Charming, beautifully arranged acoustic intricacy in this crisp collaboration between the clear-voiced Icelandic-Italian singer-songwriter and Belgian multi-instrumentalist duo Aarich Jespers and Kobe Proesmans and friends. They previously collaborated in performance more than a decade ago, resulting in a 2016 live album, but this is the first LP of new material by Torrini since 2013’s Tookah, and the title comes from a race for musicians to get their flight from Reykjavík after the recording sessions before the arrival of a storm. Again there’s live, cosy, intimate performance feel to this album too, flirting with a variety of styles beyond the folk genre, with particular standouts such as the marimbas, piano, violin and jazzy guitars on Mikos, the wistful, slightly spooky feel of You Left Me In Bloom, to the more cinematic scale of The Illusion Curse, the electro-beats on Hilton or the crisp, precise clarity on Right Here. Overall, it feels like a warm, witty, fun night out at a small club performed by extremely refined artists. Out on Bella Union.
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