Title: Hard to listen to.
Review: I was very excited to own this album knowing that this was a jazztronica album from one of the ECM masters. After struggling to listen to this album several times I have to say Molvaer would do better to stick to the more straight ahead, or perhaps find another producer for such outings.The electronic textures and ambience are fine, and the playing is nothing less than you would expect. Really it's just the beats that make this album unlistenable to me. Extremely cheesy and extremely cliche. My friend commented to me that it reminds him of a 90's movie soundtrack. I think that's about right.Molvaer is a great player, but he's a bit out of touch with some of the genres he was hoping to capture on this record.For jazztronica I would go with Dave Douglas' "Freak In" or the aforementioned E.S.T.
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