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En världsnyhet briserade tidigare i höstas, när ACT meddelade att <b>Esbjörn Svenssons</b> änka hittat tidigare okänd solopianomusik som Esbjörn spelat in i hemmet, bara några veckor innan han förolyckades 2008. Nu släpps albumet HOME.S. - en improvisatorisk dröm, signerad en av Sveriges största jazzartister.<br/><br/>The release of HOME.S., the only existing, previously unreleased solo album by pianist Esbjörn Svensson, is nothing less than a sensation. The recordings were made in Svensson's Swedish home - just weeks before his tragic death on June 14, 2008, after which they rested undiscovered on a hard drive in his wife Eva Svensson's personal archive for nearly ten years. HOME.S. consists of nine piano songs, with a combination of written-out fragments and Svensson's unique, melodic style of improvisation. Heartfelt, soulful and deeply personal. A "message smuggled across the border, carried by love, space, time and never-ending creative power." (Eva Svensson)<br/><br/><b>Lira Gillar! </b>"Det hela är oavbrutet intressant. Att höra Esbjörn Svensson efter alla dessa år gör mig både rörd och glad." (Ulf Johansson, Lira)<br/>Esbjörn Svenssons HOME.S. hyllas i världspressen!<br/>"Esbjörn Svensson, utan kompisarna Dan Berglund och Magnus Öström, tar ut svängarna på ett delvis annat sätt. Han låter pianospelet omväxlande svälla ut i något som närmar sig den klassiska musikens pianokonserter, omväxlande vända sig inåt i en vackert jazzig melankoli som, med vetskap om hans bortgång, förlänas en gripande sorgkant." (Dan Backman, SvD)<br/><br/>"Itimacy, serenity and majestic clarity." -Télérama (FR)<br/><br/>"A gift from heaven." -Politiken (DK)<br/><br/>"These inventive deliberations are very much his own, ranging from sublime stillness to eruptive vivaciousness.... A delight" -The Scotsman (GB)<br/><br/>"A real discovery, this solo album by the man who is still regarded as one of the most influential pianists of recent decades.'' -De Volkskrant (NL)<br/><br/>"Buoyant, capricious, sweepingly melodic" -The Guardian (GB)<br/><br/><b>Esbjörn Svenssons "HOME.S." från Actmusic är ett av årets bästa jazzalbum 2022, enligt The Guardian!</b> "Between the mid-1990s and his tragic accidental death in 2008, the Swedish pianist/composer Esbjörn Svensson gave classy piano-trio jazz an enthralling stadium-rock drama and drive. These delicate unaccompanied piano pieces, unreleased until now, show a contrastingly private Svensson - but with just the same vivid imagination and subtlety of touch." (John Fordham, The Guardian)

Lars Danielsson Liberetto: Cloudland 2021 [Digipack / CD]

E.S.T.: 301 2007 (2012) [CD]

Cow Henry: Henry Cow Box Redux [17 CD + DVD + Bok]

Jacob Karlzon / piano, keys, synths & programming<br/>Hans Andersson / bass<br/>Robert Mehmet Ikiz / drums<br/><br/>Unmistakably now one of the best pianists in Europe, Jacob Karlzon's music and personality are possessed of a radiance and vitality that has won audiences worldwide.<br/><br/>But Karlzon wants more - in terms of sound, composition and concept - and doesn't really care much for categories and genre-labeling. Instead, Karlzon chooses to draw tastefully and fervently from the best of two worlds - the openness, curiosity and energy of jazz, and the power, catchiness and the production techniques of pop.<br/><br/><br/>.

"Sex år efter mästerliga "The astounding eyes of Rita" återvänder Anouar Brahem med en mindre omedelbar samtidigt mer varierat vemodig och episkt storslagen dubbel-cd. Så är plattan - titeln betyder "hågkomst", "minnen" - en mångårig meditation över den arabiska våren som ju började, och dessvärre endast överlevde, i hans hemland Tunisien.... Bitvis oroande dissonant och melankoliskt gripande, bitvis överjordiskt vackert och utmanande. Även efter 30-talet genomlyssningar." <br/>Örjan Abrahamsson, DN (betyg 5/5)

LTD/DIGISLEE- INCL. 14 POSTCARDS & POLAROIDS / STICKER<br/><br/>On a wall of Arcade Fire's New Orleans studio, photos map the territory of its sixth album, WE. On one side, images capture what ails us - a crushing boot, a wounded man, a child staring blankly at a screen. On the other side, joyous family pictures cluster. In the center, there's a photograph of the cover of "We," the 1921 sci-fi novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin, showing a crystalline skyscraper in which the citizens of a dystopia live under constant surveillance.<br/><br/>With an album already written, Arcade Fire started recording in February, 2020, but were interrupted by the start of the pandemic. Win & Régine spent the rest of that year and most of the next writing even more songs. "It was the longest we've ever spent writing, uninterrupted, probably ever" Butler said. Still, the resulting album - produced by Nigel Godrich, Win & Régine - is a concise 40 minutes long. Its first side, "I," is about our troubles; its second side, "WE," is about our love for one another.