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For the 2nd time around I'm thrilled and honored to be asked to write liner notes about this duo extraordinaire. Their first album, "December Songs" released in 2016 in Europe, is a true masterpiece in every way, but impressively, they have already managed to produce another one. In fact the recording you are about to listen to is even further up the scale of musicality, creativity, beauty and art. The recipe of their collaboration is the same as on the first release: breathe new life into old and famous tunes. Last time they picked Christmas carols, on this one they put jazz standards under surgery, meaning reharmonizing the chords, changing melodies, using different feel, tempi and grooves than the tunes normally are played in. Both Olga and Jens are masters in creating those "new compositions". I can't express in words how much I love and appreciate the work of these two amazing musicians. The richness in sound, harmony, improvisation and interplay gives a wonderful synergy effect and makes the 2 instruments merge into something much larger than the sum of its parts. The album opens with Thoresen alone and immediately grabs your attention with a full bodied jazz guitar tone of excellence. Throughout the album his lyric melodic lines are elegantly executed and his chord voicings sounds fresh, hip and complex. Konkova also has her solo performance tune, "Sol", and it's the closing of the album. Her interpretation of "Here Comes the Sun", by George Harrison and "The Beatles", is no less that ingeniously done. The virtuosity, the independence between left and right hand, the groove, flow and power is sensational. It's a roof lifter moment. Thank you for this wonderful music the two of you Per Mathisen (a somewhat shortened liner notes to fit this box)

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     —Fredrik Wandrup, The newspaper 'Dagbladet' Norway