Music is a conversation, but it can also be many conversations. Some are pure expression, others are polemical, others yet shared whispers. But if there's genuine dialogue in the exchange between the speaker and the listener, then the ideas and feelings wend their way down a communal, expanding path. There is also another kind of conversation that we rarely have time for these days: the one with yourself.

With Unspoken Songs, guitarist Tobias Sjögren and vocalist/trumpeter Per Jørgensen have produced such a set of stories. The title is an apt name: these are the ones that do not see the light of day, but the ones that reflect on the quieter moments in life. Their approach reflects both Pat Metheny's transformational ascendance and Ralph Towner's poignant solitude.

They address the questions that echo down to the bottom of those rarely plumbed spaces with rich sonority until they surely reveal the heart's answer - sometimes with a flash of brilliance, others a hand-shaded candle to light the way; these shy bursts of illumination shine with such clarity as to open up lines of sight we didn't know were there. We can instantly recognize these benchmarks that ...

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