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  With the third and final CD in their Xala III trilogy, Ania Losinger and Mats Eser embark on a sparsely illuminated journey into the unknown. Perhaps this is why their disc is entitled Scope: it provides the necessary space and opportunity for development in which lie an inherent potential to exceed limits.
  Though the disc remains round, as we listen, spaces impose themselves on our hearing and shift, transform, disappear and unfold ceaselessly. This time, not only the compositions but also the sound is new, entirely new. After one of the countless, inspirational mix and mastering sessions with Björn Meyer, Ania Losinger justly wrote, „Where in the world can one find examples of instrumental songs featuring Xala III and Rhodes?“ Which immediately raises the question: What do we know of this world?
  The sound that ushers in the first song entitled "Minimal Song", provides our ears with an anchor point. Around this point - rotating and glistening, first earnestly seeking a strong foundation and at last plainly rushing off in haste, in jubilation – a feeling solidifies which challenges its minimalism.
  Actually, everything also revolves around the question of what exactly the Fender Rhodes piano is undertaking with the Xala III. Is it accompanying it, adding to it or creating it anew? Perhaps the songs "Arc", "Room XI", "Meters" and "Room V" hold the answer to this question. Here the beauty of the sounds is celebrated, though something else, a contradiction, lies in the background. And the dervishes dance, the groovers sway, birds fly, excited and joyful, speedily high, then skimming low. Eight pieces are included in total, that is to say, eight songs that, though connected, are each able to create their own separate space. In "Crimson" - the title is a reminiscence of the great Robert Fripp and his King - the Fender piano begins like an organ, massive, rocky and wide-ranging. It placates, ministers to and embraces the Xala allowing its sound to blossom fully. It is a dialogue between two instruments and two musicians, where pleasure, truth and compositional complexity encounter playful precision. The songs 05 and 08, "Ellipse" and "Open Space I" are absolutely unrestrained. Here, the space that is created by the sounds is just as immense and great and large and flowing, as it is conceivably possible for us to hear. Behind Open Space I, we may reliably assume, other open spaces are to be found.
  
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