# CD review: Carsten Dahl Trinity – Mirrors Within 2020: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2020/12/27/cd-review-carsten-dahl-trinity-mirrors-within-2020-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2020-12-27T12:59:05+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Carsten Dahl is widely considered to be one of the most original and creative 
pianists coming out of Europe. He has received several awards like the Ben Webster
Award, the Django D’Or, the Carl Nielsen Prize and several Danish Music Award Jazz.
With a huge audience in Scandinavia he is now conquering the rest of Europe. Now
he’s ready with a follow-up to the highly acclaimed “Painting Music” released on
ACT Music.**

On “Mirrors Within”, Dahl and his bandmates, Stefan Pasborg (drums) and Nils Bo 
Davidsen (bass), explores total improvisation. All the recordings were made without
talking in the studio and with no prior previous agreements or ideas, except two
tracks based on rough sketches (‘Falling Down Down’ and ‘How I Hear Beautiful’).
That the result sounds so good and cohesive is a testament to the level of musicianship
and connection between the three.

‘When we enter the room together, we compose instantly’, Dahl says. ‘We are playing
composers. We are very close to the ability of creation. This recording is the essence
of what creation is about in an improvisatory context.’

It´s spontaneous and straightforward just like the brush strokes by Dahl seen on
the album cover. But it´s not random what goes on. The trio establish a sonic architecture
as clear and vivid as a mountain source.

‘To me “Mirrors Within” is the picture of the collective and the universal’, Dahl
says. ‘In the music we mirror ourselves in one another. But the mirror can also 
break and behind it is black’. Hereby he insinuates the both bright and dark sides
of his own artist life. He has spoken in public about trauma, therapy and medicine.
Music, painting and poetry are his creative responses.

A superb and super creative release from Denmark’s most important pianist – here
he shows us why he’s always considered to be cutting edge.

**Tracks**

1. The Prayer 08:34
 2. Palilalia 06:28 3. Turning Left 03:32 4. Old Rag 03:44 5.
Mysterious Room 03:05 6. A Minor Disgrace 03:54 7. Coma 04:05 8. Everything Never
Happens To Us 04:13 9. Falling Down Down 04:23 10. New Rag 06:45 11. How I Hear 
Beautiful 04:51

**Carsten Dahl – piano**
 **Stefan Pasborg – drums** **Nils Bosse Davidsen – bass**

![Mirrors Within | Carsten Dahl Trinity | Storyville Records](https://i0.wp.com/
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