You can hear the Hedvig Mollestad Trio purring at this reissue: as ever this is an ECM no frills revisit, but who would want any ‘bonus’ features for this essential recording? Because one of the joys of returning to Blue is rediscovering the programming of the music: each note, each phrase, each song may inhabit its own soundworld, but there's an overall architecture to the album that leads to the whole release feeling like a composed entity. It's almost impossible not to play the album all through in a single sitting, which of course its 35 minutes easily allows you to do. So the overture tease of ‘The Curse’ morphs into the epically remorseless ‘Kompet Gar’, replete with that elbows out bass riff, and the bizarre leap into ‘Once I Had A Secret Love’. Mix in the Mingus moody ‘I Disremember Quite Well’ followed by the sound oceans of ‘Og Hva Synes Vi Om Det’, rich with Rypdal's love of Ligeti, and you know this is a special recording. And yet, somehow, as the gorgeous title-track testifies, all Rypdal ever really wanted to be was Hank Marvin. Simply the best.