Lysne emphasizes that the pieces in The Grieg Code are not jazz versions of Grieg’s compositions. He employs set piano, string, and vocal pieces from Grieg within his own compositions, but he re-works them to the point that they are unrecognisable. Lysne transforms a soprano canto line into a cool bass line, and a violin phrase becomes a drum groove. Lysne calls this procedure "musical anagrams". An anagram is normally a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase (Listen = Silent). 

Lysne is such an original thinker that his musical anagrams are simply starting points for his excitingly original pieces. The compositions vibrate and pulsate, transport the listener, escalate into artfully interlocked and layered sounds as the music merges into masterful solos. The soloists include tenor saxophonist Tore Brunborg, flugelhorn-brass instrumentalist Arkady Shilkloper, and trombonist Helge Sunde – along with percussionist and mouth harp artist Terje Isungset. 

“An absorbingly lovely album. Individual, inventive and clearly jazz.”

THE IRISH TIMES (UK)