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Lina Nyberg & Esbjörn Svensson - Close (1993)

2011-03-03T09:36:06Z

Lina Nyberg & Esbjörn Svensson - Close (1993)


1.Little Unhappy Boy (Curtis Lewis) 
2.Close (L. Nyberg)                                     play
3.Here, There and Everywhere (Lennon / McCartney)       play
4.Never Let Me Go (J. Livingstone / R. Evans) 
5.In Your Own Sweet Way (D. Brubeck) 
6.You Can Have Him (I. Berlin) 
7.Waiting (E. Svensson / L. Nyberg) 
8.Ruby My Dear (T. Monk / S. Swisher) 
9.I Wish I Didn´t Love You So (F. Loesser) 
10.You Let My Love Grow Cold (J. Robinson) 
11.Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most (Wolfe / Landesman) 
12.I Hadn't Anyone 'til You (R. Noble) 
13.May I Come In (M. Fischer / J. Segal) 
14.Waltz For the Lonely Ones (E. Svensson / L. Nyberg)

Personnel: 
Lina Nyberg (vocals); 
Esbjorn Svensson (piano).

Recorded at the Swedish Broadcasting Corp. Studio 12, Gothenburg, Sweden on August 28 & 29, 1993.

Lina Nyberg is one of Sweden’s most creative and interesting jazz singers. For over 10 years she has been attracting consistent and widespread attention in Sweden. In April of 2003 her groundbreaking CD “Time” was released, with Lina’s own compositions performed by her exciting new band: Mathias Landaeus on fender Rhodes, piano, and live-electronics, Torbjörn Zetterberg on electric bass, and Sebastian Notini on drums. This CD contains influences from Brazilian music with the main focus nevertheless on progressive Nordic jazz: ”Twelve songs, one for every month. Lina Nyberg sings like twelve angels; both her songs and her voice change shape…among the most beautiful and, with modesty, most dramatic I have heard for a very, very long time, regardless of the instrument” Ingmar Glanzelius, Dagens Nyheter

Lina Nyberg, född 27 februari 1970 i Stockholm, är en svensk jazzsångerska och kompositör. Lina Nyberg debuterade 1993 med albumet Close tillsammans med pianisten Esbjörn Svensson. Hon har sedan dess givit ut tolv album med olika konstellationer i eget namn och turnerat runt om i världen. År 2007 kom Brasil Big Bom, där Lina Nyberg tillsammans med saxofonisten Magnus Lindgren arrangerade brasiliansk musik för ett mindre storband. Hösten 2008 och våren 2009 gjorde hon en egen show och firade 20-årsjubileum som artist på Teaterstudio Lederman i Stockholm. Sveriges Radio spelade in konserten, vilken gavs ut 2009 under namnet The Show. Lina Nyberg är gift med Fredrik Ljungkvist.

Quando una voce e un pianoforte si incontrano, se la voce è quella di una giovanissima Lina Nyberg e il piano quello di Esbjörn Svensson, possiamo senz’altro parlare di un disco con forte personalità. Registrato nel 1993, “Close” è la sintesi di un incontro tra la all’epoca ventitreenne cantante e il pianista svedese, purtroppo prematuramente scomparso nel 2008, ancora in un ruolo di sideman alla vigilia della fondazione del suo Esbjörn Svensson Trio. Il disco, destinato al mercato svedese, palesa subito queste due forti personalità che dialogano su pezzi jazz (“Never Let Me Go”, “Ruby My Dear”, “In Your Own Sweet Way), brani di altra estrazione musicale (“Here, There and Everywhere” di Lennon/McCartney) e composizioni originali, come la title track, “Close”, a firma Lina Nyberg, o “Waiting” e “Waltz For The Lonely Ones” di Esbjörn Svensson. Lina Nyberg rivela non solo intraprendenza interpretativa, ma anche padronanza e controllo dello svolgimento musicale nelle sue componenti fondamentali: melodia, armonia, ritmo, senza sottovalutare alcun elemento, piegando la voce al contenuto musicale e testuale di ogni brano e rivelando una profonda conoscenza di alcune delle voci che hanno segnato la storia del canto in differenti generi, da Bessie Smith a Ray Charles ad esempio. Lo strumento voce viene suonato ora con dolcezza ora con aggressività, senza tralasciare mai il legame di coerenza emotiva tra suono e concetto espresso dal testo cantato. Esbjörn Svensson qui, pur se nel ruolo di accompagnatore, si rivela già come musicista di contrasti. Mai banale nel seguire le evoluzioni vocali della Nyberg, snocciola frasi che denotano l’interesse per vari generi, dal jazz puro al pop al rock al funk, in un discorso musicale in cui il sideman è soprattutto compositore. Le alternanze voce-strumento sono ottime, in un interplay che ha il sapore della naturalezza, in cui percepiamo entrambe le personalità, ben attente ad evitare inopportune invasioni l’uno nel territorio dell’altra, con il raro dono della delicatezza e del rispetto reciproco, lungi dal fare sterile mostra di sé.

