Restored, Returned Tord Gustavsen Ensemble
Album info
Album-Release:
2009
HRA-Release:
18.01.2011
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- 1 The Child Within 03:51
- 2 Way In 04:29
- 3 Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love 02:55
- 4 Spiral Song 04:06
- 5 Restored, Returned 05:58
- 6 Left Over Lullaby No. 2 04:47
- 7 The Swirl / Wrapped In A Yielding Air 05:27
- 8 Left Over Lullaby No. 1 / O Stand, Stand At The Window 07:20
- 9 Your Crooked Heart 03:45
- 10 The Gaze 05:43
- 11 Left Over Lullaby No. 3 03:04
Info for Restored, Returned
Gustavsen's earlier albums have been for a low-lights piano trio, but this is a quartet set featuring the excellent Jan Garbarek-inspired saxophonist Tore Brunborg, plus guest appearances from singer Kristin Asbjørnsen. Brunborg, though wistfully Garbarek-like on soprano at the opening, is rougher and less ethereal than his model - closer even to Wayne Shorter's enigmatic jazziness on The Gaze. His powerful role makes Gustavsen's piano mainly supportive until halfway through, when the leader blossoms out on Left Over Lullaby No 1. Kristin Asbjørnsen's voice - banshee-like on high notes, but as raspingly bluesy as Carol Grimes on occasion - is always arresting, whether on free improv, floating lullabies or incantations of WH Auden poems. For those who felt Gustavsen's work was a bit pallid, here's the remedy. (John Fordham)
Digitally remastered from the original analog tapes
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Booklet for Restored, Returned