“A unique world of sound, filled with beautiful, lyrical melodies and suggestive rhythms…It moves from quiet wonder to expressive, explosive exuberance.” (Opulens, 5/5)
With the critically acclaimed album TRUST (2018), Anders Hagberg created a sound world of his own with cinematic storytelling, evocative grooves and desolate melodies. Through the unique Contrabass flute and other wind instruments, Hagberg has created all the rhythmic beats and ambient sounds which are sampled and processed into musical starting points for an intuitive and improvised live performance.
The music for TRUST was created in collaboration with visual art forms such as dance, painting, video and sculpture and has been performed in connection with exhibitions by Louise Bourgeois and Bill Viola, dance performances and at site-specific concerts. (See: Dance, Film, Art)
In 2022, the album MA was released, which examines the importance of space as a musical co-player and was recorded in places with different acoustics. Double bass player Johannes Lundberg appears here on several tracks in close dialogue with Hagberg. Several of the pieces are made in collaboration with visual arts that has been premiered at exhibitions in Sweden and Italy.
Presence, communication and transcending genres are central words in Hagberg’s artistry, and they characterize this solo act, which has been played at festivals in the USA, South Korea, Turkey, Iran, Portugal and Sweden.
This program is offered as a solo/duo performance with options on guest artists:
Anders Hagberg: Concert-, Alto-, Bass- & Contrabass Flute, sopranosaxophone, electronics
Johannes Lundberg: Double Bass, Voice, Zither
Options: guest artists percussion/dancers/visual arts
”An enchanting musician who unites the improvised freedom of jazz with an archaic quality.” UNT
“A fantastic interpretation of waves, winds and the singing of whales.” GT
