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RootsWorld
2022
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Mike Adcock
2022
"This is music with the feel of jazz, played, unsurprisingly, with a Scandinavian slant: laid back and with plenty of space allowed between the sounds being produced. Two of the tunes are indeed compositions by major jazz figures, Don Cherry and Thelonius Monk, but it it is Dawda Jobarteh's kora which makes this a particularly distinctive recording, not hidebound by adherence to any particular genre. His playing, his improvisation, whilst always at one with the other musicians continues to draw from his own west African traditions".
RootsWorld
2022
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Mike Adcock
2022
"This is music with the feel of jazz, played, unsurprisingly, with a Scandinavian slant: laid back and with plenty of space allowed between the sounds being produced. Two of the tunes are indeed compositions by major jazz figures, Don Cherry and Thelonius Monk, but it it is Dawda Jobarteh's kora which makes this a particularly distinctive recording, not hidebound by adherence to any particular genre. His playing, his improvisation, whilst always at one with the other musicians continues to draw from his own west African traditions".
Songlines
2022 November
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Nigel Williamson
2022 November
"[Jobarteh's] last album, 2022's Soaring Wild Lands, teamed him with a classical string quartet and here his foil is the Norwegian trumpet player Gunnar Halle. It's an inspired pairing and although Halle's better-known countryman, the saxophonist Jan Garbarek, plays a different kind of horn, both men have the same ability to coax an otherworldly sound from the instrument. On tracks such as 'Do You Know a Place Called Flekkerøy?' (inspired by an idyllic Norwegian island) and the sombre 'Winter Trees Standing Sleeping', Halle's trumpet floats hauntingly over Jobarteh's ethereal strings, with the meditative mood only broken on the sprightly 'Togo', on which a balafon adds a more percussive texture".
Songlines
2022 November
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Nigel Williamson
2022 November
"[Jobarteh's] last album, 2022's Soaring Wild Lands, teamed him with a classical string quartet and here his foil is the Norwegian trumpet player Gunnar Halle. It's an inspired pairing and although Halle's better-known countryman, the saxophonist Jan Garbarek, plays a different kind of horn, both men have the same ability to coax an otherworldly sound from the instrument. On tracks such as 'Do You Know a Place Called Flekkerøy?' (inspired by an idyllic Norwegian island) and the sombre 'Winter Trees Standing Sleeping', Halle's trumpet floats hauntingly over Jobarteh's ethereal strings, with the meditative mood only broken on the sprightly 'Togo', on which a balafon adds a more percussive texture".