The concept remains > Another intimate duo album. Focussing entirely on Viktoria Tolstoy's long-standing musical partnership with pianist Jacob Karlzon. Viktoria Tolstoy is a great melodramatic jazz singer, she makes happiness sound fragile and threatened, and bitterness sweet and enchanting. Karlzon has been Tolstoy's trusted companion on her band projects for more than 20 years now, it is a partnership that shows no signs of abating. Karlzon’s playing thrives on nuances, transitions, ambiguities. His playing style oozes technical brilliance, rhythmic and harmonic complexity with a perfect feeling for form. The ease with which Viktoria Tolstoy and Jacob Karlzon can change the fundamental character of songs that otherwise seem to be set in stone is quite spectacular. There is a calmness and strength in the music that comes from experience and draws from the tried and trusted.
