For Renstemt Klaver (For justly-tuned piano) is a six-track journey into mechanism-played piano composition from Norway’s Jo David Meyer Lysne. Seemingly, Mr Lysne is most known for his work in jazz circles playing the guitar, so this is quite a departure, the results are best described as ambience, with a fairly glum/ at points dissonant leaning.

Apparently, the set up for the release saw the inside of the grand piano being mounted with electronic magnets, one per piano key/ string. So, as the magnets come down on the strings, vibrations are created. I’m unsure how much control Lysne has over these, or for that matter the tech behind it, but it certainly creates quite distinctive/interesting sound.

Each track has a runtime between one and nearing eight minutes. We move from the church organ simmer meets melancholic hovering of  “I” which drifts between almost regal harmonics and forlorn dissonance. Onto wavering flow of  “IV” with its mix of billowing pitch droning and glum toll ‘n’ shimmer.

In the album's second half, we go from trying to stay in-key warble meets reluctantly climbing flow of “V”. Onto the sustain layers of dense hover and drone that is “VII”- which treads the line between rising &  gloomy down pull.

As an album, For Renstemt Klaver creates a decidedly hazed and wavering sonic place, which I can see being effective for either grey day ponderings, or moments of glum thoughtfulness.