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Whispering Images by Sylvie Courvoisier
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Album Title: Angel Falls
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2025
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About the Album
"Whispering Images" is a track from Angel Falls, the scintillating duo between Sylvie Courvoisier and Wadada Leo Smith. A product of mutual admiration, it arrives after a series of encounters in larger ensembles. Duets with piano form an enduring strand of Smith's work. Given his love of the format – he’s recorded with pianists as diverse as Vijay Iyer, John Tilbury, Angelica Sanchez, and Amina Claudine Myers – it was inevitable that he would suggest a record with Courvoisier. But it was the pianist who suggested that they avoid charts. As a result the eight tracks of Angel Falls possess a stunning immediacy and nonetheless, a sense of sonic architecture discovered anew. Each is a vivid, restless exchange of tone and texture, shapeshifting co-creations alternately volatile and melodic, spacious and elliptical, vulnerable and assertive. Without fail Smith and Courvoisier complement one another, with no recourse to obvious gambits. There's no comping, no showboating, only a constant sense of ongoing calibration, oblique elements somehow poised in the perfect balance. Such artistry draws on lifetimes of musical experience. And on this album the inspiration comes through remarkably unmediated.
Tracks
Olo'Upnea and Lightning; Naomi Peak; Whispering Images; A Line Through Time; Vireo Bellii; Angel Falls; Sonic Utterance; Kairos.
Personnel
Sylvie Courvoisier
piano
Wadada Leo Smith
trumpetReviews
- Angel Falls by Mike Jurkovic
- Angel Falls by Jack Kenny
Date featured
January 20, 2026
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