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Helena Espvall
Ziv Taubenfeld / Helena Espvall / João Sousa: You, Full Of Sources And Night
by Mark Corroto
Allow me to quote the interstellar traveler Sun Ra: “They speak of cosmic rays of sound / Wavelength infinity / Always touching planets / In opposition outward bound." He may or may not have been speaking of Eric Dolphy's 1960 Prestige recording of the same name. What we do know is that Dolphy, an accomplished and visionary musician on alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet, died tragically young at 36 from complications of diabetes. For the purposes of this review, ...
Continue ReadingHelena Espvall and Masaki Batoh
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JamBase
By: Dennis Cook
Almost courtly in its sumptuous lusciousness, this pairing of Ghost's Batoh and Espvall, cellest for the Espers, is graceful, lovely and timeless. The pair meet meets at a still point where experimental acoustic music, chamber orchestrations and international folk blend into a multilingual melange. The duo adapts traditional Swedish and Finnish tunes, medieval music and their own instrumental improvisations to create that rare thing - a completely unique new sound. Bird whistles, hammer dulcimer, dustings of electric ...
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