ALBUM REVIEW: CHRISTER FREDRIKSEN “MAUVE”
Identified as creative, free-form jazz, Mauve directly challenges the emerging stagnation in the jazz landscape. It comes from deep exposition into the genre when one dived deep in search for the truth and stands at its very core. What is jazz? Does jazz vocabulary define jazz? What do we seek in a jazz vocabulary? Sometimes, the answer is as simple as truth.
Intuitive and spontaneous. Fredriksen’s sound is nurtured and encouraged in a way that it stayed pure and lucid from the outside noise. It allows the messages and creative ideas to flow freely and interact with its other in the most natural, stimulated form that it is reflective and nostalgic to experiences, memories, and spirituality.
Inspired by life and written about life, the music Christer Fredriksen shares with Mauve has tastes, color, and scent. It wrapped your auditory system with multi-dimensional production that projects each sound to every detail from its location, distance, and altitude. It captures the moments and experiences in life in a cinematic, sensitive, and romantic way.
Christer Fredriksen is an artist, a perfectionist, and a keen observer. Mauve is intricate, sensitive, and immersive in that it brings you an experience that goes beyond the senses. From a personal, intimate perspective to the grand capture of dawn, wind, and clouds, Mauve is a mixture of those immediate, deeply touching experiences in a close-up position. It evokes different feelings and textures through the artist’s unique lenses and gives it a personal touch to the sound itself.