Title - Sphere
Artist - Bobo Stenson Trio
For those unaware, the Bobo Stenson Trio’s ability to cover far-reaching idioms and wide-ranging repertoire within the scope of their personal diction has become both hallmark and custom.
New York Times says the pianist makes sublime piano-trio records without over-playing. It’s pulsating, lumpy with long improvised phrases; it’s alive.
Charting a subtle and idiosyncratic path through originals and melodies derived from various Scandinavian composers, the group proves of a particularly supple alchemy on his brand new recording, Sphere (due out April 7th, 2023 via ECM Records).
1. You shall plant a tree
2. Unquestioned answer - Charles Ives in memoriam
3. Spring
4. Kingdom of coldness
5. Communion psalm
6. The red flower
7. Ky and beautiful madame Ky
8. Valsette op. 40/1
9. You shall plant a tree (var.)
This beautifully crafted new recording opens in the languishing beauty within You shall plant a tree and the stoically emboldened Unquestioned answer - Charles Ives in memoriam, and then brings us the veritably crystalline Spring, the quietly furtive Kingdom of coldness, and the ornately-sculptured Communion psalm.
Along next is one of my own personal favorites from this veritably crystalline recording, the shuffling sensitivity found within The red flower which is itself backed by the tentatively-nurtured Ky and beautiful madame Ky, the album rounding out on the imbued-lucidiness of Valsette op. 40/1, coming to a close on a variation of the opening track, You shall plant a tree.
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