Silvervest
The unique duo of double bassist Nicolas Caloia and vocalist Kim Zombik offers an elegant, skeletal take on song and harnesses power of vulnerability. Echoing the sophisticated songcraft of everyone from Joni Mitchell to Laurie Anderson, and even the eerie jazz malaise Archie Shepp's collaboration with Jeanne Lee, Blasé, Caloia and Zombik distill their 30+ years of varied experience through this project to offer something that's at once palatable, and unclassifiable—minimalist in execution but robust in impact. Sitting between the carefully mapped-out and daringly freeform, between popular sensibilities and avant garde restlessness Silvervest's sonic identity is clear, palpably melodic, yet always leaves room for intuition and boundless exploration.