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Mar 24, 2011While there are moments where En Form for Bla (named for the Oslo club where it was recorded) rolls right over you like a rogue wave, more often it sounds like the main action was situated a couple rooms away from the microphones.
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UncutFeb 18, 2011Abstract, but curiously engaging. [Mar 2011, p.83]
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Feb 17, 2011This is meditative, spacious, profoundly dark music, evidently haunted by Miles Davis's early-1970s excursions into free electronica, as well as the wolves of the Nordic imagination.
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Feb 17, 2011Unique: rarely meant, but here the only possible description for the sounds these four remarkable players emit.
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Feb 17, 2011En Form For Bla is a record where it's tempting and possible to zone out of and forget that you're even listening, let alone any specifics of sound.
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Feb 17, 2011En Form for Bla feels of its own space and location rather than simply an addendum.
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MojoApr 6, 2011Uneasy listening at its ghost-in-the-machine best. [Apr 2011, p.104]
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The WireMar 1, 2011This is crystalline and intoxicating: an album to return to repeatedly for inspiration. [Feb 2011, p.48]