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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

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