CD ACT Magnus Ostrom: Searching For Jupiter

2013

Magnus Ostrom - tobe, percutie, voce, claviaturi
Andreas Hourdakis - chitara electrica si acustica, banjo
Daniel Karlsson - piano, claviaturi
Thobias Gabrielson - bas electric, bass synthesizer, claviaturi

Inregistrat de catre Janne Hansson la Atlantis Studio, Stockholm, intre 28 ianuarie si 1 februarie 2013.
Mixat de catre Ake Linton la Bohus Sound Recording, Gothenburg, intre 14 si 19 februarie 2013.
Masterizat de catre Classe Persson la CRP Recording pe 6 martie 2013.

Given Swedish pianist Esbjörn Svensson's accidental death in 2008, it's easy to get fixated on the apparent lifting of his drummer (and childhood friend) Magnus Öström's spirits with his second post-EST album as leader. But there's no doubt that the music here is lighter, idiomatically broader and more spontaneous than it was on his Thread of Life in 2011. Searching for Jupiter's textures are intensified by Öström's teenage art-rock interests; some hear Pink Floyd in the layering textures of The Moon (And the Air It Moves). But the hoedown feel of Dancing at the Dutchtreat, or the brightly flirtatious Happy and The Fall, not only represent a mood change but a considerable broadening of thematic range. There's an engaging, EST feel to the ballad Mary Jane Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The title track, meanwhile, opens as a solemn, three-note motif, with a looping piano-figure under it, but gets freer and jazzier as guitarist Andreas Hourdakis and pianist Daniel Karlsson stretch out. And the Pat Metheny Group's jangling vivacity is an audible presence in At the End of Eternity. Öström's composing perhaps favours rotating key-changes a bit too much, but he has taken a big leap forward. [ The Guardian ]