Pianist Yelena Eckemoff has always been comfortable thinking and composing outside the box. In fact, I am sure there is no box, only Echemoff’s free expression as a fusion between the musical and temporal worlds to achieve a spiritual one. Nocturnal Animals focuses on the living existence of animals that exist by night. The composer employs a standard jazz piano trio augmented with an additional drummer (Jon Christensen and Thomas Thomas Stronen). Tactile and time worthy, the drums provide the rhythm and tempo of life, from quiet rumination to frenetic scurrying. It does not take too much imagination to hear the life in the percussion. That leaves the pianist with bassist Arild Andersen with whom she shares much creative empathy to work the details out. Listen and imagine the lives of the bat, fox, and walkingstick defined through music.
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