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Known as a jazz bassist, Torbjörn Zetterberg mostly steps away from the big strings for a series of multitrack studio compositions on a variety of instruments electronic & acoustic, plus samples and voice, all performed by Zetterberg himself (with Konrad Agnas and Anna Hogberg adding input on a couple of tracks); powerful, urgent, impressive works from a truly well-rounded musician. |
In Stock Shipping Weight: 24.00 units Quantity in Basket: None Log In to use our Wish List ![]() UPC: B0BKQSF6RL Label: Corbett vs. Dempsey Catalog ID: CvsDLP007 Squidco Product Code: 32617 Format: LP Condition: New Released: 2022 Country: USA Packaging: LP Recorded at home and in Studio Clavier, in Stockholm, Sweden, 2020Ð2021, by Torbjorn Zetterberg, except ÕBrevet Fran LillanÕ which was recorded in the zen buddhist monas-tery Zengarden in Finnaker, Sweden. Personnel: Torbjorn Zetterberg-synthesizer, metronome, electric guitar, piano, double bass, electronics, vocals, acoustic guitar, bells, 12 string electric guitar, drum programming, glockenspiel Greta Thunberg-speech Konrad Agnas-drums Anna Hogberg-alto saxophone Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist. Highlight an instrument above and click here to Search for albums with that instrument. ![]() ![]() Artist Biographies: • Show Bio for Torbjorn Zetterberg "Torbjörn Zetterberg (born 10 May 1976) is a Swedish jazz musician (double bass) and composer, known from collaborations with Jonas Kullhammar. Zetterberg attended Södra Latin och Fridhems Folkhögskola in Svalöv but was first recognised as bassist when he studied at Kungliga Musikhögskolan in Stockholm still very young. Here he studied bass under guidance of Jan Adefelt. Soon he joined drummer Fredrik Norén's band together with the saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar. Already at this point one could sense that he would become a prominent figure in the Swedish jazz scene. Now his name is firmly rooted in the vibrant progressive selection as the new jazz generation. He went through a personal crisis and did not record as a bandleader for more than seven years. Zetterberg was uncomfortable with his career and in 2010 he decided to leave the urban life including his bass, and moved to a Buddhist temple. There he resided for a year and still spends half of his time there in 2016. This existential crisis led to the production of the album Och Den Stora Frågan ("And the Big Question" in Swedish) in 2014. Here he collaborated with well known musicians from his earlier career, like the Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva and drummer Jon Fält, known from albums with pianist Bobo Stenson's trio. The album is "charged with joyful urgency, shiny optimism and confident flowing energy, despite the doubts and uncertainties that accompany any creative, artistic process", the reporter of All About Jazz stated in 2014." -Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torbj%C3%B6rn_Zetterberg)1/25/2023 Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography. ^ Hide Bio for Torbjorn Zetterberg • Show Bio for Greta Thunberg "Greta Thunberg, in full Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, (born January 3, 2003, Stockholm, Sweden), Swedish environmental activist who worked to address the problem of climate change, founding (2018) a movement known as Fridays for Future (also called School Strike for Climate)." -Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Greta-Thunberg)1/25/2023 Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography. ^ Hide Bio for Greta Thunberg • Show Bio for Konrad Agnas Konrad Agnas is a Swedish drummer, son of Urban Agnas. He is known for the groups Agnas Bros., Johan Lindstršm Septett, Alberto Pinton Noi Siamo, and Swap Babies. -Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/4677324-Konrad-Agnas)1/25/2023 Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography. ^ Hide Bio for Konrad Agnas • Show Bio for Anna Hogberg Anna Högberg is a saxophonist, a member of Dog Life, Fire! Orchestra -Squidco 1/25/2023Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography. ^ Hide Bio for Anna Hogberg ![]() SIDE A 1. Sketch Of The Path 07:38 2. Upaya 05:28 3. Brevet Fran Lillan 02:00 4. Good Intentions 02:53 5. Random Thoughts 04:49 SIDE B 1. Absorbtion 03:36 2. Opinions Part 1 02:59 3. Opinions Part 2 02:50 4. Determination 02:47 5. And Nothing Happened 10:22 |
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![]() "Torbjörn Zetterberg's new record, Opinions, is not a conventional "solo" outing. It doesn't represent the bassist, composer, and bandleader stepping away from all that to prove his mettle as a virtuoso unaccompanied improvisor. Anyone familiar with Zetterberg's small group recordings needs no confirmation of his prowess. And anyway, strutting his stuff is not his vibe. Certainly not the vibe of this record, where the bassist plays more than bass, a solo venture on which he is occasionally joined by others. What we have on Opinions is something altogether different, nearly impossible to describe except in parts - minimal electronic/maximal prog/eco conceptual/experimental song form. With myriad instruments and multitrack studio composition, painstakingly assembled 2020-22, the LP's tracks have an episodic nature, and in this sense - perhaps this alone - they connect with other parts of the Swedish musician's oeuvre, his propensity for contrasting and juxtaposing sections, which can be deliciously heard on his records with The Torbjörn Zetterberg Hot Five or Torbjörn Zetterberg & Den Stora Frågen (including the latter ensemble's 2019 CD Live, also on CvsD). But Opinions is a stand-alone work, a strange and wondrous personal adventure, a set of landscape miniatures contained in a bottle, each one equally abstract and actual, heady and guttural, melodic and textural, reaching for elements from across the musical map but never as pastiche, rather as deeply submerged influence, meditative result, a splash in icy water after the opium of sauna. Not your everyday solo record. Opinions introduces something particular: a chunk of raw coal buried far below surface that emerges faceted and glisteny."-Corbett vs. Dempsey Torbjörn Zetterberg writes:
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