Soft tones are the name of the game here by the Scandinavian quartet Pauseland. The team of Jakob Buchanan/fh, Christian Vuust/ts-cl, Soren Dahl Jeppesen/g and Klaus Norgaard/b create gentle impressionistic moods with an underlying pulse. Pastoral tones provided by fluffy brass and reeds are in abundance as subtly rhythms on guitar and bass on pieces like the tow parts of the title track or “icu” create nimbus clouds of sound. Vuust’s tenor is melancholy on “Waltz” while his clarinet is meditative along with Jeppesen’s guitar on the spacious “Folk Song.” Buchanon’s flugelhorn delicately blows on “I fly” and mutedly sighs on “Dead Ringer,” but the embers glow when both horn form together to create a creamy sauce of sounds as on “Awake” and “Viby J.” Sort of like a focus on the most tender chordal moments on Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue album, highlighting the tender sounds from “Blue in Green” and dissecting them to find the inner marrow.