by Peter Margasak (for the Chicago Reader)
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"..the other knockout set came from violinist Ola Kvernberg's trio with bassist Steinar Raknes and drummer Erik Nylander, joined by percussionist Børge Fjordheim. On his own Kvernberg opts for a sound much more spacious than the one I'd heard him use in Haaker Flaten's Chicago quintet--he lets the rhythm section build a foundation for dynamic improvisations equally invested in harmonic exploration and metric variation."