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Fjall: Helt

by John Sharpe
August 3, 2026

Helt finds Fjall refining its communal language into long-form sonic terrains shaped by timbre, patience and mutual purpose. The double album documents complete performances from December 2023 and April 2025, preserving the quartet unchanged from its debut, From the Rough Hill (Discus, 2023). Reed player and keyboardist Martin Archer joins percussionists Richard Jackson and Fran Comyn alongside harpist Jan Todd, whose contributions also encompass voice, electronics and samples. The breadth of instrumentation points to an unusually expansive vocabulary, in which ...