The Haiku Project - Life (2019)

Life … the precious time between one's birth and one's passing. A complex adventure of mercurial experiences, relationships, learning, growth, and all the emotions we, as sentient beings, are capable, life is light and dark, and all the shades between. On Hytteballe's latest, he sets these shades to rich, emotive music that shift and change as do the seasons and times of one's life.

An impressionistic look at what goes on between being and not being, Henrik Hytteballe turns his new age ear toward off the beaten path matters like a cow coming in to being, and turtles needing to be saved. With a spiritual undertone running through his compositions, you can feel the sacred view he has for living things. Not egghead stuff at all, this is solid listening material that takes you to that peaceful viewing stand from where you want to observe it all. --Chris Spector, Midwest Record