There's a modestly well-known Norwegian football player and manager by the name of Gunnar Halle (he ended a spell in England plying his trade with Wolverhampton Wanderers). This album isn't by him. Instead (and more fittingly) it's by the slightly less well-known Norwegian trumpeter of the same name. It's his first as leader, and it shows an admirable contemporary sensibility: think Miles circa Tutu and you'll get the general idea about the work's relationship to the current art-pop scene. Halle's fragile falsetto delicately adorns the charming title track and calls to mind Green Gartside, leader of Scritti Politti and co-writer of ‘Perfect Way’, one of the key tracks on that 1986-Miles disc. Halle blows up a storm on ‘Tropehjelm’ but for the most part he's preoccupied with creating more ethereal electonica-influenced soundscapes: ‘Port’ (half-)namechecks Bristolian trip-hop pioneers Portishead, while ‘This Last One Is For You’, beguilingly sung by Maria Laurette Friis, makes the link between Dummy and avant-garde jazz.