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Morten Olsen's 'Be My Quiet Friend' is an album of paradoxes. It took more than ten years to produce, but it is based on moments. It makes use of improvisation and lets the musicians play “whatever occurs to them,” but has been trimmed, edited and manipulated ad infinitum. Certain passages are entirely improvised, while others were written out in detail. And the triumph is that it is in fact pointless to try to distinguish between the two...