https://soundcloud.com/hagbergmusic/sufi-live-in-teheranOn the album, TRUST, Anders takes his creative approach to the flute to a new level with cinematic sounds, solitary melodies, and evocative grooves.
The Contrabass Flute is one of many amazing colors in a surround sound performance that has been given at openings, art exhibitions, concerts, dance performances and caves.

AH: Alto-, Bass- & Contrabass Flute, sopranosax, mouth harp, electronics
Åke Linton: Live surround sound

Options: guestartists percussion/bass/dance

REVIEWS TRUST:
“Anders Hagberg creates 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)

“intense and enormously virtuosic…majestic, magnificent weight…breathtakingly beautiful, a quiet reflection on the cosmos…magical…” (Kulturbloggen, 5/5)

“Anders Hagberg suffuses his performance with a captivating intimacy and strong sense of presence…infinitely creative” (Lira)

“…a simply superb flautist who coaxes from his instruments every scintilla of their register, often with highly suggestive results.” (Kulturdelen 4/5)

”Organic! Exciting! A stream you just want to float in … suggestive jazz.” (OJ)

“Hagberg has a unique voice on his instruments, blending Eastern inspiration with the Scandinavian sounds in a wonderful way” (Tor Hammerø)

“Anders Hagberg, has repeatedly demonstrated his creative breadth as a musician. If any doubters remain, let them listen to his new album, Trust, where he uses a whole bevy of flutes, including a contrabass flute, plus soprano sax and percussion to create suggestive timbres and exciting rhythms.” Upsala Nya Tidning (5/5)

”Hagberg is a wizard at handling all the different flutes”. Salt Peanuts

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Anders made all the music for the album using his many flutes, a soprano sax, and some percussion. The unique contrabass flute plays a key role. Anders used it to create all the rhythmic grooves and ambient sounds in the music.

The music for TRUST was originally created in interaction with visual artforms such as dance, pictures, video, and sculpture. It has been performed at exhibitions of art by Louise Bourgeois and Bill Viola, for the dance production RED at the Nordic Watercolor Museum.

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Hagberg & Landgren explore and develop improvisations taking their point of departure in Gregorian chant, chorales, contemporary music and their own original compositions. An encounter between two improvisation traditions. Anders and Johannes also play together with choirs.

Reviews Where you Go:
LIRA MAGASIN

”Det är den stora rörelsen, det vida gränsöverskridandet, den melodiska finstämdheten, som gör detta njutbart…En imponerande spännvidd.”

Orkesterjournalen
”Det är andaktsfullt, kontemplativt men också sublimt spooky. Transcendens är ett centralt begrepp som…får relevans i det gränsöverskridande mötet mellan Hagberg och Landgren”

Kulturbloggen
”Magiskt är bara förnamnet!…”

Kulturdelen
”Man vet aldrig riktigt vad som ska komma härnäst. Men man kan vara tryggt förvissad om att de här två musikerna ser till att det som kommer också kommer att låta bra. ”

In Melodic Melange, Anders has gathered some of his favorite musicians in a breathless meeting between Scandinavian jazz and Arabic maqam.

Anders Hagberg – flute, alto & bass flutes, soprano sax
Ahmad al Khatib – oud
Johannes Lundberg – double bass, voice
Lisbeth Diers – percussion, voice

The collaboration between Anders and Palestinian oud virtuoso Ahmad al Khatib has resulted in the album Melodic Melange and tours in Scandinavia, Estonia and S.Korea.

They have also made several tours in India with artists from Bombay and Bangalore with whom they have made the album Ley Lines.

Connecting Worlds is a platform for musical collaborations between genres and cultures.

In 2016  a new serie of concerts was launched in Gothenburg and West Sweden, proceeding in 2017-2018 with tours and new collaborations.

Enjoy videos with Melodic Melange from Vara Concert House october 2016.

In 2014  Connecting Worlds created new music for the four musicians and a string ensemble.

A unique synthesis, where the freedom of jazz blends with melodies and rhythms of the world. Melodic lyricism, dynamic improvisations and enchanting soundscapes!

With the starting point in Jazz, the quartet creates a wide spectrum of sounds with unusual instrumentations and influences from Nordic and Oriental music. The musicians have played with artists such as Steve Swallow, Carla Bley, Bob Mintzer, Billy Cobham, John Tchicai, Marilyn Mazur e.g.

Anders Hagberg – flutes, bass flutes, soprano sax
Johannes Lundberg – double bass, vocals
Joona Toivanen – piano, prepared piano
Göran Kroon – drums, percussion

DANCE, SELECTED WORKS

Anders most recent collaboration with dance is that with legendary Indian dancer and choreographer ASTAD DEBOO. Watch a performance from Stockholm in May 2016.

In connection with Embla dance he has been composing music for several performances for children that have been touring extensively all over the Nordic region as well as the acknowledged site specific performance Traces of Rock Carvings.
 As an artist in residence with choreographer Anna Wennerbeck at the Nordic Water Colour Museum he created RED inspired by gouaches of Louise Bourgeois.

FILM, SELECTED WORK
His work with documentary films with Agaton Film include Stone carvers about Nordic pre-history and War against Disease about the work of photographer Lennart Nilsson.

ART, SELECTED WORK
Anders´work with visual arts include openings concerts for exhibitions with video artist Bill Viola, painter/sculpturer Louise Bourgeois and a number of other artists.

In 2010 a unique collaboration was made with balafon player Moussa Hema from Burkina Faso The project was called Eartsongs Afrique.

AH – woodwinds
Stefan Blomquist – keyboards
Ola Bothzén/Micke Nilsson – percussion.
Moussa Hema – balafon, ngoni, vocals