An extraordinary second album by the classically trained Norwegian saxophonist, who undermines the instrument’s showy jazz cliches by employing contact microphones around his tenor to amplify noisy fingers clicking against the keys and keypads for a new world of sound. He also amplifies his breaths through FX units, and employs the circular breathing techniques of the didgeridoo or flute learned, from his teenage years in Indonesia and plays strange sounds repetitively and mesmerically, capturing a wealth of influences including techno in his home in Berlin, and attacking the normal maleness of the instrument with his own powerfully gay identity through queer theory inspired by José Muñoz. All this is expressed in long track such as Flutter or the title track to the 10-minute Cruising, a mesmeric demonstration of great technique and range. Overall, helped with André Bratten’s accompanying electronic treatments, a visceral, strangely wondrous sometimes demanding but very rewarding experience. Out on Smalltown Supersound.
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