Never mind the length - feel the quality. It's solo piano, with an airy, ghostly sense of decay in the sonic wash that is very immersive. Linger in the after notes. Conceptually the four elements - inspired by water, fire, air, earth. The 53-year-old Jönköping born Karlzon is really on our radar most as a player with the great Sting guitarist and songwriter Dominic ''Shape of My Heart'' Miller who has also released some fine albums on ECM.
The Swede lit us up inside last year with Miller on Vagabond's Lone Waltz a whole lot.
Describing his new release just issued Karlzon says it is an improvised suite and is ''another fruit of a unique collaboration'' between himself and Lars Nilsson from Gothenburg studio Nilento.
That studio resonates mostly because it was where Nilsson mixed and mastered bass icon Avishai Cohen's glorious Almah, a classic of the 2010s. Jacob Karlzon, photo: Mats Bäcker
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