Nordic Jazz played by two of the most outstanding jazz musicians from Scandinavia, Nils Landgren and Esbjörn Svensson

180 gram Black Virgin Vinyl with a free Download Code included!

All music has its roots in folklore. In some playing styles this is easy to recognize. In others hundreds of years of cultural development and change have effectively sublimated those roots. Stripped of ornamentation and structural artifice, however, the foundation remains the same. The melodies and structures that affect and influence people in their day to day lives remain the basis of musical knowledge and experience. They are the blueprints of the collective consciousness and a challenge to the creative spirit. Individuality along with innovation in its surprising, unconventional workings emerge as a contrast to those folk origins. So is the secret art by which the balance between memory and fantasy, between folklore, tradition, and improvisation is weighed. It was through the influence of Landgren and Svensson's former teacher Bengt-Arne Wallin, who recorded the landmark album 'Old Folklore In Swedish Modern' back in 1962, that Esbjörn Svensson and Nils Landgren were inspired to make a duo album centered around folk songs. Inundated with jobs, the musicians finally found the time to once again get together in December 1999 in Oslo's Rainbow Studio. It would be a meeting full of exceptional jazz energy. Even more than the first time, they would rely on the force of reduction. Moods would be suggested, left open. Melodies worked out in simple clarity. Delicate variations supplemented and amplified both the original and traditional motifs of the central musical im- pressions. Layers of Light is an affair of the hearts of two artists who went back to their roots. That makes their music truthful, direct, and authentic in a wondrous way.

Track Listing

• Song from the Valley
• Calling the Goats
• Kauk
• Kristallen
• Mattmar
• Lakk
• Höpsi
• Calling the Cows
• Lullaby
• Simple Song
• Layers of Light
• Lonely At the Lakeside
• Norwegian Fox Trot
• Nils Walksong
• The Farewell

Additional Details

Label: ACT

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 58 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 11/26/21

UPC: 614427928115