Label: Black Sweat Records

Black Sweatらしい不思議な感触の実験フォルクローレ!!スコットランド出身のシンガーソングライター兼マルチ・インストゥルメンタリストJames Yorkston、秀逸なフィンガーピッキング・タッチを持つイギリスのギタリストDavid A. Jaycock、実験フォーク・アンサンブル"Big Eyes Family Players"の初期より活動を共にして来た二者。そこにスウェーデン出身のサックス奏者Lina Langendorfが加わり実現した、室内楽の前衛表現とネオフォークを融合させた新録LP。北方民族のフォークロア、地中海、またアラベスクからのアルペジオを導入、ストレンジなエレクトロニクス加工にて詩的でありながらも程よい抽象性が漂う6曲を展開。







The scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist James Yorkston and the english guitarist with a fluid fingerpicking touch, David A. Jaycock, already played together in the first formation of the experimental folk ensemble Big Eyes Family Players. Their encounter with Swedish saxophonist Lina Langendorf gives rise to a little gem of pure acoustic candour, perfectly balanced between chamber avant-garde and neo-folk. As on an endless autumn evening in front of a lake in Finland or Estonia, the trio's nordic soul creates atmospheres that recall hidden nostalgia. In a process of rarefied sound matter, elegiac paintings spring up, moments that flow slowly and silently in a tension that is always suspended and unresolved. Soft, crepuscular passages, at times sharp and cold guitar, but also the velvety breath of the nickelharpa, combine with a saxophone that still blows dramas of distant Norwegian fjords, but can also become more Mediterranean and arabesque. The music becomes like a warm warmth around the fire, reflecting a hidden twilight zone of the soul, in a quiet, gentle whisper between poetic abstraction and arpeggiated themes of more recognisable narrative melody, typical of a certain Northern folklore.