First published in 2014. Last heard from, Olavi Luohivuori was appearing with prog-jazzers Oddarrang. Now here with his brother, trumpeter Jorma Kalevi Luohivouri, who opens on ‘Waves’ in the style of Nils Petter Molvær altering dramatically to a more mainstream style on ‘Dark Forest’, and with bassist Antti Lötjonen, the drummer is playing to a different beat and adopting a different, less prominent role.
Nearly all the tunes on this studio album, where lovingly harvested electronics mingle with acoustic sounds that were all recorded in February seven years on from the first of the trio’s albums for Camjazz, are the trumpet-playing Luohivuori’s. And while not exactly gripping it’s all perfectly listenable to, the freebop stop/start oddity ‘Old Devil’s Boogie’ maybe the pick. However, the trio have their work cut out to match Oddarrang’s ideas and sheer imagination. SG
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