Karen Salicath Jamali is a Danish-born, US-based composer-pianist with a long trail of serene solo releases and a clear feel for mood. Her work lives where prayer, lullaby, and étude overlap: simple figures, careful voicings, an ear for how a room blooms around a piano. Angel Trio keeps to that lane and sharpens it.
“Angel Trio 1” sets the palette: high-register leads that ring like glass, a soft left hand that rocks between two or three tones, and rubato that breathes without turning syrupy. Tiny ornaments at phrase ends give the melody lift. You can hear the instrument’s hammers and the light in the sustain, which makes the piece feel close, almost bedside.
“Angel Trio 2” is the briefest and most tender of the three. It moves like a hymn fragment, two ideas passing back and forth until they click. Jamali lets silence do part of the work, leaving small gaps that make the returns feel earned. Nothing clever happens here, and that is the point: it’s a small scene, held steady.
“Angel Trio 3” digs deeper into the middle register, with rolling figures that lean toward waltz without committing to it. The harmony brightens in the final minute and the right hand opens into wider intervals, the closest this set comes to a lift. Even then the touch stays soft, the cadence unhurried.
Across the EP the piano tone is warm, the pedaling careful, the phrasing clean. No dramatic pivots, no showy builds, just three pieces that invite you to sit still and listen to the room around a melody. It’s quiet music that holds its shape.
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