This new opus by Norwegian drummer Thomas Str\u00f8nen is a masterpiece of nuanced half-tones, favouring chiaroscuro lighting, conveying delicate, whispered emotions of infinite richness and very pleasant complexity. All this in a spirit of restraint and economy that Str\u00f8nen sums up as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nWith this ensemble, it\u2019s rather about taking away than bringing more into the music<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Through seven compositions of rare intelligence, Str\u00f8nen and his excellent companions (Ole Morten V\u00e5gan on double bass, Ayumi Tanaka on piano, H\u00e5kon Aase on violin, and Leo Svensson Sander on cello) gently guide us into a world of imprecise and undulating harmonies, sometimes even atonal, of evanescent colours and fluid, ductile rhythms. At the turn of a phrase, a spectral cello melody that evokes an arabesque, elsewhere the scattering of notes on the piano that induces a veiled impressionism, or the soft granularity of Str\u00f8nen’s drums that creeps in like a fleeting but still partially conscious dream. Two pieces display more prominent sonic asperities: Cubism<\/em>, which thus bears its title well, and Dismissed <\/em>with its atonal noise-like expression, although fortunately not thunderous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Time Is A Blind Guide: Off Stillness<\/em> is an album of masterful poetry that you would be ill-advised not to greatly appreciate if you consider yourself even slightly a music lover. po\u00e9sie magistrale que vous seriez malvenu de ne pas appr\u00e9cier grandement si vous vous consid\u00e9rez le moindrement m\u00e9lomane.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n