"Just Awake" is a new direction of neo jazz: dark, roaring, ambiguous and aggressive. It breaks the sonic ground while remaining lyrical and fluid all the time, even in the chaotic movements. Pure avant-garde.
-WIndout
Antti Lähdesmäki (FIN)
Pauls Pokratnieks (LT)
Daniel Andersson (SE)
The minimalist music continues with "Dream of Pike Lake" (Andersson with the bow) that evokes a beautiful landscape that is calm and disturbing at the same time; memories, melancholy, longing for stays lived in other places. A remark, correctly, no boasting is needed to convey sensations.
-La Habitación del Jazz
The listener has no chance to be bored even for a fraction of a second.
All twelve unstretched compositions, as mentioned above, are created by free improvisation, during which the protagonists show a congenial creative feeling for building structure and texture.
***** - Jazzport
And when they bring forth the lyrical, like in the eighth track “Just Awake pt. 2”, one can simply lean back and enjoy
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A fine debut from three musicians one should follow.
-salt peanuts*
A real jazz pearl!
-Lira
contact: anjolahd@gmail.com