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Julie Campiche: Unspoken review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month
['John Fordham']
The Guardian
Campiche plucked guitar, zither and east Asian-style sounds from the harp, mingled with vocal loops, classical music, Nordic ambient jazz and more.
You might call her soundscape magical or otherworldly if it didn’t coexist with a campaigner’s political urgency on environmental and social issues.
But Campiche is too much of a visionary to overwhelm the eloquence of pure sound with polemic, as her new album, the unaccompanied Unspoken, confirms more than ever.
View image in fullscreen The artwork for Unspoken by Julie CampicheCampiche’s extra-musical agenda here is a celebration of sisterhood, dedicated to women in public and private lives who have inspired her.
And gifted young UK pianist/composer Noah Stoneman continues his steady rise with Dance at Zero, ingenious transformations of his minuscule compositions into rich improvisations in the company of fast-rising young saxophonist Emma Rawicz, bassist Freddie Jensen and UK jazz drum maestro James Maddren.