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Home / Artists / JONAS KNUTSSON / BLÅSLÅTAR

THIS ALBUM IS NOMINATED FOR A SWEDISH GRAMMY 2011!
Windwise
(Swedish folk music on solo saxophone)
Playing these tunes on the saxophone entails certain challenges. As a saxophonist playing this music, you can end up feeling like a trespasser in
the fiddle player’s territory. Especially while playing traditional songs from Orsa and Bingsjö. This is why it has been particularly exciting on this occasion, to instead create a recording centred on the saxophone’s perspective when it comes to tone, dynamics and key choice. However, as I have learned most of these songs from fiddle players, it is impossible to avoid the influ- ence of their techniques on my own interpretations.
The musical phrases are most often created for the fiddle, which means there are very few places to breathe. Dynamically speaking, the saxophone is also a much louder instrument than the fiddle. This is why I have tried especially hard to find a way to play softly but with a pure tone and energy that balances well against the tone of the other instruments, including the fiddle and the nyckelharpa.
I was a member of jazz pianist and composer Elise Einarsdotter’s ensemble for many years. In the late 1980’s, the group expanded from a quartet to a quintet with the addition of singer and fiddle player, Lena Willemark. She brought with her traditional music from Älvdalen, which was added to the group’s repertoire. It was then that I learned to play my first fiddle tunes on the saxophone and I was immediately captured by the ingenious melodies. For me, this became the starting point of an adventurous journey
through traditional Swedish music. Alongside other projects over the past 20 years, I have played, transcribed and dissected these special songs in an attempt to better understand the complexity and stories within them.
I have learned this music from my fellow col- leagues in different bands and projects as well as other folk musicians I have met or listened to, my students and old recordings and transcriptions, which has led to the quite diverse selection of tunes. On this record- ing, I have simply chosen some of my favourites.
Everything was recorded on the first of July 2010 at Atlantis Studios in Stockholm, with legendary sound engineer, Janne Hansson.
A big thank you to my musical colleagues who have inspired me by playing Swedish folk music on the saxophone: Kjell Westling, Roland Keijser, Sten Källman and Thomas Ringdahl Also, a special thanks to: Björn Ståbi, Nils Agenmark, Lena Wil- lemark, Ola Bäckström, Per-Johan Arnström, Lisa Rydberg, Carl Viklund, Emil Carstedt, Johan Hedin, Per Gudmundsson, Lisa Eriksson, Markus Räsänen, Kramfors, Ale Möller, Emil Carstedt, Gunnar Karlsson, Siv Burman, Gössa Anders Andersson, Lisa Lestander for the songs and Janne Hansson and Claes Persson for the sound.
Jonas Knutsson

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