Frozen Silence

'Frozen Silence' is the third ECM release from alto saxophonist Maciej Obara's Polish-Norwegian quartet, bringing the story forward from 'Unloved' and 'Three Crowns', recordings which confrmed the ensemble's standing as one of the most strikingly original European bands of the present moment. The quartet's creative sense of musical interplay is again to the forefront of this album, recorded in Oslo in the summer of 2022, which may be their strongest statement to date. Obara's music optimally highlights his intuitive musical relationship with Dominik Wania, while Ole Morten Vagan and Gard Nilssen continually transcend rhythm section roles to interact persuasively with the saxophonist and the pianist.