Aspen Edities is pleased to present Aerial, the third album of the experimental quartet Oker.
Whereas their album debut Husene våre er museer (2018) and its follow-up Susurrus (2021)
focused on collective and individual compositions, Aerial features two longform pieces of fully
improvised music, sculpted from the recognizable acoustic sound palette that the quartet has
developed across a decade of extensive touring. The titles, Aerial, Equinoctial Tide and Crepuscular
Rays refer to meteorological and planetary phenomena, and in Oker’s interplay we hear light, wind,
clouds, and tidal cycles transpire as shimmering, roaring, rubbing, coalescing and diverging
environments of sound. The sonic stoicism and minimalism in their expression is challenged by
frictioning micro-chaoses, combining to create calm, winding paths of musical detail and form.
Echoing our planet and its meteorological reality, Aerial yields both consistency and perpetual
change.

Oker is an acoustic experimental quartet focusing on the amalgamation of improvised and
composed modes of expression. Their music combines fine-tuned
tonalities, deconstructed grooves, acoustic noise and other sonic events, taking their rather
conventional instrumentation as a point of departure. Textures in gradual change coexisting with
responsive and spontaneous gestures create a varied but coherent musical ecosystem which can be
airy or dense, dry or blooming. A certain minimalist or stoic approach to sound production is an
overarching and recurring element in all of Oker’s music, differentiating their sound from the
majority of music in the field of improvised music or free jazz