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Reviews: Lars Danielsson: Libera Me

Reviews: 3

Review by DeSelby February 27, 2005 (0 of 7 found this review helpful)
Sonics:
stereo sonics: jazz/classic crossover; good, clear sound

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Review by plu May 31, 2005 (5 of 5 found this review helpful)
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Lars Danielsson is a very talented bassist and with him on this album are also several great players such as Carsten Dahl and Nils Petter Molvaer. Generally, this album is a crossover between jazz and classical music. Lars has managed to marry slow jazz with classical music into music that sounds very natural. The music is generally slow in pace which gives Lars opportunity to show his gentle style of playing bass. He has a great feel when he performs solos.

Danish jazz vocalist Cæcilie Norby (wife/girlfriend of Lars Danielsson) is also singing on the track "Newborn Broken". This version is far better then the one she does on one of her albums.

Other recommended songs are Lars interpetation of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now". You can almost hear the lyrics in the song as Lars plays the bass. Other recommended songs are "Suffering" and "Shimmering". Both these two songs show the feel that Lars has when it comes to both performing solo and playing the melody.

The sound quality of this album is very good (only stereo is reviewed). The sound is clear and crisp with very good depth and dynamics. This album is also a DSD recording and that doesn't normally turn us SACD fans down.

I do recommend this album to anybody who is interested into hearing a nice joint venture between jazz and classical music together with a very good sound quality.

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Review by Barb October 18, 2007 (2 of 2 found this review helpful)
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L. Danielsson b & cello & p & g, J. Christensen dr & perc, N. P. Molvaer trp, X. D. Navarre perc, D. Liebman ss, A. Kjellberg cymbals, J. Bang samples, C. Dahl p, T. Sjögren g, C. Norby vcl, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, ACT 2004.
There are so many Skandinavians making great jazz and there is so much top music in the program of the ACT label. Why they exactly chose this rather boring orchestra-jazz recording to make an SACD out of will stay a secret of their own. The music is of the solemn, slow, intellectual no-fun kind. But may be there are friends of classic-jazz fusion, who like this kind of music. The only highlight is Molvaer`s trumpet on a few tracks.
The sound is very good, a bit to the lean side but rich of colour, very good soundstage and imaging, air for the instruments to breath, dynamic.

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