out: 12.12.2025 on SOFA Music

For the Norwegian guitarist Ivar Grydeland, there’s little choice but to consider the water —living, as he does, on the peninsula of Nesodden, a short ferry ride across the fjord from Oslo. A key performer in Norway’s experimental scene with groups that include the genre-spurning Dans les arbes and Huntsville, Grydeland first enlisted aquatic inspiration on his 2012 debut solo record, “Bathymetric Modes” (Hubro), a warm, shimmering record with debts to minimalism and ambient music, modelled on the contours of underwater topography.