Author: Arve Henriksen

Musician

Kaiku Ruijasta – Echo from Ruijasta

To be released on BANDCAMP the 26th of April – on the kven language day. The record will be presented on other platforms later.

KAIKU RUIJASTA – ECHO FROM RUIJA

After composing music for the theatre production Kniven i ilden, presented by Riksteatret and Kvääniteatteri, the world of Ingeborg Arvola’s novel Kniven i ilden continued to resonate deeply within me. The story, its landscapes, and its inner strength gathered in my imagination and gradually transformed into music. The dedication of the actors, director Cecilie Mosli, and the entire crew to sharing knowledge about Kven culture has been profoundly inspiring. In addition, I have had stimulating collaborations with all the musicians in the Kaipu project, presented by Nordnorsk Jazzsenter, as well as the visual project Kaipu Kotia, together with visual artist Eili Bråstad.

The commitment from all these artists has nourished my own desire to go further — to explore more deeply into my father’s Kven roots.

Thanks to:
Riksteatret, Kvääniteatteri, Cecilie Mosli, all actors and artistic crew of Kniven i Ilden, Ingeborg Arvola, Nordnorsk Jazzsenter, all musicians in the Kaipu project, Eili Bråstad, Tove Raappana Reibo, Mervi Erkheikki, Halti Kvenkultursenter, Pål Vegard Eriksen, Helge Sten, Odd-Magne Henriksen and Anna Maria Friman

Produced & mixed by Arve Henriksen Recorded at Arve Music Studio Mölnlycke Mastering by Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab Kven translations by Tove Raappana Reibo & Mervi Erkheikki at Halti Kvenkultursenter Artwork & photo by Arve Henriksen Booklet design Selmer Kringen All compositions & instruments by Arve Henriksen

Supported by:
Arve Maria Music AB & Statens Kunstnerstipend

AEMONA

new release on Sound of Niche

Arve Henriksen (Norway, 1968) is internationally acclaimed for his ethereal, shakuhachi-inspired trumpet style. A founding member of Supersilent, he has released on ECM & Rune Grammofon and worked with David Sylvian, Jan Bang, and Trio Mediaeval.

Bram Stadhouders (Netherlands, 1987) blends jazz, ambient, and classical influences into genre-defying projects. With 13 releases and over 800 concerts in 60+ countries, he’s known for groundbreaking work like Orbit and collaborations with Netherlands Chamber Choir, Nils Petter Molvaer, and B.O.X.

Aemona is the third vinyl release by Podium JIN, recorded live and mixed by Sebastiaan van Bijlevelt, and released on the Sound of Niche label. Hand-numbered, 300-piece edition. For collectors, jazz lovers, and seekers of sound beyond genre.

A haunting, one-take live encounter between two sonic visionaries: Norwegian trumpet master Arve Henriksen and Dutch guitarist-composer Bram Stadhouders. Recorded in front of a live audience at Galloway Studio (Nijmegen), Aemona captures the raw essence of improvisation — no overdubs, just pure, intuitive sound. Ethereal trumpet tones float through ambient guitar textures and electronics, sculpted into a seamless, meditative soundscape.

Note: Although there are 7 tracks to download, you’ll actually hear 9 as the title tracks Eklon and Wister, and Nersti and Koplu flow seamlessly into each other.

released September 24, 2025

: https://soundofniche.bandcamp.com/album/aemona

Sound of Niche

New record on All Ice Records

“Uncharted Waters” with Terje Isungset, Eivind Aarset & Arve Henriksen

: https://www.terjeisungset.no/all-ice-records-shop/iq8r7dghte3019s2ct26qhrh2ppe4c-wcwr9-daarg

Jan Bang | Arve Henriksen – New Album on Punkt Editions – After the Wildfire

Commissioned by the Skopje Jazz Festival for its 42nd edition in 2023, After the Wildfire — the new album by Jan Bang and Arve Henriksen — was first performed in Skopje with the FAMES Institute Orchestra and Macedonian voices, arranged and conducted by Džijan Emin. That premiere revealed a music that hovered between genres, at once ambient, folkloric, and symphonic, “with its main feature being innovation and creativity,” as Nenad Giorgevski wrote.
The album itself grows directly from those premiere recordings. At its heart is the quartet of Bang (live sampling, electronics), Henriksen (trumpet, voice), Eivind Aarset (guitar, electronics), and Ingar Zach (percussion), their elemental dialogue set within the orchestral textures shaped by Emin and the FAMES musicians. To this foundation, new studio recordings made at Punkt Studio were later added — including “Seeing (Eyes Closed),” “Halfway Between Noon and Sunset,” and “Remnants” — featuring Bang, Henriksen, and Aarset. The result is a work that moves between live and studio, collective and intimate, each piece emerging as a scene, an apparition, a fragment of survival: the sound of performance transformed into lasting resonance.

:https://jazzlandrec.com/

: https://orcd.co/rxba6og