EMIL STRANDBERG - Prosodier
Haphazard Music CD HAP2001
Emil Strandberg, trumpet & piccolo trumpet; Johan Graden, piano & pump organ; Mauritz Agnas, cello; Pär-Ola Landin, bass
Recorded 18/19th April 2020
Haphazard Music is the four named musicians above, who together and individually search for diverse ways to write, play, listen to and reflect on music.
Prosody (Prosodier) is a term from linguistics which refers to elements of speech such as intonation, rhythm, stress and tone – all equally applicable to sounds generally and music in particular.
The quartet is newly founded along with the label and this is its debut album. Its front cover contains a booklet of related poems, nicely, but sadly, in Swedish.
Each of the pieces carries a profoundly lyrical air and while their jazz ancestries are audible, their presentation is somewhat absorbed and understated. The lucidity of Strandberg's trumpet breaches the complex, gentle though spirited interplay between the music and the quartet.
The musicians’ reflections, their penetrating conciliations, create a subtle music which leaves space for our contemplation and imagination to clarify their wiles and to fix the drama as it is formed. The whole is enthusiastically welcomed as an arresting cluster of serenely structured arrangements. They draw a subtly shaded, musical sketch of soft and sensitive flurries of sound.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
Haphazard Music CD HAP2001
Emil Strandberg, trumpet & piccolo trumpet; Johan Graden, piano & pump organ; Mauritz Agnas, cello; Pär-Ola Landin, bass
Recorded 18/19th April 2020
Haphazard Music is the four named musicians above, who together and individually search for diverse ways to write, play, listen to and reflect on music.
Prosody (Prosodier) is a term from linguistics which refers to elements of speech such as intonation, rhythm, stress and tone – all equally applicable to sounds generally and music in particular.
The quartet is newly founded along with the label and this is its debut album. Its front cover contains a booklet of related poems, nicely, but sadly, in Swedish.
Each of the pieces carries a profoundly lyrical air and while their jazz ancestries are audible, their presentation is somewhat absorbed and understated. The lucidity of Strandberg's trumpet breaches the complex, gentle though spirited interplay between the music and the quartet.
The musicians’ reflections, their penetrating conciliations, create a subtle music which leaves space for our contemplation and imagination to clarify their wiles and to fix the drama as it is formed. The whole is enthusiastically welcomed as an arresting cluster of serenely structured arrangements. They draw a subtly shaded, musical sketch of soft and sensitive flurries of sound.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
