Lena Willemark

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
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

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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