
PAUL JARRET
guitarist & composer


Hemisfär/Hémisphère
Karin Johansson - piano
Donovan Von Martens - bass
Paul Jarret - guitar




ALBUM REVIEWS :
Albums en Ribambelle #31 - décembre 2024
/Thierry Giard, Culture Jazz
https://culturejazz.fr/spip.php?article4278
"...recommendations for your audio delight.”
/Dave Foxall, A Jazz Noise
https://www.facebook.com/ajazznoise
"A nexus of knotted sound in a web of suspended silences…”
/Dave Foxall, A Jazz Noise - Daily Tune #2679
https://www.facebook.com/ajazznoise
"Hémisphère / Hemisfär suggests the impressive and commanding work of three musicians, each one with his idiosyncratic musical language, who are fully immersed in the exquisite art of the moment.” /Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts
https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/paul-jarret-karin-johansson-donovan-von-martens/
"...der musikalische Raum unendlich ist..."
https://www.jazz-fun.de/paul-jarret-karin-johansson-donovan-von-martens-hemisphere-hemisfaer.html
/Jacek Brun, Jazz-fun.de
"Their music takes over the space and time in which you hear it in a manner that Satie would have adored.” "One might even say that their evocative music momentarily fuses our two brain hemispheres together rather seamlessly. In fact, I just did.”/Donald Brackett, Embodied Meanings
https://donaldbrackett.substack.com/p/time-transfixed-ba7
/Donald Brackett, Critics At Large
https://www.criticsatlarge.ca/2025/01/time-transfixed-momentary-music-of.html#more
"Mästerligt. Och väldigt egensinnigt.”
/Thomas Millroth, Orkesterjournalen nr 6 - 2024
https://orkesterjournalen.com/
"Cette Hémisphère est surtout une suite d’atmosphères…"
"Un jazz singulier et pointu mais aussi terriblement réjouissant, à découvrir les oreilles grandes ouvertes.”
/Jacques Lerognon, Polar jazz&blues
https://polarjazzblues.wordpress.com/2024/12/27/hemisphere-hemisfar/
"...una combinazione di varie teorie, filtrate con la luce scandinava. Free, astratto con nuovi linguaggi.”
/Giuseppe Maggioli, Windout
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61568530487899
Europe Jazz Media Chart - January 2025:
https://www.europejazz.net/europe-jazz-media-chart-january-2025
"...un hymne aux jeux d’ombres et de lumières. La possible bande sonore d’un film oublié de Bergman…" /Eric Therer, JazzMania
https://jazzmania.be/paul-jarret-karin-johansson-donovan-von-martens-hemisphere-hemisfar/
Featured in Polish radio JAZZKULTURA by Krzysztof Komorek.
Listen to a track from Hémisphère/Hemisfär at 51:42, La murmuration des oiseaux:
https://www.mixcloud.com/.../krzysztof-komorek-co-w…/
"...a real improvised delicacy.”
/Andrzej Nowak, Trybuna Muzyki Spontanicznej
https://spontaneousmusictribune.blogspot.com/2025/02
"Helande och trösterik musik som inte fegar ur."
/Leif Carlsson, LIRA
https://www.lira.se/skivrecension/hemisphere-hemisfar/
Hémisphère/Hemisfär is nominated for Orkesterjournalen's "Golden Record”.
https://orkesterjournalen.com/gyllene-skivan-2024/
"...each of the album's 13 acoustic tracks is full of interest."
"A varied and richly rewarding release."
/Andy Hamilton, The Wire
April 2025, https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/120471/page/66