There is an alluring timelessness to the music created by pianist Lucian Ban’s Elevation quartet on Songs From Afar—the group’s third album for Sunnyside. Perhaps that’s the effect of mixing traditional Romanian folk songs— two of them sung with authenticity by Gavril Tarmure—with a band that can sound like it’s channeling John Coltrane’s quartet . . . . there is a strong life-force that seems to flow through this music.
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