A "Sound Unidentified Object"! ! !

Koto, voice and bass, the three elements here of a very unusual album and a complete success. The Swedish veteran bassist Jormin - known for his own albums and his work with Bobo Stenson and Charles Lloyd - enlisted the 25 string koto the extraordinary Karin Nakagawa and incantatory voice of Swedish folk singer Lena Willemark. Recorded in Sweden in May 2013, we delight in listening to something totally unclassifiable texture throughout the dozen songs written by one or the other musicians. Jormin crosses music, moods with different backgrounds (Northern Europe, Middle East, Japan) with real happiness. A musical show that traditions when mastered (not pressed against each other or loosely (con) fused) meet on a universal beauty plan (which here clearly involved the incantatory song, chant sounding say ... shamanic). A "Sound Unidentified Object" in the ECM firm's catalog which again surprises us by his audacity, his musical nonconformity. To listen urgently.