Fraanje shows he is a pianist of supreme quality.
AllMusic (US) — Mats Eilertsen Trio
Harmen Fraanje is emerging as one of the most impressive European pianists of his generation.
All About Jazz (US)
What has been strange becomes familiar. And what has been familiar acquires the glow of mystery. A beautiful album.
Werner Herzog — Reijseger Fraanje Sylla
How does pianist Harmen Fraanje do it? That crystal-clear twinkle in every key he presses. It makes his playing recognisable among thousands. The sound floors you.
de Volkskrant (NL) — Mats Eilertsen Trio
In recent years Harmen Fraanje has found his lyrical place in the jazz landscape like no one else.
Harmen Fraanje har de senere årene funnet sin lyriske plass i jazzlandskapet som ingen andre.
Salt Peanuts (NO) — Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje
He sets dots, draws fine lines into the space, and often waits exactly the right fraction of a second before striking the next key.
Er setzt Punkte, zeichnet feine Linien in den Raum und wartet oft genau den richtigen Bruchteil einer Sekunde ab, bevor er den nächsten Anschlag setzt.
Mackern (DE) — Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje
Intimidatingly beautiful.
de Volkskrant (NL) — Reijseger Fraanje Sylla
He plays exactly the right notes, which steal into the listener’s soul, and you almost feel your pulse slowing.
Han spiller akkurat de rette tonene som kryper inn i sjelen på lytteren og man nærmest merker at pulsen synker.
Salt Peanuts (NO) — Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje
Dutch pianist Fraanje is a real find. Blessed in equal measure with a fine touch and wide-ranging dynamic sensitivity, he has both terrific technique and the intelligence to temper that technique, whenever necessary, in spacious service of the music as a whole.
Jazz Journal (UK) — Mats Eilertsen Trio
He doesn’t roll out a carpet for Henriksen — he builds him a whole cathedral of sound.
Er rollt Henriksen keinen Teppich aus, er baut ihm eine ganze Kathedrale aus Klang.
Mackern (DE) — Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje
Henriksen and Fraanje are two of the most lyrically oriented players in contemporary jazz.
Jazz Journal (UK) — Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje
It must be among the most beautiful things to have passed through Manfred Eicher’s eye of the needle at ECM in a long time.
det må være noe av det vakreste som er kommet gjennom nåløyet til Manfred Eicher i ECM på lang tid.
Salt Peanuts (NO) — Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje
Intense conversations and respectful listening keep the constant harmony intact. No egotistical scenes, just spatial group improvisation.
de Volkskrant (NL) — Harmen Fraanje Trio
Fraanje, a very great pianist who always comes in at exactly the right moment, with a sensitivity of touch matched only by the delicacy of his melodic thinking.
Fraanje, très grand pianiste qui intervient toujours à point nommé, avec une sensibilité de toucher qui n’a d’égale que la délicatesse de son propos mélodique.
Jazz Magazine (FR) — Reijseger Fraanje Sylla
There are moments of otherworldly beauty, with a searching quality mostly driven by Fraanje’s exceptional pianism.
AllMusic (US) — Mats Eilertsen Trio
Fraanje’s playing suggests the pianist has spent more than a single hotel night in Norway in recent years.
Fraanjes spill her skulle tyde på at pianisten har tilbragt mer enn et hotelldøgn i Norge de senere årene.
Salt Peanuts (NO) — Mats Eilertsen Trio
The elegantly less-is-more Dutch pianist Harmen Fraanje.
Jazzwise (UK) — Mats Eilertsen Trio
Fraanje is a fascinating and singular pianist whose beautiful playing pulls melodic lines just slightly off the rails, only to return to them gloriously.
Written in Music (NL) — Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje
Fraanje’s playing, minimalist and full of restraint, magnificently envelops his partner’s solos.
Le jeu de Fraanje, minimaliste, tout en retenue, enveloppe magnifiquement les soli de son partenaire.
Jazzmania (BE) — Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje
While many jazz pianists’ playing lacks clarity, Fraanje’s got it. What’s more, he plays with feeling and elegance.
NRC Handelsblad (NL) — Harmen Fraanje Trio
One of these piano introductions is so perfectly formed you could believe Edvard Grieg had written it.
Ein av desse er så formfullendt at ein kunne tru det var ført i pennen av Edvard Grieg.
Salt Peanuts (NO) — Mats Eilertsen Trio
His playing has a freshness and spontaneity — he seems to have held on to a kind of boyishness, while showing a fine balance with experience and craftsmanship. Something like controlled impetuousness.
8Weekly (NL) — Harmen Fraanje Trio
Their alchemy of original material, yielding equal parts silver and gold, may just be the finest ECM album of 2024.
Between Sound and Space (US) — Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje
Arve Henriksen and Harmen Fraanje have long been among the leading minds of the contemporary European improvisation scene.
Arve Henriksen und Harmen Fraanje gehören schon seit geraumer Zeit zu den führenden Köpfen der zeitgenössischen europäischen Improvisationsszene.
JazzEcho (DE) — Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje
Hearing Touch of Time is like being invited into a stranger’s lucid dream, enveloped with beauty.
The Big Takeover (US) — Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje
Touch of Time is one of the label’s most stirring recent examples of double-narrative.
Dusted (US) — Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje
Some kind of world record in creative collective development of written material.
en slags verdensrekord i kreativ kollektiv utvikling av skrevne forløp.
Jazz i Norge (NO) — Mats Eilertsen Trio
A sustained work of beauty and sublime human interaction, the album becomes more revelatory upon each successive listen.
ArkivJazz (US) — Mats Eilertsen Trio
He plays silence as much as he plays piano.
Han spelar tystnad lika mycket som han spelar piano.
Tidningen Kulturen (SE) — Mats Eilertsen Trio
Among the world’s great bands.
Sydney Morning Herald (AUS) — Reijseger Fraanje Sylla
Played with an unforced expressive honesty.
Los Angeles Times (US) — Reijseger Fraanje Sylla
A lyrical piano that treasures the possibilities of every single note.
リリカルな…１音の可能性を非常に大事にしているピアノ
My Secret Room (JP) — Mats Eilertsen Trio
Down Deep is a mightily constructed edifice, reaching towards untouchable peaks.
Jazzenzo (NL) — Reijseger Fraanje Sylla
An unorthodox Dutch/Finnish trio which takes medieval hymns and transforms them into quizzical, drone-based experimental miniatures.
The Guardian (UK) — Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola
Piano trios exist in abundance. Few are as unique as this one.
Pianotrioar finst i hopetal. Få er så unike som denne.
Dag og Tid (NO) — Mats Eilertsen Trio
This album touches on that essence as expressed in music, and I can think of few other examples so well done in our time.
Fanfare (US) — Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola
With piano and drums sailing through sidereal, extreme atmospheres with a sharpened lyricism.
Con pianoforte e batteria a veleggiare entro atmosfere siderali ed estreme con acuminato lirismo.
Corriere della Sera (IT) — Mats Eilertsen Trio
A heartwarming hypnosis — quiet poetry of a kind rarely heard.
Enola (BE) — Out of the Wild
There are concerts where the musicians come very close to you, where they translate into music what you feel to be pure, unadulterated and real.
PlusEtage (NL) — Harmen Fraanje Trio