Júlia Karosi & Kristjan Randalu – INNER VOICE (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:46 minutes | 518 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © XJAZZ! Music
The new album, Inner Voice, contains a versatile and colorful repertoire. It contains original compositions (with and without lyrics), contemporary jazz compositions, folk song arrangements, and classical adaptations. The diversity of the repertoire is combined with an intimate sound.
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Kristjan Randalu – Schumann: Dichterliebe (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:25 minutes | 843 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
Kristjan Randalu releases a newly arranged piano version of Robert Schumanns famous song cycle “Dichterliebe”. As a jazz and crossover pianist he has put is own fingerprint on the pieces, improvising here and there and presenting the well-known melodies in an unheard of jazzy style.
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Kristjan Randalu, Lukas Traxel, Olivier Le Goas – Sunland (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:56 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Double Moon Records
French drummer Olivier le Goas is one of the most active musicians in his country. He has had his own bands for 35 years and has also played with pianist Bojan Zulfikarpasic, pianist Laurent Cogny’s big band, bassist Jean-François Jenny-Clark, pianists Benoit Delbecq and Jean-Michel Pilc, trumpeters Kenny Wheeler, Avishai Cohen and Charles Tolliver and guitarist Ben Monder. His own bands have featured such illustrious musicians as John Abercrombie, Ralph Alessi, Drew Gress, Manu Codjia, Nir Felder, Kevin Hays, John Escreet and Larry Grenadier. Now he is presenting a new trio on “Sunland”, which includes bassist Lukas Traxel and pianist Kristjan Randalu.
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Kristjan Randalu, Ben Monder, Markku Ounaskari – Absence (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 48:10 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
For his debut on the ECM label, Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu surrounded himself with American guitarist Ben Monder and Finnish drummer Markku Ounaskari. A combination suggested by Manfred Eicher, the producer of this album recorded at La Buissonne in the summer of 2017. Absence is first and foremost a beautiful introduction to the ample and rather lyrical style of play of the musician who says he’s been most influenced by his fellow countrymen and composers Erkki-Sven Tüür and Tõnu Kõrvits. A former student of John Taylor and Django Bates, Randalu studied classical music for a long time before turning his attention to jazz. A knowledge that transpires in his piano as well as his writing. His impressive technique and the narrative power of his improvisations give his musical universe a multitude of colours. A palette that Ben Monder – a very much-underrated guitarist – and Markku Ounaskari take hold of in unison.
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