Ok, är lite körnördig just nu, får skylla på årstiden. Men skivan vi spelade in tidigare i år har just fått en, ska vi säga, hyfsad recension: I’m not a big choral music person. I don’t know the first thing about it. Actually, that’s not true: the first thing about it is that people sing. There are a few more factoids that have made their way into my brain. The most important is that sometimes choral music sounds very good. The samples for this disc sounded very, very good indeed. So I took the plunge and yes indeed was hooked from the very first track. Gunnar Idenstam has overlaid a traditional Estonian hymn with a funky organ passacaglia that sounds straight from 1970s fusion jazz. The result is a delight which I can only describe as “kick-ass”. Apologies that that’s not typical reviewer-speak. On the other hand, the track-five minutes of continuous hymnal crescendo over the organ’s groovy figure-just plain kicks butt.
Posted on: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 22:43:17 +0000
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