The new album from Norwegian tuba player Daniel Herskedal, Slow Eastbound Train, is to be released in March, Edition Records indicate.

Featuring the Trondheim Soloists Strings Chamber Orchestra, Eyolf Dale, and Helge Andreas Norbakken, Herskedal appears in duo with his Neck of the Woods playing partner Marius Neset at next month’s Fife Jazz Festival. ‘The Mistral Noir’, a composition that features on the new album, can be listened to above