Reviewed: 2018-11-12
Genre: Jazz
FCCs: none
Review: “Sweden's Susanna Risberg …… stakes a strong claim as a significant new arrival in contemporary jazz …… Many of her pieces have pleasingly askew melodic lines and rhythmic frameworks that shift between the dynamic and static, introducing welcome subtleties into moments when the improvisations reach fever pitch. Risberg has some of the piercing, steely tonal richness of maverick players in the mould of Gábor Szabó, and she deconstructs themes with an eye-of-the-needle precision, finding myriad phrasal variations, often in volleys of quicksilver sixteenth notes, while keeping tight on the pulse of the music.” – Kevin Le Gendre, Jazzwisemagazine.com
If You Like: Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Jakob Bro
Track Review (favorites denoted by *):
*1/ Leo – guitar starts slow & morphs into midtempo jam> builds in volume & intensity> guitar solo> piano solo> uptempo jam mellows to midtempo & fades
*2/ Lotasse – guitar starts slow & morphs into slow & hesitating jam> sax solo> slow jam builds in volume & intensity> pause> slow jam> fade
3/ Hasse & Gnutta – bass/drums start> midtempo jam> quick stop
*4/ Lotus Blossom – guitar starts slow> slow jam> bass solo> slow jam> slow fade
*5/ Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor Op. 67: Ill Largo – slow guitar solo>fade
*6/ Kirika – guitar starts> uptempo jam> piano solo> midtempo jam> quick fade
7/ Jubal’s Jug – drums start> heavy midtempo jam> quickly drops to slow jam> bass solo> slow jam builds to midtempo> slow fade
8/Hast(era) – guitar starts> slow jam> slow fade
*9/ Vilddjur – guitar starts slow> slow jam increases in volume & intensity, then morphs into slow rocking jam & slows to fade