In the studio
It is January 14, 2011. I find myself in the legendary Atlantis Studio in Stockholm. It’s 9:30 AM. A kind of low-key activity is underway. Some are warming up, someone is looking through their sheet music while sipping a cup of coffee. There’s casual conversation and joking. Most things are in place. We do a quick soundcheck. I glance out across the studio room. Suddenly it hits me.
The musicians who have been so present in my thoughts while composing the music are now right in front of me. All the work has led to this moment.
Now we’re here. This is when it happens. We’ve rehearsed for a couple of days. Everyone is familiar and comfortable with what’s written. The path and the space in between—we know very little about that. I look out over the room again and let myself be filled with the calm concentration that is slowly spreading. I take a deep breath. The music will go where it wants to go. Here we go!
– Peter Danemo, October 2013
Musicians
Staffan Svensson – trumpet
Mats Äleklint – trombone
Karl-Martin Almqvist – tenor and alto saxophone
Alberto Pinton – baritone saxophone, clarinet, flute
Per-Åke Holmlander – tuba
David Stackenäs – acoustic guitar, and a heavily prepared guitar
Thomas Eby – percussion
Lisbeth Diers – percussion, vocals
Peter Danemo – drums, percussion, eelectronics
1. Elsewhere
2. Opening Scene (Alternate version)
3. Nuances I
4. Face Open, Eyes Closed
5. Nuances II
6. No 1
7. Nuances III
8. The Red Door
9. Nuances IV
All music composed and arranged by Peter Danemo except track 3, 5, 7, 9 by Staffan Svensson, Lisbeth Diers, David Stackenäs and Peter Danemo.
Recorded in Atlantis Studio Stockholm 2011-01-14 by Micke Herrström
Mixed by Peter Danemo, additional mix by Göran Petersson.
Mastered by Thomas Eberger at Stockholm Mastering.
Produced by Peter Danemo
© Kopasetic Productions 2013
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all the beatiful musicians that filled the music with so much soul and spirit.
Special thanks to Staffan Svensson.
Made with support from Bert Levins Foundation for Jazz Music
Bert Levin’s Foundation for Jazz Music was a Swedish cultural foundation established in 2006 through a donation of three million SEK by jazz enthusiast and businessman Bert Levin. The foundation’s purpose was to support and promote Swedish jazz by awarding annual grants and stipends over a ten-year period, from 2006 to 2015.
Bert Levin was a passionate jazz lover and a prominent figure in Swedish business. He was deeply committed to supporting the Swedish jazz scene. He passed away in 2014 at the age of 75.