Henriette Eilertsen Trio "Moder"

Norway

Henriette Eilertsen - flute
Joel Ring - cello
Øystein Aarnes Vik – drums

With more than 50 million streams, a flute project by an American rapper was the most successful surprise in instrumental music between jazz and meditation mysticism about three years ago. If things had been fair, the success would have belonged to Henriette Eilertsen. The Norwegian flutist, born in 1993 and already the first to earn a jazz degree on this instrument in her home country, had already released "Poems for Flute" in 2021 and recorded "Om talmodighet" the same year with the OJKOS (Orchestra for Jazz Composers in Oslo), which she co-founded. Recently, her trio's debut album "Moder" was released, featuring Swedish Norwegian Joel Ring on cello and drummer Øystein Aarnes Vik, teaching modern flute tones—from gentle Lateef-ian (Yusef, of course) to stormily overblown grooves. "One can easily imagine that 'Moder' would have been a hit a thousand years ago—and that open-minded music lovers will experience it as a musical treasure in a thousand years," as it is aptly stated in a text about this album.