Mikkelborg / Knudsen / N.H.Ø.P. - Heart To Heart mp3 download

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A surreal jazz voyage thru ethereal atmospheres and a grey area that crosses the jazz and ambient music crossroads. This is not in anyway a jazz recording in any traditional sense but then again Mikkelborg and Knudsen have paid their dues with Miles Davis and the great music they cut in the 1960s and 1970s. What you get here is a trio of keys, horn and bass. Kenneth is a musical chemist mixing piano and synthesizers into a emotional glossolalia supported by Palle's penchant for channeling a Miles Davis like tone out of his horn. Neils Orsted Pedersen has double duties holding down the rhythm section since the trio purposely edited the drummer from the recording, by this I mean the sound is more sparse due to the lack of a kit drummer but nonetheless still carries its own weight.This is really a re-release of the 1984 album Heart to Heart and worth checking out if you like jazz taken out of the purely fusion and traditional setting tho there are hints of fusion is tone is notched down a few decibels. The music is nevertheless haunting with a European sense of sophistication and dedication to melody and harmony as a strong foundation to the compositions. On a last note the re-working of John Lennon's Imagine is one of the standout tracks on this gem!