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████ YEAR....[ 2010 QUALiTY.[ avg. 181kbps ████
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████ PLAYTIME[ 55:23 min REL.DATE[ 04.11.2010 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 10 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
████ SiZE....[ 71,3 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 sister sad 06:28 ████
████ 02 stethoscope 02:21 ████
████ 03 sailor waltz 09:45 ████
████ 04 gi hop 04:18 ████
████ 05 the wind and the leaves 03:03 ████
████ 06 wolverine hoods 06:09 ████
████ 07 monstrous colossus 05:26 ████
████ 08 song for e 06:32 ████
████ 09 cold blooded music 07:38 ████
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After the sympathising with EST members Dan Berglund and Magnus Ostrom receded – following the tragic loss of their leader and close friend Esbjörn Svensson in 2008 – concern for their musical predicament followed. They couldn't parachute in a Svensson-like pianist and just carry on. But having been crucial collaborators in one of the most popular instrumental groups of recent times, they were likely to be torn between finding their own paths and retreading at least some of those laid by EST. Bassist Berglund has taken the next step with his quartet Tonbruket, which is about to tour the UK; the word is Swedish for a sound-studio, and this album is certainly an exercise in the layering of effects and textures. Sometimes it suggests an update on Tubular Bells, sometimes it's slide-guitar soft-rock reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac or ferocious metal-thundering (Berglund was a teenage Black Sabbath/Deep Purple fan). On the fragile piano rhapsody over slow funk, called Song For E, it gets closest to the EST atmosphere. It's varied, idiomatically, but I found I waited in vain for a motif that rose much above the trite, or a groove that had some personal urgency rather than a handy pack of studio loops driving it. Berglund is a fine ensemble bassist, but this doesn't really suggest that his own muse has shown him the post-EST light.
