Paolo Odradek Records Overland

For Italian jazz artist Paolo Russo, Overland encapsulates his love of travel: relaxed, spacious, allowing time to absorb an array of atmospheres. This is reflected musically on this album in Russo’s evocations of specific places – a Norwegian fjord, a Brazilian village, the Danish countryside, South American cities, the Adriatic coast – which are communicated in combination with his emotional responses to those journeys. The result is jazz of kaleidoscopic colours, conjuring up the spirit of adventure to create a vivid sense of place and time.