| This is Not a Miracle | ||||
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| Released | November 20, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | June 2013 | |||
| Studio | Holand Sound Oslo, Norway | |||
| Genre | Jazz, Experimental | |||
| Length | 47:26 | |||
| Label | ECM ECM 2417 | |||
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This is Not a Miracle is an album by experimental group Food recorded in June 2013 and released on ECM in November 2015. [1]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| All About Jazz | [3] |
| The Guardian | [4] |
| PopMatters |   [5] |
AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars and the review by Thom Jurek states "The album is the most groove-driven, performable, and accessible record in Food's catalog." [2]
All About Jazz reviewers said, "expect the unexpected. Strønen's production process distills the band's improvisational flights into compact pieces—not quite conventional tunes, but almost" [3] and "This is Not a Miracle is not a miracle, in fact. What it is however, is another mindful collection of compositions that look at jazz music with an open mind and equally open process." [6]
The Guardian's John Fordham said "The album belongs more to Strønen than Food’s previous recordings, and it’s none the worse for that." [4]
PopMatters' John Garratt said "This Is Not a Miracle is the result of the heavy editing and thankfully the process has not diluted the power that Food have displayed in the past... Food, as usual, give us the tastiest of both worlds on another quiet winner that lives up to the ECM name." [5]
In JazzTimes , Steve Greenlee wrote "This Is Not a Miracle is dreamy, effervescent and constantly shifting—waves bobbing on oceans, tree limbs swaying in breezes. Rarely has the marriage of acoustic and electronic seemed so natural." [7]
The Observer selected it as one of the 10 Best Jazz albums of 2015 noting "these guys not only have an advanced creative aptitude in the slipstream between laptop technology and acoustic instrumentation, but an uncanny sense of groove to boot." [8]
All compositions by Thomas Strønen.
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Food is an experimental jazz band initiated by British woodwind multi-instrumentalist Iain Ballamy and Norwegian percussionist Thomas Strønen after a coincidental meeting first in Trondheim, Norway and later in Molde in 1997. They played two gigs at Moldejazz 1998, which were recorded live to two-track, and became their first album Food (2000).
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