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Live at Maggies ’18

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Arnold Ludvig Quintet

Label: Tutl Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 01:10:00
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Tracks

Port Of Thor; Journey To Copenhagen; Midnight Lullaby; Desire; Gróthúsvatn; Miles Beyond; I Feel Better.

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Album Description

Arnold Ludvig’s Quintet - LIVE @ Maggies '18 concert in Nólsoy, Faroe Islands, won the 2026 Faroese Music Award (FMA) for "Special Release Album of the Year" and was nominated for Composer of the Year.

English Translation link with photo and text:

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Faroese language link:

https://kvf.fo/greinar/2026/03/06/fma-2026-live-i-maggies-18-hja-arnold-ludvig-quintet-arsins-serutgava?fbclid=IwY2xjawQbqVRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFDVk5KeHg3elRBSmVHemdIc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHryLYqu50JLztdNQPaAQHPzBNJV1JeeJ1MApJ0koBG-JeHpj_ujkIPaW4Kwc_aem_2CJyFGTGouFON1hGRrTfPw

Liner notes on Tutl Records:

This live recording of Arnold Ludvig’s Quintet at Maggies Café in Nólsoy, Faroe Islands, reflects both community and individualism. It’s evident in the way his quintet performed all of Ludvig’s 7 tunes on this night. The flow and interplay among all 5 musicians are quite sublime at times. The band is like a family, a really well-functioning unit. The soloing by each musician reflects individual artistic expression, and they give us personal interpretations of the compositions. It is a real pleasure to listen to the joyous playfulness of the quintet on this live recording.

All 7 compositions by Arnold Ludvig were written at different times in different cities, including Reykjavík, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tórshavn, and Sandur, between 1993 and 2014.

The music takes the listener on a journey from Celtic folk music through modern Nordic-inspired jazz, and back to African-American blues-inspired jazz. The tunes reflect the composer’s search for his innermost true self-expression as a jazz composer. Some of the compositions just came to him in a flash, “like from above”, in his own words. The quintet’s performance reflects that same flow of consciousness at Maggies that night in 2018.