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NORTH

Anders Hagberg

Label: Prophone/NAXOS
Released: 2020
Duration: 49:00:00
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Album Description

Flautist, soprano saxophonist and composer Anders Hagberg is releasing a new album, NORTH, for which he has put together a Nordic “dream team” of his new and old musical colleagues. The music for NORTH was recorded over two days in late February 2020, just before the world was paralyzed by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Taking a handful of compositions as a starting point, the recording session for NORTH captured musicians in a flow of inspired, intuitive collaborative music-making, present in the moment and open to meeting one another in improvised musical interludes. NORTH consists of nine pieces of music. Some are relatively more through-composed while others are more improvisatory, taking their point of departure in different modal sound worlds. These ambient sounds, too, are created by Hagberg on his wind instruments and hark back to the way of working featured on his most recent album, “Trust” (Naxos, 2018). The compositions on NORTH are dedicated to various people, places and phenomena (see below). The title of the album is a reference both to the musicians’ countries of origin—Sweden, Norway and Finland—and to the musical approach taken, in which communication, silence and melody are central. The photographer Saul Leiter, too, relied on improvisation in his work, capturing the fleeting but decisive moments when beauty appears right in front of us. We are thus very happy to be able to use one of his iconic images for the cover of NORTH.

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