There are songs that touch and deeply affect the heart. Songs that move you, awaken memories and come back to you time and again. Songs whose lyrics and profound musical vitality carry thoughts and emotions so close to your own hitherto unspoken credo. On this recording I’ve tried, in my own way, to sing with my instrument some
Of these songs.
Here are Scandinavian religious hymns, discerning songs by the late Violetta Parra and Ornette Coleman, tonepoems by Swedish composers Evert Taube and Stefan Forssén, a children’s song and a few cantabile-improvisations of my own.
In the interests of consistency of sound and atmosphere, as well as a natural and organic form for the interpretations and improvisations, the bass pieces were all recorded on the same occasion, a rainy evening – 17th December 1999 – in the church-like Organ Hall at the School of music and musicology in Göteborg, Sweden. To Create a slight contrast in musical texture, Manfred Eicher suggested that I write and add some short pieces for brass. I composed these miniatures with the same goal of simplicity and arioso feeling.
Someone has said, perhaps pretentiously, that singing is allowing the divine to speak through you. Myself, I want to believe that an honest wish to convey and share your experiences and visions, using your most personal tools of expression, is…to sing. - Anders Jormin
Tracks
01. Choral (Anders Jormin)
02. Giv mig ej glans (Jean Sibelius)
03. I denna ljuva sommartid (Nathan Söderblom)
04. Gracias a la vida (Violeta Parra)
05. Idas sommarvisa (Georg Riedel)
06. Xieyi (Andres Jormin)
07. Decimas (Anders Jormin)
08. Och kanske är det batt (Stefan Forssén)
09. Sul tasto (Andres Jormin)
10. Tenk (Anders Jormin)
11. Sonett till Cornelis (Stefan Forssén)
12. Romance-distance (Anders Jormin)
13. Scents (Anders Jormin)
14. Fragancia (Evert Taube)
15. Q (Anders Jormin)
16. War orphans (Ornette Coleman)
17. Choral (Anders Jormin)
ANDERS JORMIN double-bass
ROBIN RYDQVIST trumpet, flugelhorn
KRISTER PETERSSON French horn
LARS-GÖRAN CARLSSON trombone
NICLAS RYDH bass trombone
Recorded December 17, 1999 at Aristen Göteborg and October 2, 2000 at Studio Bohus, Kungälv
ECM 1762 013 998 - 2