For Patrick Watson, moments of space and silence can have just as much force as words and sounds. But with that sense of quiet precision comes great passion, too. It's a combination that's true of much of the music in his richly diverse palette, whether it's Arvo Pärt's solemn minimalism, D'Angelo's bare-bones neo-soul, the perfectly spare folk of Nick Drake or John Coltrane at his most ecstatic.