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DoYeon Kim: Wellspring
Il risultato è un album fresco e originale in cui la componente etnica, largamente attesa, rimane tutto sommato abbastanza in quinta, sposando il quartetto in primis un incedere caracollante, molto libero, aperto ad interferenze reciproche sciorinate via via che la musica procede, privilegiando sonorità (e atmosfere globali) non propriamente flessuose o carezzevoli. Sono semmai i momenti in cui la musicista coreana, autrice di tutti i brani in programma, si misura con la voce quelli in cui affiora più nitidamente la componente folklorico-orientaleggiante, attraverso un canto evocativo e vagamente cantilenante (non sempre) che dà l'esatta misura di tutta la storia che gli sta alle spalle.
Col trascorrere dei brani la musica si fa più magmatica, intricata, nebulosa, a tratti anche lievemente confusa, involuta, giungendo peraltro a fissare nel conclusivo "Calculus of Our Souls" uno dei vertici del lavoro, diremmo con "The Beats of Distant Thunder," "Whispers Among Dawn" e "Diffraction."
Disco, a bocce ferme, senz'altro istruttivo e di sicuro valore.
Track Listing
The Beats of Distant Thunder; Walking in the Dream; Whispers Among Dawn; Sun Shower; Diffraction; Linear System; Calculus of Our Souls.
Personnel
Additional Instrumentation
DoYeon Kim: voice.
Album information
Title: Wellspring | Year Released: 2026 | Record Label: Tao Forms
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