Tord Gustavsen Trio - The Ground
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Free Music Review: Fabulous
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an amazing CD and I would highly recommend. Perfect, relaxing, lovely music.Free Music Review: Early Chico Hamilton: Easy to be around
Hit: 5 Stars
If you love early Chico records, you will love this. It is restrained, sparse and thoughtful. The Ground is soothing yet interesting music-seamlessly blending in at a dinner party, while standing alone as a singular experience--an hour well spent.
It's hard to find music like this-true and consistent throughout the entire record.
Free Music Review: Astrological stars
Hit: 5 Stars
Other reviewers have articulated appreciation for TG (and the trio)'s work so well. Thank you. This music is soothing, healing and enlightening - simultaneously familiar yet unique. I'll just add for those of an astrological bent that I found it interesting that astrology seems to support TG's aesthetic: with Venus (planet associated with one's sense of beauty and harmony)conjunct Neptune (higher transpersonal octave of Venus) in Scorpio (music as eroticism per TG's words) opposite Saturn (planet associated with ascetic discipline and essential structure of self) in Taurus (a sign associated with music, particularly the voice - metaphor for TG's spare while melodic sensibility). This is certainly an incomplete reading, but an interesting metaphor for the taut balance TG achieves between a freely sensuous, personal, upclose feeling and an austere spacious sensibility.
Free Music Review: find of a lifetime
Hit: 5 Stars
Is it possible that there are other musicians one doesn't know about that are of the importance of Tord G? I shudder to think so, because to think one is missing seminal talents like this guy is unnerving. Is it possible never to hit a wrong note? To never have a lapse of taste or originality? To never play anything remotely cliched? The word unique is thrown around but TG is a close to unique as I've ever heard. No one sounds like him. I've got all three CDs and play them constantly. Saw him in person once and would seriously consider traveling long distnces to see him again. He's absolutely unafraid of space and silence -- so disciplined. As a writer of music he's already at the highest level. I can't begin to imagine his sound in ten years. Free Music Review: Music that draws you in
Hit: 5 Stars
Pianist Tord Gustavsen and his partners Harald Johnsen (bass) and Jarle Vespestad (drums) have staked out their own distinctive piece of ground in a land that straddles the borders between jazz, church music and conservatoire music. The Ground explores in more depth the territory that was first plotted out in the trio's first release, "Changing Places".
The Ground is a gorgeous set of pieces, some more churchy (The Ground), some more funky (Curtains Aside) and some more lyrical (Tears Transforming) but all played with warmth and faithful attention to the quality of touch as well as the quality of sound. And the loving attention the guys pay to what they're playing induces the same response in their audience. At a recent concert, I have never felt an audience pay such rapt attention. As my piano teacher (a performing harpsichordist) remarked, it's music that really draws you in.
All of the pieces have a clear melody, theme or riff that you can hum after a couple of listens. All are reflective, none is busy or challenging in a "pushing the boundaries" kind of way. A casual listener might even praise (or condemn) the whole thing as "easy listening", because it's certainly not hard. Yet it all challenges the listener to forget labels, comparisons and other mental fidgets, and to just open up and listen to the sounds unfold. There's a depth of beauty in here that I've found in few other places.
An easy comparison would be Keith Jarrett - easy but misleading. Tord Gustavsen is much closer in spirit to the majestic Abdullah Ibrahim.