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Lina Nyberg - Aerials (2017)

2019-09-25T15:00:19Z

Lina Nyberg - Aerials (2017)

CD 1:
1	Fly Me To The Moon (4:45)
2	Tico Tico No Fuba (5:13)
3    Where Flamingos Fly (5:38)
4    A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (7:20)
5    Bye Bye Blackbird (5:50)
6    Skylark (3:56)
7    Migration (6:51)
8    Nightbird (4:41)

CD 2:
1    The Benu Bird (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (3:43)
2    Everyone Sang (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (4:29)
3    Chayka (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (5:07)
4    The Phoenix (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (4:11)
5    The Kite (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (4:16)
6    Like A Sick Eagle (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (4:24)
7    The Electra (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (5:51)
8    Murmuration (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (9:29)
9    Motacilla Alba (Feat. Vindla String Quartet) (4:36)

Lina Nyberg - vocals
Cecilia Persson - piano (CD 1)
David Stackenäs - guitar (CD 1)
Josef Kallerdahl - double bass, electric bass (CD 1)
Peter Danemo - drums, percussion, live electronics (CD 1)
Vindla String Quartet:
Caroline Karpinska - violin; Maria Bergström - violin; Elina Nygren - viola; Gerda Holmquist - cello (CD 1: 1, 7, CD 2)
Cappella Catharinae Choir (CD 1:7, CD 2: 9)

There are very few musicians who dare to expand their artistic vision with every new project as Swedish vocalist-songwriter-composer Lina Nyberg. Aerials, is the her second installment in a trilogy of albums that offers her unique perspective about the world, the elements and the music itself. Nyberg began the trilogy with the double album The Sirenades (Hoob, 2014), that featured her songs composed for her quintet and the Norrbotten Big Band, sketching poetic images of cyber-seas, monsters and waves. On Aerials Nyberg sings of avians—real and mythological birds—and raising her glance a bit higher and adding images of pilots, winds and astronauts. The aerial perspective gives Nyberg a musical look on our daily dilemmas, lives, relationships and our fragile planet from a distance. A highly personal perspective that may be more objective but also filled with solicitude.

Aerials is again a double album. Its first part, Space, was recorded live with Nyberg band—pianist Cecilia Persson, guitarist David Stackenäs, bassist Josef Kallerdahl and drummer Peter Danemo, at Kapellet (The Chapel) in Stockholm. This album feature looser, highly personal adaptations of jazz standards that relate to birds and images of aviation as "Fly Me to the Moon," "Where Flamingos Fly" and "Bye Bye Blackbird." Nyberg delivers these timeless standards with amused-playful elegance, commanding ideas of a clever storyteller but also a reserved sentimentality, leaving a lot of room for improvisations by her quintet musicians. Nyberg ongoing collaboration for the last decade with Stackenäs, known mostly for his free-improvised meetings with such innovativors as saxophonists Mats Gustafsson and Martin Küchen, or pianist Sten Sandell, cements the open approach to these songs. This approach is best demonstrated on their moving duo on "Skylark" or the the quintet searching, free arrangement of "Migration," with lyrics partly inspired by a poem "Motacilla Alba" by Joan Walsh Anglund, somehow summarizing Nyberg aesthetics: "I don't sing because i have an answer, I sing because i have a song."

The second part, titled as the album, fulfills a lifelong, ambitious dream of Nyberg to compose music for a string quartet. She wrote few segments for a string quartet featured on one of So Many Stars (Prophone, 1996) but on that album the string quartet played side by side with jazz musicians. Now, when asked to prepare a commissioned work by the Swedish National Radio music channel (P2) Nyberg wrote music and lyrics for her as a vocalist and the versatile Malmö-based, all-female Vindla String Quartet. The nine, highly-notated original compositions, only five with lyrics, blend beautifully Nyberg vision of contemporary music with a touch of rhythmic, jazz songs.

Nyberg arrangement of Siegfried Sassoon poem "Everyone Sang" is simply compelling—full of inventive ideas, delivering its profound, suggestive poetic images with irresistible commanding elegance. Her tribute to Soviet pioneer cosmonaut Valentina "Chayka" Tereshkova if filled with touching images of innocence and wonder of one who observed Earth from space. Her arrangement of Charles Ives "Like a Sick Eagle" (with lines taken from John Keats' sonnet "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles") is faithful for its fragile, compassionate of spirit, and her homage to pilot Amelia Earhart, "The Electra," after Earhart plane name, "sings away" any fear of flying. The concluding reprisal of the poem ""Motacilla Alba," with the Cappella Catharinae Choir charges the poems lines: "I fly and I cry for the brothers / At flight from war and terror" with an urgent, action-calling theme.

Masterful, imaginative and inspiring. ---Eyal Hareuveni, allaboutjazz.com

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