Progressive guitarists Jon Durant of the USA and Robert Jürjendal of Estonia team up for an international meeting of the musical minds that results in a first-rate work of ambient new age jazz fusion.
Rather than perpetrate a full-frontal assault with a preponderance of notes, Durant and Jürjendal instead conjure impressionistic and evocative sonic images that take listeners on an imaginative itinerary of immersive sounds.
Heavily processed guitar signals create an all-enveloping canopy
of lush, ethereal tones that feature flourishes of luminescent leads, harmonic
hooks, and entrancing rhythms.
Adding to the eclectic and expansive sound mix are choice
seasonings of bass by Colin Edwin of the UK, trumpet by Aleksei Saks of Estonia,
and percussion by Andi Pupato of Switzerland, giving the music more of an
international flavor.
The album is very reminiscent of Andy Summers and Robert Fripp’s early 1980s albums I Advanced Masked and Bewitched, as well as Summers’ 2015 solo album Metal Dog. There are elements of Allan Holdsworth throughout as well.
This is a transformative and rewarding musical journey worth taking.
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