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Dave Lindholm - Otto Donner: More Than 123

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 7, 2012

Di nuovo sotto il sole non c'è nulla, ma in questi casi nulla di nuovo si chiede. Se avete amato le atmosfere da bar di Closing Time, e più in generale di tutto il primissimo Tom Waits, proverete un certo piacere assaporando, come un vecchio whisky, le sette tracce di More Than 123, EP lungo (o album breve) di Dave Lindholm e Otto Donner. Due vecchie volpi della scena finlandese che fra jazz cantabile e blues da nostalgia infinita confezionano ...

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Album Review

Dave Lindholm / Otto Donner: More Than 123

Read "More Than 123" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
November 7, 2011

The world is a heavy object: a very heavy object. And there are times on More Than 123 when the weight of the world seems to press down particularly heavily on the shoulders of Finnish singer and guitarist Dave Lindholm. Thankfully, Lindholm responds with a wealth of stories delivered with a gritty, bluesy, voice and backed by the darkly atmospheric sounds of a fine band conducted by Otto Donner. Both Lindholm and Donner are veterans of the ...