Whispering Pages cover

Whispering Pages

Released

On her second solo album, pianist Vikki Jackman calls on the support of friends Andrew Chalk, and Daisuke and Naoko Suzuki – the line-up of Ghosts On Water, basically – to help shade in these gorgeous miniatures for piano. There’s a deft sense for timing and placement of notes here, with Jackman’s playing suggesting a hallucination of ‘Satie does Feldman’, or perhaps vice versa. When denuded, the music here is becalmed; when Chalk and the Suzukis join in, they mottle the surface of the recording tape with spectral field recordings, quiet glitchy electronics, and dewdrop webs of reverb. It’s prepossessingly lovely.

Jon Dale

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