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  • Goodbye Everytime

    FYR005

    Artist: Open Trio

    Label: Found You Recordings

    "En liten glimrande pärla på botten av en tjärsvart svensk skogstjärn: här finns en underbar musikalisk lyster och ett stundtals svindlande musikaliskt genredjup. En av årets bästa - hittills." // Nerikes Allehanda, Stefan Nilson

    En av Esbjörn Svenssons främsta kvaliteter som pianist är hans förmåga att hela tiden bjuda in lyssnaren i det han spelar. Joakim Simonsson har någonting liknande - ett slags tydlighet och ro mitt i flödet av toner och ackord.
    DN (4/5)


    Modern Swedish jazz made by musicians knowing the pop-scene of today as much as the jazztradition. This is jazz, but most of all music; lyrical, beautiful and swinging. Pianist Joakim Simonsson and his trio have worked together for over 6 years and finally their second album is here. "Goodbye Everytime" is, according to composer/bandleader/pianist Simonsson, an album inspired by different goodbyes in life; to people and places, and about how some goodbyes, ironically, seems to be repeated.

    Since Open Trio’s first album (Saga – Colors, FYR002) came out in 2003, they’ve continued to develop a unique sound and first-class interplay.



  • Färger

    FYR002

    Artist: Open Trio

    Label: Found You Recordings

    The re-release of Färger gave, not only Joakim Simonsson, Daniel Olsson and Pär-Ola Landin the opportunity to once again, and this time in a wider range, share their music to the world outside Scandinavia. It also gave Found You Recordings the oportunity to open a co-operation with Saga's former record company, Einnicken Records. Together we were able to make a second edition of Saga's album, Färger (eng. Colors).

    Reviews on Färger:
    “Saga is simply a superb jazz trio, which with its musical interplay in front, manages to form Simonsson's vary compositions to a fine composite whole.”
    - Eskilstuna Kuriren

    “Saga creates their music on a very Nordic musical foundation with an essential ingredient of improvisation, which sometimes rolls over to freeform jazz. But it's most of all very poetic, sometimes breathlessly beautiful but neither ingratiating nor saccharine...This is a very exciting debut album.”
    - Nerikes Allehanda

    “If Saga continue to produce jazz of such emotional depth, exhilarating freedom, and memorable melodicism as they do on Färger, they certainly will be seeing me and, I suspect, many of you, tomorrow.” - All About Jazz

    “Joakim Simonsson has a very distinct touch in his playing which sometimes reminds you of a master like Paul Bley. ...There's a rare sound and warmth in this trio. The different shapes of the music make it all a real listener adventure.”
    - Jazz Life