Artist: Iain Ballamy

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Catalogue no: 22

Label: Sound Recording (Mactwo)

Price: £14

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Track Listing

The Little Radio is the latest album from Iain Ballamy with Stian Carstensen on button accordion

Reviews

01/01/2004 John Fordham, Guardian 4*

"Rarely have a jazz-improvising duo sounded so together, yet at the same time inhabited such compatible but distinctive separate worlds, as the British saxophonist Iain Ballamy and the Norwegian accordionist Stian Carstensen on this warm and craftily lyrical set. Ballamy is at his breathily jazziest for much of this session. The imperiously individualistic Carstensen sometimes follows him, but sometimes whirls off into a ghostly, glistening soundscape of his own, as he does from the off in the opening Body and Soul. Ballamy plays with exquisitely tender grace, having begun unaccompanied with a downward whoosh of buttery notes like Ben Webster, before Carstensen joins him at a contrastingly limping gait, giving the music an almost sinister slow-tango feel. ...Delicious".