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Rymden: Today May Be Tomorrow

Read "Today May Be Tomorrow" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
October 28, 2026

This is Rymden's fourth studio album, and it finds the leading Scandinavian jazz trio refining rather than radically reinventing the formula established on their earlier releases. Norwegian pianist Bugge Wesseltoft (pronounced boo-geh) helped shape the Scandinavian jazz sound, notably through his New Conception of Jazz project (Jazzland Recordings, 1996). He is joined by bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Oström, the rhythm section of the Esbjorn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.), whose fusion of jazz, classical music, rock and techno helped propel ...

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Rymden: Space Sailors

Read "Space Sailors" reviewed by Gareth Thompson

by Gareth Thompson
September 13, 2020

Outer space and cosmic jazz have long been a match made beyond heaven. The latest act throwing their hat into Saturn's rings is the excellent Norwegian band Rymden, featuring keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft. The trio has clearly boned up on Sun Ra and Lonnie Liston Smith, but rockier influences are present too from the likes of Hawkwind, The Doors, Soft Machine, even Throbbing Gristle, with Marc Moulin's acid jazztronics in there as well. Closer to home, you can hear ...

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Rymden: Reflections And Odysseys

Read "Reflections And Odysseys" reviewed by Tyran Grillo

by Tyran Grillo
March 29, 2020

Reflections & Odysseys gifts to the listening world the debut of pianist Bugge Wesseltoft's new trio—called Rymden—with bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Öström. The rhythm section, best known as part of e.s.t. (led by the late Esbjörn Svensson), serves Wesseltoft with fresh purpose, at once grateful for what came before and eager to chart maps ahead. It's a dual aesthetic embodied not only in the album's title, but also in its approach to crafting sound as a realm in ...

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Rymden: Reflections And Odysseys

Read "Reflections And Odysseys" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
February 8, 2019

Is it mere coincidence, or fate, that Bugge Wesseltoft and the late Esbjo Svensson were both born in the same quarter of 1964? More to the point, Wesseltoft, having effectively merged his New Conception of Jazz with the two surviving members of Svensson's e.s.t., has now hatched a veritable Scandinavian supergroup. The formation of Rymden is a welcome move since it provides an excellent vehicle for Wesseltoft and the virtuoso rhythm section of bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Öström. ...