Musho
Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg
Sometimes Musho soars, sometimes it's contemplative; by turns crystalline and dense, it feels like a very personal project for the outrageously prolific Hawkins, one of the best things he's...
Musho
Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg
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Sometimes Musho soars, sometimes it's contemplative; by turns crystalline and dense, it feels like a very personal project for the outrageously prolific Hawkins, one of the best things he's...
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Sofia Jernberg and Alexander Hawkins are among the most multifaceted and expressive musical personalities with a surprising radius of action. Swedish singer Sofia Jernberg explores the boundaries of vocal technique in a variety of creative contexts, ranging from Schonberg's Pierrot Lunaire to Mats Gustafsson's Fire! Orchestra. Alexander Hawkins is often described as unrivaled in modern creative music and is considered one of its most innovative and imaginative pianists and composers. In the duo, traditional songs from Ethiopia, Armenia, Sweden and elsewhere become the starting point for the development of an exciting and very personal sound world. David Toop writes in the liner notes: "Where is home, where is return for the scattered? Soft and crystalline, a music of edges, silence and tangential shoots, Musho dwells in these questions, invites the listener to consider displacement, migration, identity, responsibility, bloody history, the seepage of culture and community, but more than that, invites listening." Musho is predictably a fantastic work of contemporary music.
Contents and tracklist
- Alexander Hawkins (piano), Sofia Jernberg (singer)
- Alexander Hawkins (piano), Sofia Jernberg (singer)
- Alexander Hawkins (piano), Sofia Jernberg (singer)
- Alexander Hawkins (piano), Sofia Jernberg (singer)
- Alexander Hawkins (piano), Sofia Jernberg (singer)
- Alexander Hawkins (piano), Sofia Jernberg (singer)
- Alexander Hawkins (piano), Sofia Jernberg (singer)
- Alexander Hawkins (piano), Sofia Jernberg (singer)
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Awards and reviews
June 2024
Sometimes Musho soars, sometimes it's contemplative; by turns crystalline and dense, it feels like a very personal project for the outrageously prolific Hawkins, one of the best things he's ever involved himself with. More than most albums you'll hear this year, it gets better and better, revealing new textures and layers of meaning with every listen.