Garbarek voltou

Personnel: Jan Garbarek, Kim Kashkashian, Manu Katché

Much of the success of In Praise of Dreams is attributable to Kashkashian, viola, who, with a warm and haunting tone, is the perfect foil for Garbarek's more frigid timbre. Like Garbarek, she seems dedicated to finding the right phrase, the perfect inflection, to give the material substance. And like Garbarek, she places the intent of the material before her own ego and, consequently, aims instead for a simple purity that makes for an engaging listen while still managing to reveal many layers on subsequent plays.

(in All About Jazz)