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DANIEL HERSKEDAL
Call For Winter
(2020 - Edition Records - EU)

Melt your stress away with this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq5eA-n_uGk

BUY THE CD:

https://danielherskedal.bandcamp.com/album/call-for-winter

Here is a fully sincere recommendation from yours truly. I was taken by surprise by not only the beauty but the whole of this album. With just a tuba ?  You must be out of your mind to think it could be THIS great!  But it could easily sit on the shelves of ECM label, however it is on Editions Records.  

"Daniel Herskedal has won the Spellemann Award (Norwegian Grammy) for his solo album ‘Call for Winter’."

A Norwegian tuba player and composer (who has an outstanding series of albums now), Daniel did one of those self isolation retreats to a remote cabin in Norway, did a do it yourself studio set up, and made this stunningly soul cleansing release. It is an instant recommendation and you can experience a composition and the video to go with it for yourself (see above links). The video piece is 'Time Of Water' so trace off to heaven all ye big beautiful noise fans (be sure to skip the ads in this You Tube clips). It shows the utterly spirit filled journey of nature, through thick and thin, odds and devilish conditions, and all out final do or die courage.  Humans need to pay  undistracted attention. There is another Norwegian master musician (Terje Rypdal, quite a bit older than Daniel) who put out a heavenly album called "Descendre" with a bewitching song called 'Speil' which instantly reminded me of the feature video . Simply gorgeous with a peripatetic theme.

 Twelve compositions of what could be described as beyond beautiful, take the listener into a safe, sombre, and pure world of meditative bliss. Not meditative as in light weight ambience, but in a very deep much needed kind of music which people truly need to cleanse themselves of negative energy, stress, and the all too taxing anxieties of life. If you think for a second that the album only has one tuba being played, allow me to correct you. Daniel used other horns, multi-tracking, mouth effects, looping, and a host of other enhanced techniques on his works. 'Call For Winter' was  released June 26, 2020 and recorded by Daniel Herskedal at Elgstuggu, Elgå, Norway.

The pieces are varied and often surprisingly different from one another. Yet all keep this very pure and serene atmosphere and quality. Some parts are swift and ample with air, soaked with patience and sad emotions, yet aspiration clings tight as the music carries on.  A brilliant soundtrack it can be, but without question is a remarkable and decidedly must listen. If there were a far more potent word than gorgeous, I could use it to brand this whole release. If you own or can hear Daniel's earlier albums, you will see he is no stranger to graceful and ethereal, even spiritual compositions. For me, this 2020 revitalizing release is his best yet. Lastly, THIS IS NUTTY FANTASTIC!!!  

  ©Reviewed by Lee Henderson  4 - 15 - 2021

 
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ACQUA FRAGILE
Moving Fragments
(2023 - Maracash - Italy)


https://maracashrecords.bandcamp.com/album/moving-fragments


  A group who have the uncanny talent of keeping their classic  sound along with staying up tpo date. This amazing return is from 1970's Italian progressive rock outfit, with frontier man lead vocal Bernardo Lanzetti, who made this band and some PFM albums so specifically brilliant. At this decade, to expect more beauty would be a fantasy, yet it is set before your ears, even with the first notes, this masterpiece of Italian, (and not only Italian) progressive rock that certainly grasps the notion of what the genre of "progressive" was always meant to be. ACQUA FRAGILE create another sweetly classic knockout recording, not with even a heavy breath of past to present effort.  In fact, it sounds and feels more authentic than ever.  Bernardo sounds as if he never aged a week, and all muscians present are at full force, not passing up the chance to make another massively classic album.   An album to put Acqua Fragile at the top of the few chosen progressive rock choices of all time. The first song ('Her Shadlows Torture' 05:52 - editors note:  A misspell on the 'Shadows' which is on Bandcamp at this writing - but is correct as 'Her Shadow's Torture' on physical CD)  hug you and give all relief, as to any possible doubts of a long awaited fourth album by this top notch Italian band. I claim it will leave your heart lay bleeding. Grab the spectral energy and enjoy a glimpse of beautiful cocoon birth.

  Not one song is with sacrifice, even a wink of lamb. In fact, some elements are added to further enchance and stun the audience, such as inclusive female vocals by Rossella Volta. The bulk of the outfit is Piero Canavera (drums, percussion, vocals),  Franz Dondi (bass), Bernardo Lanzetti (lead vocals, guitar, Glovox),  Stefano Pantaleoni (keyboards),  Claudio Tuma (guitars), with special aid by (aforementioned vocalist Rosella Voita) ,  Gigi Cavalli Cocchi - drums (1,6),  Sergio Ponti - drums (4,9), Stef Burns- guitar (2),  Brian Belloni - guitar (4),  Davide Piombino - 7 string guitar (5),  and David Jackson - sax & flute (6). Could you ask for more?   After one listen you cannot want more. Thank Maracash label (Italy) for standing behind so many great Italian artists who have done the blood, sweat, and tears in earlier years, and deserve the attention now.
Although the band name translates to 'Fragile Water', it might be better described as Precious Water at this point and time in our decreasingly cared for world. Perhaps even better, Rare Water. The beauty of this entire recording is apparent, true, sincere, and a step forward. Better than one would dream of, past the point of how all old fans could imagine, and  actually done in the upper atmospheres of what anyone could have dreamed of. Everyone is top notch and most of all, Lanzetti is 100% present, making it another masterpiece.  It is my deep recommendartion for all fans of both classic progressive rock and the new fields of progressive music to give this a direct and full attention (no distractions) listen. RECOMMENDED.
  ©Reviewed by Lee Henderson 1 - 19 - 2024


 

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