Trailing on the shirt tails of last year's lathe-cut seven inch Afterlife EP comes a whole album's worth that doesn’t disappoint. Pleasantly parading around the head like the cover of an unread novel that fertilizes the imagination before you’ve even taken in a single word, The Afterlife’s treacly glow sticks to you in chorused warmth and glittery keystrokes, the occasional word-form whirling its architecture like an intoxicated hex.
Daily archives: 26/02/2024
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Danish pianist Jacob Anderskov has many albums and collaborations under his belt; but on his latest, he has chosen, along with a small group of friends, to shine a light on an under-appreciated art form, that of højskolesangbogen. This is a form of nineteenth century folk music, incorporating hymns and singalongs that is very much part of Danish cultural identity. As with a lot of these forms of northern European folk music, they are tied to a certain time and Jacob has chosen this album to drag it into the twenty-first century, taking a detour through some twentieth century jazz motifs.