Anders Hagberg
Lira Magazine (2020 Top List):
“This year’s most suggestive jazz. The music of masterful wind player Anders Hagberg is palpably borne up by precisely this quality of suggestiveness—as if each note carries an image, a feeling, an impulse toward something higher.”
Review in Swedish
OJ Jazz (Recommended Pick):
“Music with spiritual depths…Skillful, passionate performances, beautiful and sublime, with a hint of mystery tucked in tenderly here and there.”
TEXTURA: “Music that exudes feeling, warmth and humanity, and presents small-group interplay at an exceptionally high level” (Canada)
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Opulens magazine for culture and the arts (5/5):
“Musicians of the highest caliber…world-class.
A musical voyager in the borderlands between jazz, folk and chamber music. He (Hagberg) preserves places, memories of people and musical encounters by letting them all live on in his music.”
For the new album, NORTH, Anders has put together a Nordic “dream team” of his new and old musical colleagues. The music for NORTH was recorded over two days in late February 2020, just before the world was paralyzed by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
Taking a handful of compositions as a starting point, the recording session for NORTH captured musicians in a flow of inspired, intuitive collaborative music-making, present in the moment and open to meeting one another in improvised musical interludes.
Anders Hagberg – c-, alto- bass flutes, soprano sax, ambient sounds
Joona Toivanen – piano
Johannes Lundberg – double bass
Helge Norbakken – percussion
