Solemnity comes in many forms. It is a feeling that steps out of time. It applies the brakes. And so does Garden of Expression. The boisterous Joe Lovano is not the player who shows up here. Neither is it the totally free Marilyn Crispell. Perhaps the shamanic quality of the record, certainly strongly felt, emanates most from the colouristic work of percussionist Carmen Castaldi and yet that feeling continuously circulates. A much better record and going deeper than Trio Tapestry and also very different to Lovano's moving collaboration with Marcin Wasilewski released last year the trio do contemplative poise more than well. Overall a very aesthetic mood piece where less is more but not a clinical minimalist excursion at all. Instead there is a complete communion all of their own highly mystical invention. On ECM
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