Paul Jarret – guitar
Jim Black – drums
Jozef Dumoulin – fender Rhodes & bass synth
Julien Pontvianne – tenor saxophone
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Produced by Paul Jarret and Pégazz & L’Hélicon
Recorded on 7th and 8th of March 2021 by Erwan Boulay at Sextan Studios, assisted by Arthur Gouret, Loïs Burnouf and Aurélien Bourgeois
Mixed by Erwan Boulay at Libretto Studios in March 2021
Mastered by Philipp Heck at Bauer Studios in March 2021
Drawings by Laure Van Minden
Design by Steve Byram
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Jim Black plays Sonor drums, Vic Firth Sticks, and UFIP cymbals
Ghost Songs is a project started as part of the Talent Adami Jazz operation.
All compositions by Paul Jarret, except Specters #1, #2 and #3 by Paul Jarret, Jim Black, Jozef Dumoulin and Julien Pontvianne
Listening to Unclosing is captivating. I'm never sure what kind of sound will come next, only that it will be precise and I'll hear it with clarity. Crooked Frame is a prime example of how Illegal Crowns punctuate songs with peculiar, unexpected sounds, but it is only one way they are able to do it. The rest of the album ebbs and mostly flows, even with alternating songwriters from track to track. At times though, I wish that what sounds like musical tinkering would break more into a song. rvss.eel
Mary Halvorson is a genius composer and guitarist who has developed her own musical language, and with Code Girl she has incorporated poetry into that language. Incredible compositions and lyricism (each track is a different kind of poem). Halvorson's playing is as great as usual, and all the other members of the band sound great. Robert Wyatt's singing in particular works extremely well in the tracks he's featured. Highly, highly recommend. rat
After a precision liftoff in Tabasco and setting a course to travel the space ways from planet to planet, the album peels away through a wormhole just past Saturn in the eponymous track Mayan Space Station to journey through time and space in Canyons of Light. eric F