The stately melancholic nature of the pieces is well captured by the duo; but where they bring their own stamp is in the way they draw what is essentially indoor music evoking gowned ladies and bewigged gents moving in graceful arcs out into the open, lending it an air of dust and yearning...
Geir Sundstøl
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...an album of languorous drifting beauty that follows the folds of rivers and the pale glint of sunlight on sleepy backwaters in a series of ten surprisingly diverse and meditative musical mantras.
The list of instruments on guitarist Geir Sundstol's sixth album for Hubro is as long as both my arms. This inventive selection of widescreen soundscapes utilises all manner of guitar-adjacent instruments and straddles an interesting space between Ry Cooder-esque introspection, Ennio Morricone-like sweeps and Eastern tonal influence.