Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble's lyrics & chords

Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble. In 1994, while fearlessly searching for new conceptions of sound and not caring where he found them, Jan Garbarek joined hands with the classical early-music movement, improvising around the four male voices of The Hilliard Ensemble. Now here was a radical idea guaranteed to infuriate both hardcore jazz buffs and the even more pristine more-authentic-than-thou folk in early music circles. Yet this unlikely fusion works stunningly well — and even more hearteningly, went over the heads of the purists and b...read more