Norwegian double bass player Håkon Thelin is a generation-defining musician, improviser, composer, scholar, and educator, known as an interpreter of contemporary music, where the notes resemble mathematical equations with both eight and nine unknowns, the musically omnivorous three-headed troll POING (whose recent program interprets songs of the Norwegian eighties synth-pop band A-Ha), and his work with ensembles like Oslo Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, and Musikfabrik. He is an associate professor of contemporary music at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.
echoes and traces, together is Thelin’s sixth solo album, featuring three recent works for double bass(es). The album includes extended liner notes by Thelin and his favorite composers Jonas Lie Skaarud and Maja S.K. Ratkje, and American violinist and writer Maja S.K. Ratkje, and
