Album Review: Landscape from Dimitri Monstein Ensemble
Album: Landscape Artist: Dimitri Monstein Ensemble Label: Unit Records/Vertrieb UNIT/Membran Websites: https://www.dimitri-monstein.com/bio.html https://www.monstein-ensemble.ch/about.html https://dimitrimonsteinensemble.bandcamp.com/releases Classical music meets jazz-inspired musings on Landscape from the Dimitri Monstein Ensemble led by drummer-composer Dimitri Monstein. Track after track is special, tailored to a unique tale as the instrumental phrases roll in a fluid motion. Every space on the melodic canvass is occupied by notes as they spread, layer and jump out at the listener, blazing a wide array of sensations that stimulate its receivers. The scattered musings of the strings coursing waves along "Walkin' in the Dirt" have an uplifting resonance, monogramming reflective expressions that turn to clasical musings through "Mr. Winter," tangling and branching out, sprouting in different directions from the fulcrum. Staying on the course o...