Mirrors Within, by Carsten Dahl Trinity

Mirrors Within

by Carsten Dahl Trinity

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Tracklist:
A1 - The Prayer
A2 - Turning Left
A3 - Old Rag
A4 - Mysterious Room
A5 - A Minor Disgrace
B1 - Coma
B2 - Falling Down Down
B3 - New Rag
B4 - How I Hear Beautiful

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1.	The Prayer 08:34	buy track
2.	Palilalia 06:28	buy track
3.	Turning Left 03:32	buy track
4.	Old Rag 03:44	buy track
5.	Mysterious Room 03:05	buy track
6.	A Minor Disgrace 03:54	buy track
7.	Coma 04:05	buy track
8.	Everything Never Happens To Us 04:13	buy track
9.	Falling Down Down 04:23	buy track
10.	New Rag 06:45	buy track
11.	How I Hear Beautiful 04:51	buy track

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Carsten Dahl is widely considered to be one of the most original and creative pianists coming out of Europe. He has received several awards like the Ben Webster Award, the Django D’Or, the Carl Nielsen Prize and several Danish Music Award Jazz. With a huge audience in Scandinavia he is now conquering the rest of Europe. Now he’s ready with a follow-up to the highly acclaimed “Painting Music” released on ACT Music.

On "Mirrors Within", Dahl and his bandmates, Stefan Pasborg (drums) and Nils Bo Davidsen (bass), explores total improvisation. All the recordings were made without talking in the studio and with no prior previous agreements or ideas, except two tracks based on rough sketches ('Falling Down Down' and 'How I Hear Beautiful'). That the result sounds so good and cohesive is a testament to the level of musicianship and connection between the three.

‘When we enter the room together, we compose instantly’, Dahl says. ‘We are playing composers. We are very close to the ability of creation. This recording is the essence of what creation is about in an improvisatory context.’

It´s spontaneous and straightforward just like the brush strokes by Dahl seen on the album cover. But it´s not random what goes on. The trio establish a sonic architecture as clear and vivid as a mountain source.

'To me “Mirrors Within” is the picture of the collective and the universal’, Dahl says. ‘In the music we mirror ourselves in one another. But the mirror can also break and behind it is black’. Hereby he insinuates the both bright and dark sides of his own artist life. He has spoken in public about trauma, therapy and medicine. Music, painting and poetry are his creative responses.

A superb and super creative release from Denmark’s most important pianist – here he shows us why he’s always considered to be cutting edge.

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released December 8, 2020

Carsten Dahl (piano)
Stefan Pasborg (drums)
Nils Bosse Davidsen (bass)

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