Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0614427901828
Label: Act
Manufacturer: Act
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Act
Release Date: September 01, 2008
Studio: Act

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Disc 1:

1. Decade
2. Premonition (Earth)
3. Premonition (Contorted)
4. Jazz
5. Still
6. Ajar
7. Leucocyte (Ad Initio)
8. Leucocyte (Ad Interim)
9. Leuccyte (Ad Mortem)
10. Leucocyte (Ad Infinitum)

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Rating: - A CD of two halfs
If this were on vinyl, I would never feel the need to play side 2 again - the last 5 or 6 tracks were obviously a challenge for the band to play and record, and are seriously challenging to listen to. I won't return to them anytime soon.

However, the opening tracks (particularly the extended track 'Premonition') are delightful improvisations that rank among ESTs best work, which would be enjoyed by fans of their previous recordings.

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Rating: - EST - the last post
Just magnificent! A wonderful tribute to the work of a trio who pushed the boundaries of jazz. A wall of sound for the 21st century.

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Rating: - A new era stopped abruptly
And to think I was getting a bit worried after the repetition and creative stagnation of the more pop oriented "Viaticum" and "Tuesday Wonderland". Thank God , this is a brilliant work and was definately going to lead the most important piano trio , into new uncharted territory , where different styles ,various influences would blend the future with the bop tradition into a new language . A legacy indeed and one of the most important jazz records of our times.

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Rating: - A Masterpiece
Sometimes it is necessary for musicians to push the boat out as on this album. Its radically different from anything est have done before and unfortunately and sadly will never be doing again. However, what a legacy. To me its a mixture of jazz and heavy rock with some abstract electronica throuwn in. The rhythms are powerful, dark and foreboding, yet the piano soars above the nocturnal bass and drums whether creating passages of melody or simple repetitive intonations. There are extraordinarily ... Read More

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Rating: - Creative musicians at work.......
How should we think of this album? It's clearly impossible for us now to see it outside the context of the band's last release before the untimely death of Esbjorn Svensson. However, it must also be clear that the band themselves weren't thinking of it in anything like that context when they recorded it. Is there anything here that we haven't heard them do before? My personal view is that I don't think so. It's just that there's more of some of the things they're good at and less of some of the others, ... Read More

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