Eldritch Priest is an experimental guitarist and composer from Vancouver. His music, writings and projects of all kinds are usually placed under the banner of the advanced, complex avant-garde, flirting with the absurd (he is a fellow member of the Pataphysique school, a movement initiated by French author Alfred Jarry and defined as “the science of imaginary solutions”). Surprisingly, Dormitive Virtue is an altogether soaring, restful album (with the exception of the first track). Priest describes it as a return to his early jazz roots. It doesn’t sound like jazz, except perhaps something of Scofield teamed up with Rypdal on ECM? Almost entirely improvised, Priest weaves a rather delicate web of sonorities ginned up like drops of water carried by a light night breeze.
Pleasant and introspective.
