Sothiac feat. Paul Jolly, Tiamat

Legato, aching passages and sense of stark isolation convey a doomy almost apocalyptic soundscape and centres on a core duo characterised by the formidable squeal and intensity of singer Pat Moonchy and her foil dreamy keyboardist Lucky Liguori. …

Published: 31 Jan 2021. Updated: 3 years.

Legato, aching passages and sense of stark isolation convey a doomy almost apocalyptic soundscape and centres on a core duo characterised by the formidable squeal and intensity of singer Pat Moonchy and her foil dreamy keyboardist Lucky Liguori. The featured artist well known on the UK indie-jazz scene is Paul Jolly who is here on bass clarinet. Jolly is on form amid this bristling undergrowth of carefully crafted subversive unease. Take a walk on the wild side. Out on 33 Jazz

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Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell, Carmen Castaldi. Garden of Expression

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 …

Published: 31 Jan 2021. Updated: 3 years.

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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