Artist: Torbjorn Zetterberg, Per Texas Johansson, Konrad Agnas
Album: Orakel
Genre: Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz
Label: Moserobie Music Production
Released: 2019
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Blodspredikan (Zetterberg) - 5:44
- Oraklet I Finnaker (Zetterberg) - 4:36
- Insikt Och Utlopp (Zetterberg) - 3:09
- Jankai (Agnas) - 6:03
- Var Ar Storken? (Zetterberg) - 2:35
- Oraklet Pa Ringvagen (Zetterberg) - 6:54
- Torbjorn Monk (Johansson) - 4:51
- Ursprungspositionen (Johansson) - 5:02
- Vintertid (Zetterberg) - 4:49
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- Personnel:
- Torbjorn Zetterberg - double bass, vocals
- Per Texas Johansson - saxophone, clarinet
- Konrad Agnas - drums
Orakel is one of the albums that you fall in love with already in the first listening and fully understand why. It brings together three Swedish musicians - Per Texas Johansson on the tenor sax and clarinet, double bass player Torbjörn Zetterberg - both have been playing together since the mid-nineties and until Johansson retired to pursue a career as anesthetic nurse more than a decade ago, plus young drummer Konrad Agnas, with whom Johansson played in recent albums of pianist Johan Graden (Bakgrundsmusik, Bakgrundsmusik Records, 2016, and Olägenheter, Moserobie, 2018).
The trio of Johansson, Zetterberg and Agnas swings so naturally, but it has its own kind of swing, free, sharp and seductive and full of clever games. Just listen to the gentle and nuanced conversation of the trio on the opening piece, “Blodspredikan” (In Swedish: blood prophecy), to understand the profound, intimate and immediate connection of these musicians - thicker than blood - that keeps nourishing the powerful and emotional interplay.
You may trace references to John Coltrane melodic phrases in the warm voice of Johansson, the the rich, singing bass of Charlie Haden in Zetterberg playing or enjoy the open senses of time and space in Agnas drumming, but Johansson, Zetterberg and Agnas have their own strong and personal voice as a trio. There is a strong feeling of easiness and balance in the loose flow of this trio, like surfing beautifully between high and spectacular waves but keeping a delicate equilibrium, even when all three stretch their muscles and ride a bit faster on “Var Är Storken” or singing an infectious melody on “Oraklet på Ringvägen”. “Torbjörn Monk” is the piece with the most intriguing title and uses some Monk-ish angular phrases but its peaceful spirit may also reminisces the time that Zetterberg spent in a Buddhist Temple about ten years ago. And only that last, folky “Vintertid” introduces some Nordic melancholia.
Eyal Hareuveni