Gustaf Ljunggren & Emil de Waal
Emil de Waal (drums, percussion, electronic effects)
Gustaf Ljunggren (keyboards, guitars, effects)
For this 2018 session, it’s just the duo of de Waal and Ljunggren, and they go off in a very different direction. Gone are the boisterous melodies and swinging tempos of New Orleans via Denmark. Instead, the duo navigates a path that takes them through folk, electronica and indie-pop musics. The duo runs the sing-song melody of “Skomakarskeppet” through a cyclical pattern that accentuates both its addictive and minimalist qualities. There’s how the electric sizzle and pop of “Krathuset” is juxtaposed over a resolute drone, creating a tempo that is both lively and meditative. “Strung Hi” has a countryside tranquility, as if sunlight settling in over wide open fields of green… an infusion of energy into a trance state. It sounds nothing like what’s been featured previously from these two, and yet present throughout every moment of this lovely recording is that very same warmth and intimacy, and that same feeling of intoxication.
This duo has been collaborating for twenty years and counting. Their new album is more reason to hope it never ends.
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Gustaf Ljunggren & Emil de Waal
Saturday 02 November 2019
Live session at 5pm – Free Entrance
Emil de Waal (drums, percussion, electronic effects)
Gustaf Ljunggren (keyboards, guitars, effects)
For this 2018 session, it’s just the duo of de Waal and Ljunggren, and they go off in a very different direction. Gone are the boisterous melodies and swinging tempos of New Orleans via Denmark. Instead, the duo navigates a path that takes them through folk, electronica and indie-pop musics. The duo runs the sing-song melody of “Skomakarskeppet” through a cyclical pattern that accentuates both its addictive and minimalist qualities. There’s how the electric sizzle and pop of “Krathuset” is juxtaposed over a resolute drone, creating a tempo that is both lively and meditative. “Strung Hi” has a countryside tranquility, as if sunlight settling in over wide open fields of green… an infusion of energy into a trance state. It sounds nothing like what’s been featured previously from these two, and yet present throughout every moment of this lovely recording is that very same warmth and intimacy, and that same feeling of intoxication.
This duo has been collaborating for twenty years and counting. Their new album is more reason to hope it never ends.
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