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Gösta Berlings Saga: Glue Works

Read "Glue Works" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


La Saga di Gösta Berling è un romanzo della scrittrice svedese Selma Lagerlöf, premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1909. Pubblicato nel 1891, è un'opera che rievoca antiche storie e leggende del freddo Värmland (regione della Svezia dove nacque la scrittrice). Ebbene, il titolo di questo geniale racconto, che ispirò nel 1923 al regista e attore finlandese Mauritz Stiller uno dei primi film interpretati da Greta Garbo, è anche il marchio di fabbrica di questo creativo quartetto di sperimentatori, ovviamente, ...

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Album Review

Gösta Berlings Saga: Glue Works

Read "Glue Works" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


With its third release, Sweden's Gosta Berlings Saga articulates a story or two, correlating to the band moniker that is derived from a famous Swedish book, written by Selma Lagerlof, in 1891. It's the band's striking lyricism that rides above the power, grace and fluency and a profoundly balanced set, gushing with climactic theme-building episodes and mutable currents. The ensemble possesses a vast playbook. With a steady stream of cunning arrangements and layered sound-shaping mechanisms, the compositions sustain ...


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