This four-album box set is the equivalent of dropping a pebble of Norite into a mirror lake. Perfect undulations of electronica, sustained tones and eerie vocalisations ripple out, but the central peak is Arve Henriksen with his inherently natural trumpet style. Half brass, half breath, it is his expressive control, layered details and ear for a delicious melody that lifts this set from limp-ambient to a seductive and genuinely touching listen. Floating inches above a spacious tundra of synths, samples, drones, quivers and echoes, there is much to savour. The clang of an anvil, the toll of a bell, a shred of harmonica – so naïve and sweet; and moments such as the ending of ‘Tilia Cordata’ from Captured Under Mountainsides when a whisper of Henriksen’s high-pitched voice is an angel lifting it all up into cumulus clouds. Acousmograph is a solo outing with the celeste, harmonium and piano showing it’s not about the trumpet, more the themes harbouring in Henriksen’s DNA. Cryosphere is less varied, however the inclusion of percussionists brings a textural kick, for example, ‘Levitation’ and it is Towards Language – Live at Punkt that adds a real zing from the adrenalin of the performance and alchemy of Henriksen’s relationship with PUNKT festival founders, Erik Honoré and Jan Bang. In essence, this is a box set of wordless poetry, Henriksen recording phrases and thoughts for over 10 years, and then, with trusted collaborators, re-imagining them into complete pieces. At times the narrative is epic or sacred, tensions are stretched, or stillness descends. The emotional colouring is often heart-rending, in the way of a mauve sky at dusk, with that elevating beauty of the loss of daylight. Henriksen’s timing, his use of discordancy (such as unsettling organ notes), a sense of near, far, expansion, humility, and a playing of the trumpet that never pushes away, but draws you in, deeply. This is a creative soul at a point of maturity and if you didn’t treat yourself at Christmas, The Timeless Nowhere is a delectable gift.