Karl Bjorå - I Would Have Made It (2025) [Hi-Res]

On Karl Bjorå's first Jazzland album I Would Have Made It", the musical textures are distinct, almost tactile in their clarity, weaving together elements of jazz and ambient improvisation with accents of Americana, Nordic folk, whispers of rock and post-rock, fleeting glimpses of classicism, and even echoes of hymnal reverence. The instrumentation creates a consistently organic feeling, as though the music has spontaneously grown from a crack in a stone or atop still waters. Even the choices of synthesiser sounds, for example, adhere to the overall resinous, woody and reedy sound.