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Mathias Eick

Lullaby

ECM
Release Date: February 14, 2025

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For Lullaby, Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick draws on the quartet formation in a programme that includes some of his most exploratory and improvisatory qualities to date, with a cast of ECM familiars Kristjan Randalu and Ole Morten Vågan on piano and bass, and new arrival Hans Hulbækmo on drums. There’s a strong sense of abandon within these melodic songs, as the musicians flow smoothly between tuneful harmonies, collectively building momentum from within the forms.

Eick’s immediately recognizable and soothing tone is often confronted by Randalu’s in turns lyrical and energetic keyboard-flights throughout Lullaby, soaring above a propulsive, always engaging rhythm section. Reviewing Eick’s last album When We Leave, All Music emphasised how, “the delicacy in Eick's aching melody expressionistically weds the sacred and the natural worlds” – a quality that arguably rings even more true here.

  • 'Caring' from Mathias Eick's 'When we leave' featured on All About Jazz: New Releases
    Posted At: November 1, 2021

    Mathias Eick is among the most immediately recognizable soloists to have emerged from the Norwegian jazz scene, and his wistful trumpet sound and strongly melodic compositions have met with a positive response around the world. When his ECM leader debut The Door was issued in 2008, US magazine JazzTimes described the trumpeter's tone as "plaintive and spare," while emphasizing that, "like all good ba...

  • Hard day at the home office? Stressed out by your yoga teacher's bills? Mathias Eick's 'When we leave' seems designed to soothe the troubled soul / London JazzNews
    Posted At: September 27, 2021

    Mathias Eick is among the most immediately recognizable soloists to have emerged from the Norwegian jazz scene, and his wistful trumpet sound and strongly melodic compositions have met with a positive response around the world. When his ECM leader debut The Door was issued in 2008, US magazine JazzTimes described the trumpeter's tone as "plaintive and spare," while emphasizing that, "like all good ba...

  • Matthias Eick - When we leave makes 88.3WBGO - Fall Preview 2021
    Posted At: September 16, 2021

    Autumn is always harvest time for new music, and this season is no exception. More than a year and a half into the coronavirus pandemic, musicians are going out on tour, and even back in the clubs (taking all due precautions). Festivals have set their sights on a triumphant return, welcoming audiences in person again. Through it all, the music endures, finding ways to deepen and thrive. The evidence ...
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