VERT - SMALL PIECES LOOSELY JOINED (CD)

""small pieces loosely joined" comprises both flirty come-ons in pop's direction as well as short sketches, reminiscent of its title. Using accordion, Rhodes, lots of piano of course and a dense tissue of electronica, the tracks tentatively approach something akin to musical leitmotifs, only to toy with them, view them from different angles and then surprisingly move on to new thematic pastures. At a later stage, having long since focused our attention on a multitude of new sonic occurrences, VERT unexpectedly side-steps to the original motif. And yet the listener is by no means swept away in a maelstrom of sonic events, but rather is engaged by the inherent pace of "small pieces..."." (label info)