Arve Henriksen 'SOLIDIFICATION' Interiority and humility are unavoidable sensations in the music of Arve Henriksen, a Norwegian trumpeter with a shadowy sense of the sublime.
(Chinen) SHANE ENDSLEY GROUP (Wednesday) A shadowy sense of groove guides this ensemble, with Shane Endsley on trumpet, Matt Renzi on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Pete Rende on piano and keyboards, and the rhythm team of Matt Pavolka on bass and Ted Poor on drums.
Once again, it's not uncommon to feel a vague sense of dread when walking down a shadowy street.
Various venues, Thu to 7 Dec JA Cult Norwegian multi-instrumentalists Jaga Jazzist join electronica, drum'n'bass, prog rock, classical music, free jazz, Afrobeat and more with a powerful theatrical sense: shadowy musicians move like wraiths around stages rammed with keyboards, vibes, guitars, saxes, traditional brass and pulsating, orange-lit drums.
Ordinary objects either do not exist, or exist in some kind of shadowy or derivative sense (think of 'the average man').
Five minutes in, I sensed shadowy figures moving around my peripheral vision, and ran for my life.
Like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine, Beach House communicates a sense of shadowy power, but its two songwriters, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, have pushed the shoegaze/dream-pop sound in a new direction.
I also had a paranoid sense of shadowy, Olympian forces weighing in from farther above; I've been told that the most powerful figures in the current literary world, the buyers for the major national bookstore chains, have been known to offer to increase their orders for a book if its cover is changed.
Hughes's father and uncle fought in the Great War and one senses their shadowy presence behind this elegy for those who did not survive it as they did.
It's a topic Julie Myerson dabbles with in The Quickening (Hammer, £9.99): Rachel and Dan's dream honeymoon on Antigua goes coffin-shaped when pregnant Rachel starts sensing a shadowy, oppressive presence who may be the ghost of one of her over-solicitous husband's former schoolmates.
The universe - and you - continually bubbles up from these shadowy subatomic entities, each sensing, reflecting, and interacting in a seamless whole.
