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UK Mall 1 - Strange Place for Snow
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List Price: £5.99
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Manufacturer: Sony/Columbia
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0886972437521
Format: Import
Label: Sony/Columbia
Manufacturer: Sony/Columbia
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony/Columbia
Release Date: 2008-03-01
Studio: Sony/Columbia
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Summary: Great trio finding their voice..
Comment: If you're searching for pure trio Jazz, EST may not be what you're looking for. There are no gigantic solo's or battling ego's going on, most of the time it's the great sound of good ensemble-playing and in that there are no passengers in this trio. Dan Berglund is a lyrical, steady bass-player, Magnus Ostrum is a fast and subtle drummer and Esbjorn Svensson seems to mix a classical style of playing with parts of Bill Evans and Chick Corea. And, of course, there's the use of distorting filters, synths and effect pedals.
EST doesn't seem to find the balance here yet between the traditional and 'modern' stuff (their next two cd are just right in that respect), but the melodies and lyricism are there; esp. ïn the wonderful Bound For The Beauty Of The South or the energy of the hard rocking Behind the Yashmak.
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Summary: Thanks EST!
Comment: Sometime you feel like you dont have more power to continue and everything looks blurry, meaningless. Rarely something comes along and changes the way you look towards life, fills you up, makes everything around you look great, meaningful and clear. This album is that something.Thanks EST!
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Summary: Brilliant new style "old style" jazz...
Comment: If you thought there wasn't much left to explore in "old style" contemporary jazz then think again for E.S.T.'s "Strange Place for Snow" is exactly what its title suggests - something beautifully familiar in a very different landscape. Working off a standard piano, double bass & drum acoustic line-up and carefully constraining their "explorations" within the well-proven structures that work with it, they conjure up that most difficult of things: something radically new from a conventional format.With more than a passing nod to Bill Evans' evocatively lilting piano style, backed up by some wonderful bass and drum playing, they mix-in odd electronic hooks and surprisingly powerful melodic structures without losing the laid-back feel of this essentially romantic style of music. Clever?... yes, but not too-clever and, as a result, brilliantly restrained and wholly effective. Another example, alongside Bugge Wesseltoft's and Jaga Jazzist's more avant-garde outings, of the quite extraordinary jazz that is now pouring out of Scandinavia.
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Summary: Unpredictable, and compelling.... Fantastic
Comment: I have never listened to a cd so many times in a row!!! the music is nothing like you have ever heard - the closest thing one can relate this to is Radiohead...but for jazz. The albulm opens up with a straight ahead light swing jazz track that is the appetiser for what is to come. the second track employs unorthodox rhythms and use of the bass (being used for the timbral effects as well as establishing a harmony) and Esbjorn is continuously on form with his superlative piano playing. Although they use synthesisers, they are not used as one might expect. they are used for their atmospheric effect that they give to the music, particularly on "behind the yashmak".
But the groups technical abillities really come out on "when God created the coffee break" which is reminiscent of Bach and has a great drive to it. It ends with the hauntingly eerie "carcrash".
This is one of those recordings that the more you listen to it, the more you will notice about a tune and you will notice something different every time!
Also to keep the listener interested, they have added a little something at the end.....
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great trio finding their voice..
Comment: If you're searching for pure trio Jazz, EST may not be what you're looking for. There are no gigantic solo's or battling ego's going on, most of the time it's the great sound of good ensemble-playing and in that there are no passengers in this trio. Dan Berglund is a lyrical, steady bass-player, Magnus Ostrum is a fast and subtle drummer and Esbjorn Svensson seems to mix a classical style of playing with parts of Bill Evans and Chick Corea. And, of course, there's the use of distorting filters, synths and effect pedals.
EST doesn't seem to find the balance here yet between the traditional and 'modern' stuff (their next two cd are just right in that respect), but the melodies and lyricism are there; esp. ïn the wonderful Bound For The Beauty Of The South or the energy of the hard rocking Behind the Yashmak.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Thanks EST!
Comment: Sometime you feel like you dont have more power to continue and everything looks blurry, meaningless. Rarely something comes along and changes the way you look towards life, fills you up, makes everything around you look great, meaningful and clear. This album is that something.Thanks EST!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Brilliant new style "old style" jazz...
Comment: If you thought there wasn't much left to explore in "old style" contemporary jazz then think again for E.S.T.'s "Strange Place for Snow" is exactly what its title suggests - something beautifully familiar in a very different landscape. Working off a standard piano, double bass & drum acoustic line-up and carefully constraining their "explorations" within the well-proven structures that work with it, they conjure up that most difficult of things: something radically new from a conventional format.With more than a passing nod to Bill Evans' evocatively lilting piano style, backed up by some wonderful bass and drum playing, they mix-in odd electronic hooks and surprisingly powerful melodic structures without losing the laid-back feel of this essentially romantic style of music. Clever?... yes, but not too-clever and, as a result, brilliantly restrained and wholly effective. Another example, alongside Bugge Wesseltoft's and Jaga Jazzist's more avant-garde outings, of the quite extraordinary jazz that is now pouring out of Scandinavia.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Unpredictable, and compelling.... Fantastic
Comment: I have never listened to a cd so many times in a row!!! the music is nothing like you have ever heard - the closest thing one can relate this to is Radiohead...but for jazz. The albulm opens up with a straight ahead light swing jazz track that is the appetiser for what is to come. the second track employs unorthodox rhythms and use of the bass (being used for the timbral effects as well as establishing a harmony) and Esbjorn is continuously on form with his superlative piano playing. Although they use synthesisers, they are not used as one might expect. they are used for their atmospheric effect that they give to the music, particularly on "behind the yashmak".
But the groups technical abillities really come out on "when God created the coffee break" which is reminiscent of Bach and has a great drive to it. It ends with the hauntingly eerie "carcrash".
This is one of those recordings that the more you listen to it, the more you will notice about a tune and you will notice something different every time!
Also to keep the listener interested, they have added a little something at the end.....
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