Harald Lassen Balans Vinyl LP 2023

Tracklist:s

1. Liturgi/Leave Me Be
2. Good Luck, W
3. Dada-Dadida
4. Jeg elsker deg
5. When He Sleeps
6. Sentiment Constant
7. Impromptu Wonder

Balans, Harald Lassen's fourth album, is a fascinating self-portrait of an improviser who finds freedom in a good song, a songwriter who invites listeners and fellow musicians to explore what he has created, and an artist who understands that the only valid taste is the personal. It opens with high-pitched dialogue between saxophone and band in "Liturgi / Leave Me Be" and ends with a thoughtful piano monologue surrounded by forest sounds and electronic crackling on "Impromptu Wonder". It is an album that revolves around a bittersweet melancholy that is not resigned, but accepted, and which leaves room for new faith in art's possibility to make human connections.