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This excellent Danish jazz trio—trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, guitarist Jakob Bro, and percussionist Marilyn Mazur—creates whole worlds with relatively spare means. Strands captures the group in a live 2023 performance at the Danish Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen; the room's resonance adds an important dimension to the group's finely crafted sound.
On "Gefion," Mikkelborg's warm, breathy flugelhorn etches a melody that evokes the directness of folk music and the expressiveness of a love song. Mazur's artful rattles, bowed-metal tones, and chiming percussion, along with Bro's pianissimo electric guitar, nicely play off Mikkelborg's carefully shaped lines. Later, Bro's electronic effects tint a passage where Mikkelborg is using a mute. Throughout, each shift in texture is wonderfully calibrated.
"Returnings," which was penned by Bro and Mikkelborg, has a dark vibe redolent of Bitches Brew and various Miles Davis recordings from the 1970s. Trumpet blasts, skronky guitar, and multifaceted drumming produce a sharp-edged tension. Mikkelborg surprisingly employs fluttering effects that harken back to Louis Armstrong, and somehow integrates them into this eerie setting. At one point the piece moves into a quiet zone where lovely electronics come to the fore.
The twelve-minute title track, a Bro original, is Strands's centerpiece. The guitarist's exquisite picking and Mazur's sensitive percussion set the scene here. When Mikkelborg's flugelhorn enters, the music blooms. Even when there are only a few elements at play, this threesome deftly conjures an intriguing environment. The color combinations are a study in how to paint vivid soundscapes with a handful of tones. © Fred Cisterna/Qobuz
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Marilyn Mazur, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Palle Mikkelborg, Trumpet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Thomas Vang, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Jakob Bro, Composer, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 ECM Records GmbH
Marilyn Mazur, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Palle Mikkelborg, Trumpet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Thomas Vang, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Jakob Bro, Composer, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 ECM Records GmbH
Marilyn Mazur, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Palle Mikkelborg, Composer, Trumpet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Thomas Vang, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Jakob Bro, Composer, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 ECM Records GmbH
Marilyn Mazur, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Palle Mikkelborg, Trumpet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Thomas Vang, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Jakob Bro, Composer, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 ECM Records GmbH
Marilyn Mazur, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Palle Mikkelborg, Composer, Trumpet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Thomas Vang, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Jakob Bro, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 ECM Records GmbH
Marilyn Mazur, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Palle Mikkelborg, Trumpet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Thomas Vang, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Jakob Bro, Composer, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 ECM Records GmbH
Album review
This excellent Danish jazz trio—trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, guitarist Jakob Bro, and percussionist Marilyn Mazur—creates whole worlds with relatively spare means. Strands captures the group in a live 2023 performance at the Danish Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen; the room's resonance adds an important dimension to the group's finely crafted sound.
On "Gefion," Mikkelborg's warm, breathy flugelhorn etches a melody that evokes the directness of folk music and the expressiveness of a love song. Mazur's artful rattles, bowed-metal tones, and chiming percussion, along with Bro's pianissimo electric guitar, nicely play off Mikkelborg's carefully shaped lines. Later, Bro's electronic effects tint a passage where Mikkelborg is using a mute. Throughout, each shift in texture is wonderfully calibrated.
"Returnings," which was penned by Bro and Mikkelborg, has a dark vibe redolent of Bitches Brew and various Miles Davis recordings from the 1970s. Trumpet blasts, skronky guitar, and multifaceted drumming produce a sharp-edged tension. Mikkelborg surprisingly employs fluttering effects that harken back to Louis Armstrong, and somehow integrates them into this eerie setting. At one point the piece moves into a quiet zone where lovely electronics come to the fore.
The twelve-minute title track, a Bro original, is Strands's centerpiece. The guitarist's exquisite picking and Mazur's sensitive percussion set the scene here. When Mikkelborg's flugelhorn enters, the music blooms. Even when there are only a few elements at play, this threesome deftly conjures an intriguing environment. The color combinations are a study in how to paint vivid soundscapes with a handful of tones. © Fred Cisterna/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 6 track(s)
- Total length: 00:46:52
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Palle Mikkelborg Jakob Bro Marilyn Mazur
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: ECM Records
- Genre: Jazz
© 2023 ECM Records GmbH ℗ 2023 ECM Records GmbH
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