Helena Espvall

Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh

Source: JamBase
September 16, 2008

By: Dennis Cook

Almost courtly in its sumptuous lusciousness, this pairing of Ghost's Batoh and Espvall, cellest for the Espers, is graceful, lovely and timeless. The pair meet meets at a still point where experimental acoustic music, chamber orchestrations and international folk blend into a multilingual melange. The duo adapts traditional Swedish and Finnish tunes, medieval music and their own instrumental improvisations to create that rare thing - a completely unique new sound. Bird whistles, hammer dulcimer, dustings of electric ...
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