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Harmonica star Maret and pianist/composer Collin pay homage to Ennio Morricone with drifting church-echo and trancelike sounds. — The Guardian More…

Anyone who knows Ulf Wakenius’s work from his playing in Oscar Peterson’s latterday quartet will recall his combative jousting with OP, NHØP and Martin Drew. This beautifully measured homage... — Jazzwise, October 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This quartet blends elegant, bleakly beautiful Nordic airiness with rich textural and rhythmic elements from the Mahgreb (Arabic North-West Africa) and draws in Mali via the Desert Blues elements... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Lars Danielsson’s Libretto have staked-out a corner of jazz for themselves where calm, thoughtful, melodically based improvisation prevails. — Jazzwise, July 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The instrumentation is traditional and also thoroughly contemporary. There’s intense Korean shamanic singing set against rising rocky rhythms on ‘Exhale-Puri’, a great instrumental cover of... — Jazzwise, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

With this album, Poland’s most striking violin player since Michal Urbaniak has arrived at the discovery many jazz virtuosi have made, that virtuosity as a-thing-in-itself can overwhelm expression,... — Jazzwise, December 2021 - January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…