Anders Jormin – Pasado en claro (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:59 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Jazz
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The creative partnership of bassist Anders Jormin and singer/violinist/violist Lena Willemark was first given exposure on ECM in 2004. In 2015, they introduced a new project with koto player Karin Nakagawa on Trees of Light. Now, with the addition of drummer Jon F„lt (Anders’s longtime comrade in the Bobo Stenson Trio) the group has expanded its improvisational range. Many creative ideas are explored on Pasado en claro, emerging from its juxtaposition of poetry and music.
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Anders Jormin, Lena Willemark, Karin Nakagawa – Trees Of Light (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:38 minutes | 520 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Anders Jormin’s new Swedish-Japanese project returns the highly distinctive voice and fiddle of Lena Willemark to ECM (her first appearance on the label in more than a decade), and introduces koto player Karin Nakagawa. In their collaborative music the Japanese classical tradition and the stark, archaic sounds of the koto, allied to Jormin’s muscular bass improvisations, form a unique context for Lena’s sung poems, delivered in her native Älvdals-dialect. Traditions and non-idiomatic improvising are cross-referenced, and new paths are opened up.
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