‘There Was Somebody There’ returns to the album’s earlier wistfulness

Her vocal flights on those records can hardly prepare one for the intimacy and empathy of her harmonies and other voices on The Letting Go

the storms of the heart and the loneliness of longing

mantra-like fragments and a handfeel percussion lend themselves as living and breathing elements in Roxane’s beguiling and spellbinding anecdotes

HATKA - Quartet LP Power Violence ‘There Was Somebody There’ returnsHatka performed at Telakka Jazz on the first Friday night of January 2025. The following Sunday the trio visited the studio to record a session music captured in the festival afterglow, fuelled by a shared commitment to free expression. The album is titled Quartet for a reason. A fourth voice, saxophonist Jone Takamki, was originally meant to join the group for both the live performance and the studio recording. Quartet is what was planned and what