Welsh harpist Amanda Whiting follows up last year’s incredible breakthrough debut After Dark (which made BeatCaffeine’s 2021 Favorite Albums of the Year) with another superb album, titled Lost in Abstraction, on Jazzman Records.

Building on the foundation of her debut, this brilliant 10-track recording blends Whiting’s celestial and spiritually soulful harp playing with solid grooves provided by bassist Aidan Thorne and drummer John Reynolds, whom also appear on the previous recording. The session also features percussionist Baldo Verdú and regular collaborator and flautist Chip Wickham (Whiting is featured on his recently released Astral Traveling EP). The music is both meditative and exploratory, with Whiting really continuing to carve out her own unique sound and approach to her harp playing.

Written during lockdown, the album explores the questions and realizations while confined in an environment of isolation and unknown. The spiritual findings, the playful curiousness, and the reflective moments of loss.

Great from start to finish, Amanda Whiting has once again delivered another remarkable and mesmerizing recording that’s up there with any other jazz recording released this year.

Amanda Whiting — ‘Lost In Abstraction’
(Jazzman Records)

1. Abstraction
2. Lost
3. Venus Fly Trap
4. Temptation
5. Too Much
6. Where Would We Be
7. Up There
8. Discarded
9. Suspended
10. Got It?

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