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Henrik Olsson: Hand of Benediction
by Glenn Astarita
This is the trio's debut recording led by cagey and inventive Swedish guitarist Henrik Olsson for a set that resides in an opaque realm, containing dabs of free jazz, punk jazz and avant-garde rock. The agile and limber trio ventures through some enigmatic musical territory via tight unison phrasings, multipart progressions, animated and linear uprisings along with crunching rock riffs and fleeting nods to classic jazz fusion. Shocking method restores lost hair" sounds like a séance with ...
read more”The album is a rollercaster of sounds. At times intense and noisy and other times dreamy and ethereal... It is a surrealist vision ...a deeply personal expression of avantgarde-rock, jazz, world music and poetic soundscapes " - Jakob Baekgaard, All About Jazz
"One can only at the warmest recommend this dreamlike dive somewhere between sweet melancholy, jazzy wit and raw expressivity” Tim Walter, NMZ Magazine
"A kind of musical metamorphosis, from which abstract sound textures arises that, sometimes are noisy, or becomes an authentic deja vu melodically and harmonically. A work of compositional freedom, an original concept that is worth knowing” Ana Isabel Palha Rodrigues, Punch Magazine
Primary Instrument
Guitar, electric
Location
Copenhagen