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Some records are like faded photographs: beautifully composed, lovingly framed, yet somehow unable to bring the past back to life. Such is the feeling that drifts from the latest album by Champian Fulton and Klas Lindquist a collection shaped with care, played with grace, but haunted by a strange absence.
The familiar songs are polished to a soft glow, each note placed just so, each phrase weighted with respect. And yet, the heart strains to catch something more a tremor, a risk, the flicker of a story being lived rather than remembered. Instead, the album moves like a well-rehearsed memory: faithful, lovely, and just out of reach.
It is only when the pair turn to their own songs modest, tender, unguarded that a different air fills the room. Here, suddenly, the music breathes. Here, the voices feel less like echoes and more like invitations. For a moment, the distance collapses, and we glimpse the record that might have been: less perfect, perhaps, but infinitely more alive.
Those who have followed Fulton and Lindquist over the years will find much to admire the mastery, the devotion to the tradition. And yet, it is hard not to mourn what was left unexplored. In the effort to honor the past, they have captured its beauty, but not its fire.
Some albums close like a door. This one leaves a window open, and a sigh of wind passing through.
Thierry De Clemensat
Member at Jazz Journalists Association
USA correspondent for Paris-Move and ABS magazine
Editor in chief – Bayou Blue Radio, Bayou Blue News
PARIS-MOVE, April 27th 2025
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Musicians:
Champian Fulton – piano 7, voice,
Klas Lindquist – saxophone & clarinet
Tracklist:
1.The Very Thought of You
2.Don’t Do That to Me
3.You Can Depend on Me
4.Tea For Two
5.Serenade In Blue
6.Someday You’ll Be Sorry
7.I Was Looking for You
8.Bésame Mucho
9.My Monday Date
10.P.S. I Love You