Ploug / Pettersen / Badenhorst / Equilibrium
Album: Equilibrium   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Ploug / Pettersen / Badenhorst   Added:Oct 2009
Label:Songlines Recordings  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2009-10-11 Pull Date: 2009-12-13 Charts: Jazz
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Recent Airplay
1. Dec 08, 2009: Memory Select
Warmth
4. Nov 14, 2009: Music Casserole
Epiphora
2. Dec 01, 2009: Memory Select
Epiphora
5. Nov 10, 2009: Seven Step Pyramid Program in Pyramid Schemes
Aerodie
3. Nov 17, 2009: Memory Select
November
6. Oct 23, 2009: No Cover, No Minimum
Fri

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2009-10-11
PLOUG/PETTERSEN/BADENHORST: Equilibrium
Songlines, 2009

AVANT-GARDE – Innovative trio (from Denmark, Norway and Belgium) with guitars, reeds and voice/live electronics. Combines stark beauty with uncomfortable harmony, or soothing calm with agitated tension; as a result, the close, intimate recording contrasts with often chilly content that can feel emotionally distant and disquieting.

* * * * | Fo’s Picks: 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 13

1. 0:42 – high, wordless vocal; sweet melody
2. 6:09 – voice drifts high above tight circular patterns from guitar & clarinet
3. 5:24 – solo voice, then trio; built on a simple phrase, reaching upward
4. 5:09 – wintry: stark solo clarinet, then tightly spinning trio
5. 4:10 – soft and folksy, but with an oddball harmonic approach
6. 8:30 – slow and eerie, very spacious: voice flutters & creaks in the dark
7. 0:47 – same melody as #1, calm chamber instrumental
8. 5:16 – very slow tiptoe melody; first in duets, then as a somber, sleepy trio
9. 2:57 – lonely voice floats over a quiet beeping loop, multiplies
10. 2:24 – tweaky electronics and creaky voice, becomes a quiet bubbling
11. 0:45 – same melody as #1 & #7, high, remote instrumental
12. 6:12 – horns casually drape melodies over a gentle guitar spiral
13. 2:46 – percussive, interesting blend of sounds, creepy vocal/breath noises
14. 4:56 – verrry sloooow, comes up from silence: the melodic fragment from tracks 1,7,11 leads into ominous atmosphere, low and creaky pulse

[ Fo ] 10/11/09

Track Listing
1. Chorale 1   8. Chords
2. November   9. Aerodie
3. Cathedral   10. Takt
4. Fri   11. Chorale 3
5. Soft Spoken   12. Warmth
6. Epiphora   13. Ambiente
7. Chorale 2   14. Chorale 4