- Audio CD (1 Mar 2008)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Sbme Special Mkts
- ASIN: B0012GMZKO
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 154,579 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Svensson's trio continues to grow and expand within its original format, as Strange Place for Snow attests. EST's music reminds of the happier days of Keith Jarrett's early (pre-Koln Concert) career. The great enjoyment in the cohesion and interplay between the three musicians is palpable, whether the music is a ballad, a gently rocking piece of updated funk or a straight jazz number. The understanding of each person's role is one of the keys to this music's strong identity: these guys really play for each other, thereby paradoxically freeing themselves to some deliciously inventive music-making. Svensson himself is not a particularly busy improviser, preferring to guide the music rather than garrulously dominate it. Each is given a proper shape: every detail has been thought through, with Ahmad Jamal-like clarity, prior to performance.
Just to show they've not lost their nerve, either, the band five minutes but in fact then has three minutes of silence before ploughing into 10 extra minutes of grinding, guitar-led metal machine music and slow fade. This album will only accelerate the already impressively swift ascent of this trio to international heavyweight status. --Keith Shadwick
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It is widely accepted today that European jazz has developed its own unique vocabulary alongside its Afro-American counterpart, and E.S.T. are an exceptional example. THE ESBJORN SVENSSON TRIO, or E.S.T. as they are known internationally, have taken their musical development several steps further with this release, at the same time retaining the strong link with the Swedish tradition that has become famous in the jazz field. The results are a structually unified album in which the personal sound of the group has become more intense and projects an even greater depth, thus reaching new musical heights. Welcome to E.S.T. country! ESBJORN SVENSSON (piano), DAN BERGLUND (double bass), MAGNUS OSTROM (drums).
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If you thought there wasn't much left to explore in "old style" contemporary jazz then think again for E.S.T.'s "Strange Place for Snow" is exactly what its title suggests - something beautifully familiar in a very different landscape. Working off a standard piano, double bass & drum acoustic line-up and carefully constraining their "explorations" within the well-proven structures that work with it, they conjure up that most difficult of things: something radically new from a conventional format.
With more than a passing nod to Bill Evans' evocatively lilting piano style, backed up by some wonderful bass and drum playing, they mix-in odd electronic hooks and surprisingly powerful melodic structures without losing the laid-back feel of this essentially romantic style of music. Clever?... yes, but not too-clever and, as a result, brilliantly restrained and wholly effective. Another example, alongside Bugge Wesseltoft's and Jaga Jazzist's more avant-garde outings, of the quite extraordinary jazz that is now pouring out of Scandinavia.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Sometime you feel like you dont have more power to continue and everything looks blurry, meaningless. Rarely something comes along and changes the way you look towards life, fills you up, makes everything around you look great, meaningful and clear. This album is that something.
Thanks EST!
40 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I have never listened to a cd so many times in a row!!! the music is nothing like you have ever heard - the closest thing one can relate this to is Radiohead...but for jazz. The albulm opens up with a straight ahead light swing jazz track that is the appetiser for what is to come. the second track employs unorthodox rhythms and use of the bass (being used for the timbral effects as well as establishing a harmony) and Esbjorn is continuously on form with his superlative piano playing. Although they use synthesisers, they are not used as one might expect. they are used for their atmospheric effect that they give to the music, particularly on "behind the yashmak".
But the groups technical abillities really come out on "when God created the coffee break" which is reminiscent of Bach and has a great drive to it. It ends with the hauntingly eerie "carcrash".
This is one of those recordings that the more you listen to it, the more you will notice about a tune and you will notice something different every time!
Also to keep the listener interested, they have added a little something at the end.....
But the groups technical abillities really come out on "when God created the coffee break" which is reminiscent of Bach and has a great drive to it. It ends with the hauntingly eerie "carcrash".
This is one of those recordings that the more you listen to it, the more you will notice about a tune and you will notice something different every time!
Also to keep the listener interested, they have added a little something at the end.....
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