Beats of Beauty
This is an album I keep coming back to for its instrumental serenity and mesmerizing vocal from Marja Mortensson, a South Saami Norwegian singer. With its percussive pulses and her wordless incantations, the tuba and bass trumpet playing of Herskedal meld to a haunting of melodic threads across all tracks. There is ambient programming as constant backdrop, and the percussion continually drives. Horns take on loops of their sweet melody, and Mortensson punctuates this with startling vocal idiosyncrasies. Gorgeous. With title track A Single Sunbeam, gentle drumming and other rhythmic beats support a solo horn emerging from the quiet to an increasing rise with programmed strings.
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