The Norwegian mountains have always possessed a peculiar magnetism for Scandinavian musicians, their imposing silhouettes serving as both muse and metaphor for the austere beauty that characterises the region's most compelling contemporary jazz. Knut Kvifte Nesheim's latest offering with the Norwegian Jazz Orchestra OJKOS finds the drummer-composer gazing across Lake Løna toward the distant peak of Graosido—literally "grey side"—and discovering within its weathered countenance a mirror for the ensemble's own mercurial nature.