Nilento Records

Bach: Tenor arias (Leif Aruhn-Solén) [Digipack / CD]

Luciafirandet som det tar sig uttryck i vår tid har en lång historia, med rötter tillbaka till tidig medeltid. Här återfinns Staffansritten och Staffanssjungningen, stjärnspelen och traditionen "att gå med ljusa stjärnan", och som det senast tillagda elementet ljusgestalten Lucia. Kören Ymna, Göteborg, har hämtat sångerna till denna cd ur glömda jultraditioner och en slumrande visskatt, oemotståndligt vackra melodier som har fått en ny dräkt i körarrangemang av dirigent Johanna Thür. Värme och musikalisk rikedom fyller musiken. Sprakande livsglädje, glöd och pregnans karaktäriserar samspelet mellan Ymna och folkmusikerna i trion NID; Hanna Wiskari saxofon, Mia Marin fioler och Petter Berndalen slagverk.

Double album with old songs on CD 1 and new songs on CD 2. All music composed and arranged by Tommy Kotter except Bolero composed by Maurice Ravel.<br/>With guests, Vocalist Gine Gaustad Anderssen from Norway and percussionist Stefan Engberg. <br/>On the title song Tender Land, young musicians from the Arts Programme at Hvitfeldtska Upper Secondary School in Göteborg are Playing and Singing with Joy and enthusiasm, 10 instrumentalists and about 20 singers!<br/><br/>Tommy Kotter, piano<br/>Yasuhito Mori, bass<br/>David Sundby, drums<br/><br/>Gine Gaustad Anderssen, vocals<br/>Stefan Engberg, percussion

Sometimes when we are meeting to play with the Trio, it so happens that we play an improvisation without having commented or discussed what to play.<br/>When we where in the amazing Nilento studio and had made some recordings I suggested that we just should play something free. This resulted in seven improvisations that we played one after the other without saying a word. <br/>We all agreed that we should keep it all and make a separate CD out of it.<br/><br/>All this music was spontaneously improvised and composed between takes during the recording of the double album Tender Land.<br/><br/>Tommy Kotter, piano<br/>Yasuhito Mori, bass<br/>David Sundby, drums

Holmström Ulla Carin & Gilbert: Magritte 2020 [Digipack / CD]