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Briefly Shaking
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An album that has been a fixture of every CD player I can get near since the moment it arrived in my possession, Anja Garbarek's "Briefly Shaking" is in many ways a vast departure from anything she's done previously-- keeping the elements of electronica and the layered orchestral instrument arrangements, Garbarek for this record partnered with Icelandic alternative musician Gisli, who handles the majority of the instrumental duties. The result is stunning-- a slice of modern alternative art rock-- like an update on Brian Eno's '70s pop albums or a Kate Bush filtered through Seattle, or sometimes a bit of both.

Like the rest of Garbarek's album, diversity is key here-- whether a minimalist arranged alt-rock workout ("Dizzy With Wonder", with a comfortable middle register vocal below the stripped back pulse, "Shock Activities", pushed forward and forced onward by horn arrangements led by father Jan on honking baritone sax, explosive "This Momentous Day"), or chasing the ghost of early '80s Kate Bush (sublimely overarranged "The Last Trick", achingly beautiful and yet downright creepy "Can I Keep Him", a first person telling of serial killer Dennis Nilsen's acts) or just downright different (piano-driven and electronica hinting "My Fellow Riders"), it all works, and it all works perfectly.

Perhaps just as importantly, it's an album that's staggeringly unique-- it has its influences and some of them are worn proudly-- the aformentioned Eno and Bush but also father Jan Garbarek and hints of No-Man figure prominently, and it's passionate performance coupled with production by Garbarek that makes the best use of space of nearly any recording I've ever heard (check out "Sleep"-- the strings and organ pulse and throb in the background on the chorus, but Garbarek sounds like she's singing in your ear, or the previously mentioned "Shock Activities", it sounds like a scream of guitars driving it until you notice it's a horn arrangement). It's not like her older works, and it's not like the other Northern European women singers that Garbarek seems to constantly get lumped in with (Bjork, Stina Nordstrom, etc.), it's really quite unique.

The bottom line is that I've played this record for anyone who will listen to it. It's probably the best pop (used loosely) album of the past few years. Essential listening.

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