Vocalist Norma Winstone teams together with pianist Kit Downes for a collection of intimate duets on this latest release. Her voice is quite the instrument, sighing over Downes on “Black is the Colour” and hovering like a haze during “El”. Downes’ touch has a dash of Bill Evans on the tensile undercurrent of “Jesus Maria” and supplants Winstone’s story on the poetic “Out of the Dancing Sea”, with both creating a starlit sky during “Rowing Home”. Crystal sparkles.