior to the release of the award-winning album Different Rivers. They have since collaborated on a number of recordings, including The Source And Different Cikadas (2002), Sangam (2004), Trygve’s quartet setting of Jalaluddin Rumi Rumi’s poems on Rumi Songs (2016), as well as their duo album Yeraz (2008). They have also appeared individually on a number of other recordings for the label.

Frode released his leader debut for ECM in 2002 with Looking On Darkness – a unique collection of compositions by Nordic composers in which the accordionist is paired with a string quartet. His second leader date followed with 2007’s Passing Images. A chamber orchestra joined Haltli for his album Air from 2016, containing performances of music written for him by Danish composers Bent Sørensen and Hans Abrahamsen (“a historic-psychological polyphony of the past, the present, the incidental or the firmly focussed” – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Trygve Seim’s history with ECM includes over two dozen recordings at this point, and already his debut Different Rivers from 2000 won the Preis Der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik award. He subsequently appeared recurringly on albums by Christian Wallumrød, Sinikka Langeland and with Iro Harlaa on Northbound (2005), Vespers (2011) and Ante Lucem (2016). Seim also recorded as part of The Source (2006), with his Sangam ensemble (2004), alongside the Marcin Wasilewski Trio on Jacob Young’s Forever Young (2014), with Arild Andersen, Mats Eilertsen and on Manu Katché’s Playground (2007). Additional albums include his quartet recording Helsinki Songs (2018) and Purcor (2010) in duo with keyboardist Andreas Utnem.