Jasper Høiby’s 3Elements ft. Xavi Torres & Naíma Acuña

On Conversations of Hope, released on Edition Records, the music moves fast and hits hard: clear melodic ideas, shifting time signatures and an acute sense of space. Acuña’s precise, driving drumwork and Torres’ harmonically focused piano playing connect closely with Høiby’s compositions, in which the double bass takes centre stage.

‘Høiby fashions his pieces so the lines between freedom and form are beautifully blurred — everything belongs, nothing is forced.’ (Mojo)