Thoughts and dreams captured in sound…
Tenor saxist Mette Henriette sighs and gasps with pianist Johan Lindvall and cellist Judith Hamann on this collection of romantic melancholia. You can hear the saliva oozing between the mouthpiece and reed on the floating “Cadat, while he is emphysemic on the hazy “O” and he puffs out parlor sounds on the pretty “I Villvind” with Lindvall. The pianist is gentle on the cadence of “Chasse” and romantic for the pastoral “Rue du Renard” with the album feeling like a Hound of Baskervilles rolling in on the bog.
Pianist Kit Downs goes solo and duet with drummer Sebastian Rochford on this delicate and fragile release. All alone, Downes is personal on the dainty “Night of Quiet” and graceful for the understated “Communal Decisions with a porcelain glimmer to “Our Time Is Still”. For the most part, Rochford is felt more than heard, with his brushes barely caressing the lyrical story of “Silver Light” or creating shadows on “Ten of Us”. His cymbals create spaces for “This Tune Y our Ears Will Never Hear” and his sticks crate an old world feel on “Love You Grampa”. Subliminal sounds.