Taranczewski - LOM (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

LOM, the second album by the Taranczewski trio featuring pianist Olaf Taranczewski, bassist Jean-Philippe Wadle, and drummer Benedikt Stehle, stands in immediate relation to its remarkable predecessor "When I Was." Because in every aspect, LOM is the antithesis of "When I Was," conceptually, in terms of playfulness, mood, and sound. Yet, the trio does not diminish its debut in any way, but rather – on the contrary – remains unmistakably recognizable with its signature and impressively rounds off its spectrum.

LOM is a collection of descriptions of states whose proximity to Scandinavian jazz is unmistakable. Olaf Taranczewski himself has lived in Sweden for some time and is well acquainted with the music of Esbjörn Svensson, to whom a song on the album is dedicated, as well as the pioneer of Swedish jazz, Jan Johansson.

Lom is a place in Norway that inspired the three musicians to pay homage to the nature of the northern expanses. Taranczewski, Wadle, and Stehle create musical landscapes that transport the listener into a world of peace and longing. While this unfulfilled desire focused on the past in "When I Was," this time it is more directed towards perfection in the distance. Thus, soundscapes of hypnotic intensity are created, allowing us to participate in the unshakable slowness of the universal world cycles. The three landscape painters are in no hurry at all to create and let their images fade away. Taranczewski, Wadle, and Stehle prove to be skilled masters of omission, and often it seems as if the silence would complete the three sound artists as a creative partner to the quartet.

LOM is nothing less than a utopia. With their second album, Taranczewski provide the soundtrack to the urban need for deceleration and find much more attention than one would expect from a trio of piano, bass, and drums. Their plays on the web already reach millions. With LOM, they now present the foundational work of a long-overdue philosophy of sound, the scope of which is not yet foreseeable.

Tracklist:
01. Sherpa
02. Spring
03. All That Land
04. We Have Time
05. The Spaces Between Us
06. Maurice
07. Esbjörn
08. Sunflower Dream
09. LOM
10. Darkest Before Dawn


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