Trees of Life Anders Jormin, Lena Willemark & Karin Nakagawa
Album info
Album-Release:
2015
HRA-Release:
05.03.2015
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- 1 Krippainggler 08:43
- 2 Dröm 03:55
- 3 Jag Starkvar 03:19
- 4 Urbanus 04:03
- 5 Hirajoshi 05:59
- 6 Minni 02:03
- 7 Ogadh Dett 05:39
- 8 Lyöstraini 05:14
- 9 Slingerpolska 02:28
- 10 Uoruo 05:59
- 11 Lyösfridhn 04:49
- 12 Vilda Vindar 04:27
Info for Trees of Life
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.
This unusual and striking album of deep-rooted contemporary music is launched with ten concerts in Sweden.
Anders Jormin, double bass
Lena Willemark, voice, fiddle and viola
Karin Nakagawa, 25-string koto
Anders Jormin
was born 1957 in Jönköping, Sweden. After intense studies, he left Musikhögskolan in Göteborg with diplomas in double-bass and improvisation / pedagogy in 1979.
Today as a doublebass-player and composer, AJ is a frequent and highly respected performer on the international concert scene. As a musician in great demand, AJ has recorded and toured with many of the legends in jazz. Among others : Gilberto Gil, Lee Konitz, Elvin Jones, Joe Henderson, Don Cherry, Charles Lloyd, Mike Mainieri, Joe Lovano, and Jack deJohnette, as well as Kenny Wheeler, Albert Mangelsdorff, Tomasz Stanko, Dino Saluzzi, John Surman, John Taylor, Marilyn Mazur, Arve Henriksen, Mark Feldman , Paul Motian, Joey Baron, Tom Rainey , Jon Balke, Vertavo string quartet , Ann-Sofi von Otter, Norma Winstone and Marilyn Crispell. For many years, AJ was also a front figure in one of Scandinavias foremost ensembles, "Entra".
AJ today performs regularly all over Europe, USA/Canada, and Japan, but has also for shorter periods performed and studied ethnic music in Cuba and Mocambique. At the present AJ is a member of Bobo Stenson trio, and the unique swedish group "dr Dingo". AJ is also constantly creating new projects of his own, highly appreciating challenging work on local and national level as well as his international obligations. AJ is an "ECM recording artist".
Booklet for Trees of Life