"Demonstrating significant growth, Arbor is a simply remarkable album where the slightest gradation speaks with great profundity.." Allaboutjazz.com Second album from youngsters Splashgirl see them re-inventing themselves from a piano trio in the European jazz tradition to a "band" in a more boundry-less musical landscape some place between ambient, experimental rock, jazz, and contemporary music. It is still improvised acoustic music, but it definetely sounds quite different. The music on "Arbor" takes a more minimalistic and defined collective approach where the use of long, sustained sounds binds together a broad palette of string- and percussion-instruments. The band mentions Eric Satie, Earth, Morton Feldman, and Oren Ambarchi as important references. Repetition and duration play a major role on "Arbor" as the music unfolds slowly and leaves a lot of room for a focus on details. "Patience is bliss" states bass player Jo Berger Myhre.Splashgirl play improvised music that doesn't sound improvised. This time they wanted to have a more collective approach to the music, and by improvising they have found sounds and song-ideas that they have developed further during the recording sessions. "Arbor" also features contributions by pedal steel guitarist Anders Hofstad Sorås, and singer/songwriter/soundartist Lasse Passage, two musicians with whom Splashgirl have been working closely with the last couple of years. Splashgirl was formed in 2004 on an initiative from pianist Andreas Stensland Lowe. He, Jo Berger Myhre and Andreas Lonmo Knudsrod had known each other since highschool, and had played together in several other bands. Their debut album "Doors. Keys" on AimSoundCity was released in 2007 to rave reviews."Arbor" was recorded in an old tree house called Biermannsgården in Oslo, and mixed by Ingar Hunskaar before pre-mastered to analogue tape by Lasse Passage.