Norwegian tuba player Daniel Herskedal’s Resonance is a solo album, but he certainly doesn’t sound lonesome as he stacks up a full picture of the Northern hinterlands, layering various horns (including bass trumpet), and crafting a percussive undertow with what sounds like his own breath emissions. Of course, we end up with a sonic spread that’s asking to be a movie score, or more likely music for a documentary, but still perfectly suited to the evocative solo listening experience, with peepers closed. The mind will paint its own panorama, surely of a melancholic nature. Ambient, atmospheric and evocative, Herskedal breathes mist across an endless icy surface, imagining a chilly brass band, marching in a different place. Unfortunately, the listener can’t avoid noting Herskedal’s debt to trumpeter Arve Henriksen, as he vocalises through his horn to the point of stealing the fellow Norwegian’s trademark sound (itself descended from Jon Hassell). Herskedal sounds like he’s adding keyboards and bass, but everything is generated by his horns, seemingly. A bright melancholy pervades, although there is a certain sameness to the proceedings. Sometimes it’s like choral music without the singers. The most morose tune is ‘The North Star’, and the most ethereal is ‘Thawing Permafrost’, but it’s ‘Walking The Clouds’ that switches the formula the most, a touch faster, with more bass notes and a solo taken.