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The title of Gábor Gadó's latest album is replete with mystery: 'Whispering Quiet Secrets Into Hairy Ears'. It speaks of the wisdom of age, the facility our ear acquires of filtering out the essence of what has to be heard, of the inner hearing of this sedimentation of the essence deposited in the human soul as the years pass by. From the spirit of ancient liturgical modal music (the Gregorian style of Solum Ipsum) to modernist angularity (the dislocation of lines in Lucidum Intervallum), the guitarist-composer continues to pursue a legacy that audiences have heard accumulating on the BMC label since the end of the 1990s. Having journeyed thus far in his oeuvre, and his life (getting on for 65) Gábor Gadó embarked on a vital collaboration with János Ávéd, his junior by 26 years. The Pater Noster which closes the album is borrowed from Ferenc Liszt, as is Vexilla Regis, which takes as its source a hymn of the sixth-century bishop Venance Fortunat.

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• For fans of contemporary, instrumental, sacred Eastern European jazz. Including Liszt works.

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Echoey electric guitarist teams with the sighing alto saxist Janos Aved for a collection of duets and small group affairs. The two are quiet deft together, with Gado's guitar creating thick soundscapes on the soft 'Lacrimosa' and radient 'Tiger Riding'. The two get bluesy on 'Fletus Sacer' and reverent on the sanctified 'Pater Noster', with the strings of cellist Tamas Zeteny and violaist Eva Osztrosits sitting in here, and as well as the Brittenish 'Narrations' and drifting 'Vexilla Regis'. Dark pastels of tones.

     —George Harris, jazzweekly.com (USA)