Elisabeth Klinck has made a name for herself with three solo albums since 2022, but the Belgian violinist and vocalist is a teamplayer at heart. Following up on her collaboration album—confusingly released under the name Isabelle Lewis—with Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe and Valgeir Sigurðsson, My Hair Is Everywhere again sees the composer-performer embrace the trio formation alongside Maya Dhondt on piano and Adia Vanheerentals on sax, all three of them sharing vocal duties.
While the Klinck Trio’s name implies a classic jazz band hierarchy, the music undermines this notion already in its very first moments. The record opens with violin and voice in unisono while sax and piano accentuate their wordless, wistful melodies. No single part could possibly be missing, all of them forming a whole that is greater than the sum of its part. It goes on like this through a record that borrows from jazz as well as post-minimal traditions.
My Hair Is Everywhere is an intimate record both in regard to perfectly attuned interplay of the musicians and because it seeps with emotions. It unfolds slowly—the title track is 17 ½ minutes long—and moves concentrically closer to the heart of the individual pieces. This is the work of a team, speaking as a unified whole.
