Reception

Track listing

All compositions by Ketil Bjørnstad

1. "Glacial Reconstruction" - 6:58
2. "Levels and Degrees" - 7:19
3. "Surface Movements" - 4:27
4. "The View I" - 5:18
5. "Between Memory and Presentiment" - 4:02
6. "Ten Thousand Years Later" - 7:09
7. "Waterfall" - 2:14
8. "Flotation and Surroundings" - 5:20
9. "Riverscape" - 2:14
10. "Approaching the Sea" - 4:50
11. "The View II" - 4:30
12. "History" - 3:47

Personnel

• Ketil Bjørnstad
  Ketil Bjørnstad
  Ketil Bjørnstad is a Norwegian pianist and composer. Initially trained as a classical pianist, Bjørnstad discovered jazz at an early age and has embraced the emergence of "European jazz"....
  
   - piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  
• Terje Rypdal
  Terje Rypdal
  Terje Rypdal is a Norwegian guitarist and composer. Most of his music has been released on albums of the German record label ECM. Rypdal has collaborated both as a guitarist and as a composer with other ECM artists such as Ketil Bjørnstad and David Darling...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Bjorn Kjellemyr - bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• Jon Christensen
  Jon Christensen
  Jon Christensen is a Norwegian jazz percussionist.In the late 1960s he played alongside Jan Garbarek on several recordings by the composer George Russell....
  
   (tracks 1-5), Per Hillestad (tracks 6-12) - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....