Magnus Öström & Dan Berglund: e.s.t. 30 [Vinyl 1LP]

Modern Jazz / Indie Jazz
premiera polska: 2024-07-26
opakowanie: Digipackowe etui
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Szesnaście lat temu, 14.06.2008 r., podczas nurkowania w Bałtyku zginął wybitny szwedzki pianista Esbjörn Svensson, lider cenionego na całym świecie tria e.s.t. Pozostali muzycy, perkusista Magnus Öström i kontrabasista Dan Berglund, uczcili trzydziestą rocznicę założenia zespołu koncertem w Filharmonii Kolońskiej.
Fani e.s.t. wiedzą, że obaj prowadzą teraz własne formacje i wykonują własne utwory, ale z okazji jubileuszu sięgnęli po kompozycje z repertuaru legendarnego tria. Na scenę zaprosili kolejno: pianistę Joela Lyssaridesa, gitarzystę Ulfa Wakeniusa, trębacza Verneri Pohjolę i saksofonistę, flecistę Magnusa Lindgrena.
Koncert rozpoczęli z Lyssaridesem grając tytułowy utwór z albumu "From Gagarin’s Point of View", od wydania którego zaczęła się ich międzynarodowa kariera. To balladowy temat z wpadającym w ucho motywem przywołującym pamięć wielkiego pianisty i kompozytora. W 2003 r. ukazał się album "Seven Days of Falling" i ten temat muzycy wybrali na kolejny utwór wspomnieniowego koncertu.
Piękną melodię wykonał na gitarze elektrycznej Ulf Wakenius, a kapitalne solo smykiem na kontrabasie zagrał, tak jak przed laty, Dan Berglund. Album "e.s.t. 30" zamyka utwór "Believe, Beleft, Below" z nostalgicznymi solówkami trąbki, fortepianu i saksofonu. Wspaniały hołd dla Svenssona.
autor: Marek Dusza

Editor's Info
Love remains…In 1993, three musicians from Sweden, Esbjörn Svensson, Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström formed the band e.s.t.. Svensson and Öström had known each other ever since their first steps into music as children. Neither of them could have anticipated that e.s.t. would become the most influential band in European jazz of the noughties. And when the band formed they probably didn't think they were particularly ‘jazz’ either; all they wanted to do was to play the music which united their passions: rock, pop, classical, folk, improvisation. In the following 15 years, e.s.t. would play thousands of concerts worldwide, release ten studio albums and several live recordings, win awards, gold discs. We all know how the story ends.
Or did it really end? And will it ever end? To mark the 30th anniversary of e.s.t., Magnus Öström and Dan Berglund combined forces with close musical friends Joel Lyssarides, Magnus Lindgren, Verneri Pohjola and Ulf Wakenius to give two major concerts, one at the Philharmonie in Cologne and other at the Filadelfia church in Stockholm. They played a selection of quintessential pieces from the timeless e.s.t. repertoire, but in a way that has never been heard before. The six musicians, each one a solo artist of international renown, treat the original melodic and rhythmic contours of these tunes with tenderness and affection. The iconic melodies and rhythms are all there, but we also hear how they are opened up again and again, as the musicians immerse them in unexpected warmth and light. These players react to each other in fascinating ways, and there is also a definite tingle in the air as the audience listens to the music in pin-drop silence, then bursts into uninhibited applause at the end.
“e.s.t. 30” zooms in from the widest of panoramas to the intimacy of the close-up. And from the total silence and weightlessness of space in the opener "From Gagarin's Point Of View" to the heartfelt sincerity of the final track "Believe, Beleft, Below", or as it is called in the later version with vocals: "Love is Real". “If we meet again, I'd tell you how I feel, I'd tell you from the start, I'd tell you love is real.” Love remains.

muzycy:
Magnus Öström - drums
Dan Berglund - double bass
Magnus Lindgren - tenor saxophone, flute
Joel Lyssarides - piano
Verneri Pohjola - trumpet
Ulf Wakenius - electric guitar

utwory:
1. From Gagarin S Point of View
2. Seven Days of Falling
3. Eighthundred Streets By Feet
4. Tuesday Wonderland
5. Elevation of Love
6. Believe, Beleft, Below

wydano: May 31, 2024
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