The pianist’s ECM debut, marking ten years of music-making in Norway; with double-bassist Christian Meaas Svendsen and drummer Per Oddvar Johansen.
‘There is an ascetic rigour in her playing, as well as a sense of space suggesting affinities with Japanese classical music. Ayumi views the trio as “more like a chamber ensemble. We share a flow of energy, even in silence.”’

Cecil Taylor collaborators Jimmy Lyons and Sunny Murray alongside the String Trio of New York bassist John Lindberg, giving the Willisau jazz festival what for, in August 1980.