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01. Splashgirl - We Took Him Out To See The Sun
02. Splashgirl - Hemlock
03. Splashgirl - Nature As In Bits, Parts And Pieces
04. Splashgirl - Black Soil, Red Sea
05. Splashgirl - He Took Us Out To See The Sun
06. Splashgirl - I'm Obsessed With This Red Light
07. Splashgirl - Postludium
08. Splashgirl - Nature As In Pieces
09. Splashgirl - Arbor
ARTIST
TITLE
Arbor
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
HUBRO 2500CD HUBRO 2500CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/28/2010

The second album from young Norwegians Splashgirl see them re-inventing themselves from a piano trio in the European jazz tradition to a "band" in a more boundary-less musical landscape someplace between ambient, experimental rock, jazz, and contemporary music. It is still improvised acoustic music, but it definitely sounds quite different. The music on Arbor takes a more minimalistic and defined collective approach where the use of long, sustained sounds binds together a broad palette of string and percussion instruments. The band mentions Eric Satie, Earth, Morton Feldman, and Oren Ambarchi as important references. Repetition and duration play a major role on Arbor as the music unfolds slowly and leaves a lot of room for a focus on details. Splashgirl play improvised music that doesn't sound improvised. This time they wanted to have a more collective approach to the music, and by improvising, they have found sounds and song-ideas that they have developed further during the recording sessions. Arbor also features contributions by pedal steel guitarist Anders Hofstad Sørås, and singer/songwriter/sound artist Lasse Passage, two musicians with whom Splashgirl have been working closely with for some time now. Splashgirl was formed in 2004 on an initiative from pianist Andreas Stensland Løwe. He, Jo Berger Myhre and Andreas Lønmo Knudsrød had known each other since high school, and had played together in several other bands. Arbor was recorded in an old tree house called Biermannsgården in Oslo, and mixed by Ingar Hunskaar before pre-mastered to analog tape by Lasse Passage.