Ecovillage - The Road Not Taken (2022)

The Emil Holmström - Peter Wikström duo makes their music for a while now. In fact, The Road Not Taken is their 10th album in discography and they decided to celebrate this fact by inviting an impressive team of guests.

The most striking name is of course Fennesz. The Austrian ambient icon played guitars in the opening track called  Spark, a track that sets the tone for the whole release. Its quiet and subtle composition is designed to bring peace to the listener as well as take them into this self-reflecting, thoughtful state that can always be very much appreciated. But Fennesz is not the only exciting face here. And the other guests brought their instruments, making the album a neoclassical-infused, melancholic soundscape. It's filled with cello and viola (Henrik Meierkord and Aaron Martin), vibraphone (Masayoshi Fujita) and harp (Nailah Hunter) sounds which truly makes for a beautiful combo.

The album serves as a summary of a certain part of the duo's music career and probably also as an oportunisty to look back at some of their choices - this would suggest the album's title, taken from Robert Frost's poem. Nevertheless, a really good piece of subtle music.

The Road Not Taken costs 6 EUR.

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Country: Sweden

Genre: neoclassical soundscape

Label: laaps

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