‘Less is more’ is a well-known saying. It’s an oxymoron because of its paradoxical nature. Paradoxes take us beyond ingrained patterns of perception, reasoning and action. That’s what is in the expression as coined by the old Greek.
This newly formed unit’s music is simple without being simple. It sounds vaguely familiar and strange at the same time. It resembles a lot known and nothing known. It has a fairy tale quality and as we know, in fairy tales lots of wondrous things can happen.
Drummer Peter Bruun from Copenhagen has been aware through his musical career of the creative potential and power lurking in paradoxical manoeuvres. In this new unit he has gathered three like-minded musical fellows under the 'All Too Human' flag.
Through the years he undertook a lot of terra incognita expeditions with pianist Simon Toldam, guitarist Marc Ducret and trumpeter Kasper Tranberg. It connected and connects them on deeper levels in their musical interaction.
1. Follow Me 05:45
2. All Too Human
3. Vernacular Avant-garde 07:37
4. Sunshine Superman
5. Extended Mind
6. Is That So Sir Names? 07:20
Kasper Tranberg, trumpet, cornet
Marc Ducret, guitars (6 & 12-stringed)
Simon Toldam, moog, juno 60, philicorda
Recorded in Copenhagen at The Village Studio, April 2017.
All compositions written and produced by Peter Bruun,
except #6 by Peter Bruun and Petter Eldh.
Cover artwork by Stéphane Berland.
