Jon Balke: Diverted Travels (CD)

Jon Balke (geb. 1955)

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Label:: ECM
Year of recording ca.:: 2003
UPC/EAN:: 0602498187913
Release date:: 30.8.2004

+ Magnetic North Orchestra

“Diverted Travels”, the third ECM album by the pan-Scandinavian Magnetic North Orchestra, extends the radius of the work already documented on “Further” (recorded 1993) and “Kyanos” (recorded 2001) and confirms once again that Jon Balke is one of the most unique writer-arrangers in contemporary jazz. “Diverted Travels” features a radically revised line-up – only the leader and trumpeter Per Jørgensen remain from the original band, but the music, which continues to move in mysterious ways, with ever-arresting harmonic variety and textural differentiation, and a delicate equilibrium between the composed and the free, is unmistakably Balke’s.

Reviews

S. Thielmann in stereoplay 12/04: "Delikate Trompeten- klänge, filigrane Klavierläufe, irisierende Streicher und subtile Rhythmen: Mit seinem fast komplett neu formierten Magnetic North Orchestra breitet Keyboarder Jon Balke auf "Diverted Travels" wieder ein Klangpanorama von ganz eigener Schönheit aus. Skandinavische Impressionen ver- weben sich hier mit moderner Kammermusik und orientali- schen Einflüssen." R. Köchl in Jazzthing 11/04 - 1/05: "Jon Balke hat sich gewaltlos die alte, klassische Musik erschlossen und da- mit seinen minimalistischen Klangkosmos in ein völlig neues Licht gerückt."