My favorite CD of the last month, which I will attend to (fully) this evening: Lofty's Roach Soufflé - Harry Connick Jr. and it's entirely instrumental. I consider the first song mostly a "pacing" song, an attunement song that gets my mind into the right place, sets my audiophile listening ears to (full) focus. From the second song onward the music will reveal itself there in your room. The arrangements are simple: piano, double-bass, drums, mostly. Let me make it clear, these songs are not "catchy" - they are works of art, tunes and accompanying fingering, lingering effortlessly in dynamics that are not reaching to create fierce attack, so much as the work of a painter, working with little effort to illuminate generous themes that at times spin off into glorious unknown soundscapes. Gorgeous stuff.
