CD ACT Lars Danielsson: Liberetto

2011

Lars Danielsson - contrabas, violoncel, claviaturi
Tigran Hamasyan - pian,voce
John Parricelli - chitara
Arve Henriksen - trompeta
Magnus Ostrom - tobe, percutie

Happy coincidences can often lead to extraordinary results. No-one could have foreseen that Lars Danielsson and the Armenian pianist Tigran would pair up to form the new dream duo of the European jazz scene, when in fact the two musicians played their first concert together only one week before the scheduled recordings of Liberetto.

It was clear from the first note that two musical soulmates had found each other, and despite it happening by coincidence the result of their meeting was all the more intense. Lars Danielsson says: “Tigran sees my music exactly the way I do and he composes music exactly the way I would do myself.

For example, his ‘Svensk Låt’ sounds more Swedish than my songs. It was simply fantastic to record this album with him.”Similar to his partnership with the Polish pianist Leszek Możdżer, with whom Danielsson formed...

STERN magazine attested the Liberetto debut, which hit store shelves in 2012, a "mighty energy" that unleashes itself from a power centre of serenity. On "Liberetto II", Danielsson and his quartet take that energ...