Skala is the second studio album by Norwegian jazz musician Mathias Eick. This album was released by the label ECM Records on March 18, 2011 (2011-03-18).[5][6][7]

Skala
Studio album by Mathias Eick
Released	March 18, 2011 (2011-03-18)
Recorded	December, 2009 — January, 2010
Studio	Cabin Recorders, Bugges Room, and Pooka Studio, Oslo
Genre	Jazz
Length	41:41
Label	ECM Records ECM 2187
Producer	Mathias Eick, Manfred Eicher
Mathias Eick chronology
The Door (2008) Skala (2011) Midwest (2015)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	[1]
The Guardian	[2]
The Irish Times	[3]
PopMatters	7/10[4]

Reception

Brent Burton of JazzTimes stated "Is Skala a jazz record? The guy who made it, Mathias Eick, is certainly a jazz musician. The Norwegian trumpeter, age 31, improvises all over Vespers, the glacially paced new album from the Iro Haarla Quintet. But on Skala, his second (and most scripted) album as a leader, Eick largely sticks to melodies and motifs. His devotion to composition, coupled with drummer Gard Nilssen’s tendency to play in bouncy 4/4, means that, at times, Skala behaves less like modern jazz than it does horn-laden pop."[8] John Kelman of All About Jazz wrote "In the context of his own work, he continues to favor substance over style, and while the music of Skala is even more structured than that on The Door, when Eick does solo, it's with an economical precision that weaves through grooves and changes with equal aplomb."[1] Ray Comiskey of The Irish Times added "Eick is a beautiful, imaginative musician with a very Scandinavian sense of transience informing his melodic charm... But there’s not much blood in Skala, despite the sweat."[3]

Track listing

Personnel

• Mathias Eick – trumpet
• Andreas Ulvo – piano
• Audun Erlien – electric bass
• Torstein Lofthus – drums
• Gard Nilssen – drums
• Morten Qvenild – keyboards
• Tore Brunborg – tenor saxophone
• Sidsel Walstad – harp

References