Tracklist:

Passage I (Small, Soft Feet Running Across Wooden Floors In The Morning)Passage Ii (Listening To Lullabies While Holding Hands)

Passage Iii (Slow Days Of Togetherness)

Passage Iv (Watching You Quietly Eat An Apple In The Shade)

Passage V (Sounds From Your Rituals Playing In The Garden Near The Old Tree Which Has Witnessed Your Childhood)

Passage Vi (While You Slept, The Thought Of Not Yet Knowing How To Braid Your Hair Brought Quiet Tears)

Passage Vii (When You Learned To Stand In Your Own Light)

Passage Viii (Fifteen Years Passed And A Full Circle Moment Surrounded Us, Where The Ocean Meets The Mountains)

Emotive Ambient, Jazz, Neoclassical explorations…

Passages in Time, the third album from Kasper Bjørke Quartet, traces the contours of a blend of spiritual jazz reverence and the calming grandeur of '80s ambient. Inspired by Christopher Nolan's observation that "time is the most fundamental part of our human experience," the compositions are approached as fragments of time and memory.

Meditations on the elusive nature of time form the heart of the work, merging freeform jazz improvisations with cyclical synthesizer patterns that mirror its quiet undulations.Dreamy synths intertwine with guitar, harp, trumpet, flugelhorn, saxophone, and flute, creating a spacious environment for contemplation.

The music invites reflection on the choices that shape our lives and the lives of those closest to us, and on the quiet weight of our priorities within the brief span we call life on this planet. Each passage unfolds as a fleeting moment suspended in time. The subtitles hint at fragments from someone's diary, tender observations of love, parenthood, and connection. Together, the passages form a musical memoir of sorts, where memory and emotion are gently woven into the compositions.

LP, BioVinyl, Spotlack on painting on the front.