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Sverre Gjørvad: Time To Illuminate Earth

Read "Time To Illuminate Earth" reviewed by Pat Youngspiel

by Pat Youngspiel
December 19, 2021

Recorded in July 2021, mixed and mastered in September and released in October. Now that's what a tight release schedule looks like. Frisellian shimmer and sparsely percussive drumming return on Sverre Gjørvad's follow-up to the surprisingly resonant Elegy of Skies (Losen Records, 2020). The short period of time it took to produce Time To Illuminate Earth doesn't reflect the length of the music's effect. Gjørvad builds on the strengths of his earlier album--an eerie minimalism paired with pristine acoustics—and adds ...

Album Review

Sverre Gjørvad: Elegy Of Skies

Read "Elegy Of Skies" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
December 6, 2020

Sverre Gjørvad's 2019 offering Voi River (Losen Records) saw the Norwegian drummer painting minimalist sketches that mirrored his native environment. Taking up that thematic thread, his follow up effort opts for the gaze upward, reflecting on Norway's firmament in a musical Elegy of Skies. As compared to the predecessor, Gjørvad's 2020 sketchbook of ideas is even more melodically concise, conceptually stringent and technically refined. It sees him in expressive and sensitive interplay with a quartet that always seems to know ...