Just burned and listened to my first Esbjorn Svensson CD Good morning soho at first I was not keen but by the end of the CD I was thoroughly enjoying it.
Some observations
Track 4. The Wraith, a sound of running water, what instrument was used for this? You can get some thing like that on the Bass but never that realistic! Was it a synthasiser?
The CD was d/l mp3@320k but was good enough for jazz the double bass sounded great and he is a very good player Dan Burgland but the musical construction of some pieces was not IMHO worthy of the musicians being a conglomeration of short phrases and weird sound effects why??? There are so many good tunes around that they could improvise around, I am tempted to say (its jazz but not as we know it) but I wont . T10 The face of love was built on basic rhythms and riffs with the Bongos and I loved it. T11 Reminiscence of a soul was excellent very complicated meters from the percussion which included 6/8 4/4 7/8
I finished up a convert to this Trio and cant wait to listen to the 2nd CD Viaticum