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Ewan Svensson - guitar Yasuhito Mori - bass Magnus Gran - drums |
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compositions by Ewan Svensson |
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at Bohus Sound Recording, Kungälv, Sweden, September 3, 1995 and February 21,22, 1996 Sound Engineer: Åke Linton Photos: Per Bergbom Front Cover Photo: Leif Svensson Front Cover Design: Justus Hultgren Layout: Sofia Westin Produced by Ewan Svensson Executive Producer: Leif Collin |
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| "Swedish axe god Ewan Svensson is one
of those unheard-on-this-side-of-the-Atlantic guitarists whose approach
to the instrument is quietly virtuostic. He was deeply influenced by the
early ECM sounds made by Ralph Towner and John Abercrombie and is a contemporary
of Pat Metheny, with the same lyrical sensibilities as those men, but
a more democratic manner of running a trio. With truly gifted bassist
Yasuhito Mori and Swedish master drummer Magnus Gran, Svensson crafts
a series of gentle articulations, angular jazz motifs, and haunting soundscapes
-- sometimes in the same tune -- for the purpose of enveloping the listener
in his intensive and exhaustive investigations of mode, timber, and tonality.
Noteworthy here are the swinging "Weird Blues," with its knotty
arpeggios that are played easily and fluidly without a hint of stressing
the instrument's fabric, and the gorgeous "Höstglimtar,"
with a languid interplay between Svensson and Mori, with an unreal sort
of suspended time dance by Magnus. Also worth noting is the ethereal "Arachon,"
with an unhurried solo that takes the melody through the mode and creates
an alternate sound world with lovely interplay between the rhythm section,
and the closer, "Late Evening," which is one of the most elegiacly
pastoral pieces ever composed for the instrument. ~ Thom Jurek, All
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