Global concerns cross with a global musical reach on Herskedal’s delicately exquisite and, perhaps, most improvfriendly recording to date.

Herskedal’s Voyage is to be taken literally, the album playing out as a series of impressionistic tone poems depicting ships at sea. The effect of the music is to place us onboard, as if seen through the eyes of sailors and passengers, and many of the tracks have a tremendous sense of forward motion, as if we are watching the bow of a ship cutting cut through the waves…The more I return to it the more the various layers reveal themselves.