Andi ChorleyEnded the week and started the weekend with Isabela by Oded Tzur released in 2022 on ECM Records.
Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:
"...From the threads of “Invocation,” the quartet sews the binding of its thematic pages in “Noam,” which speaks through melodies that roll off the soul’s tongue. In “The Lion Turtle,” Blake taps the edges of his kit like someone testing the shell of an egg for vulnerabilities (and finding none). Klampanis’s solo feels like an extension of Hershkovits’s (and vice versa). Suggestions of alternate realities fade as quickly as they appear. Tzur’s unraveling is profundity incarnate, gracing the inner circle of every chord change as the tongue might move a morsel around the mouth for proper chewing. The result is more than a conversation; it’s an interactive prayer..."
https://ecmreviews.com/2022/06/30/oded-tzur-isabela-ecm-2739/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI-8tcyMnGk&list=PLZ-z7_gxM585BI5SH1uDOhsRjTIK3VZbh&index=1
