Vesala, Edward / Sound & Fury
Album: Sound & Fury   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Vesala, Edward   Added:Jul 1995
Label:Ecm Records  

Recent Airplay
1. Jul 20, 2007: Memory Select
Streaming Below the Times

Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2007-07-21
Reasonably thoughtful near-classical stuff from a Finnish composer who died in 1999.

More brash than a lot of "serious" music or ECM-label sessions, because it's got three saxophones up front and a couple of other horns to boot ... but also guitar, harmonica, cello, and accordion showing up in spots.

Sometimes the horns get joyous and even a bit silly; other tracks take a darker, midnight-sun view. Dig the band photo: They're all standing out in the snow, looking gruff and serious, and Vesala (who I presume is in the middle) has a big ol' walrus moustache.

This is one of several albums Vesala did with ECM, dating back to the '70s.

Track Listing
1. Bird of the High Room   7. Lavander Lass Blossom
2. Fulflandia   8. Streaming Below the Times
3. The Quay of Meditative Futue   9. One-Two-Three or 4-5-6
4. Hadendas   10. A Significant Look of Birche
5. Unexpected Guest   11. On the Shady Side of Forty
6. Bluego   12. Flavor Lust