The first duo album by pianists Sten Sandell and Lisa Ullén, recorded in their home country of Sweden, performing eight freely improvised piano works which include the two-part "Double Music" and two-part "Onyx", each recording contrasting complex interplay of discord and harmony with beautiful passages of introspection and intellectual depth; a remarkable merging of masterful talent.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2021 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Musikaliska February 2021 by by Mats Äleklint. Mixed and mastered by Mats Äleklint. Inside photo by Mats Äleklint. Liner notes by Emil Strandberg. Produced by Sten Sandell and Lisa Ullén.
"This one is for all the piano lovers overthere. If you're a fan of the Scandinavian scene, you already know that Sten Sandell is one of the main representatives of that rich cauldron of creative jazz in Europe. And if you're attentive to what's new and fresh and creative in the jazzosphere, you already heard about the Korean-born, but living in Stockholm, Lisa Ullén, also a pianist.
Yes, this is a piano duo, playing Double Music as the title states. And that means you have piano sounds coming from everywhere, as if you were in the middle of the ocean and there's nothing but water around you and sun above. That's why the liner notes of the album are... a poem about music as a ship "traveling at the speed of sound through a sea of chords and discord", on the lookout for "ways of harboring all the harmonics". Sandell and Ullén sew a fishnet of pure pleasure, letting themselves follow the music where it takes them wave after wave, "finding paths navigable". And we go with them, unware of the liquid travel, seated at our homes, in Summer bliss."-Clean Feed