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Hemligheter på v​ä​gen

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lyrics by Tomas Tranströmer
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lyrics by Jenny Willén
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lyrics by Tomas Tranströmer
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lyrics by Tomas Tranströmer
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Blind fear 04:24
lyrics by Karin Johansson (English) / Jenny Willén (Swedish)
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lyrics by Tomas Tranströmer
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lyrics by Tomas Tranströmer
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lyrics by Tomas Tranströmer
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lyrics by Karin Johansson

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Swedish pianist Karin Johansson has set music to some of Tomas Tranströmer’s poems for her band ORD. Vocals, horns, and bass converse freely around the piano. Some parts are free improvisations, often with a prepared piano.
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Karin Johansson – piano, prepared piano, composition and arrangements
Jenny Willén – vocals, voice
Niclas Rydh – trombone
Gunnel Samuelsson – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
Hasse Westling – double bass

ORD was formed a few years ago, and 'Hemligheter på vägen' (Secrets on the way) is the band’s first album.

There is a text of Tranströmer’s from the short memoir 'Memories Look at Me' that has inspired Karin particularly for this album:
"I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.
The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones.”
I look at the photo of the album cover. It pictures a girl in a doorway. She looks straight into the camera. It is an image of Karin Johansson when ten years old.

We carry all our different ages and memories with us, they walk next to us each day, but there are gaps between moments of recognition. Karin Johansson and her four fellow musicians are listening in with a finely tuned presence. They help us on the receiving end to stop, see, and simply listen. And I can’t help wondering what the poet and pianist Tranströmer would have been thinking or feeling if he had been able to sit in on their conversation.

Aside from Tranströmer, Karin Johansson has set music to two of her own texts as well as one by Jenny Willén:
Blind fear - Eng lyrics by Karin Johansson/Swe lyrics by Jenny Willén,
Just a second from now - lyrics by Karin Johansson,
Som att du sovit länge - lyrics by Jenny Willén.

'Hemligheter på vägen' will be released on CD and digitally on World Poetry Day, 21 March 2022, and on vinyl later this coming spring.
World Poetry Day is founded by the UN organisation UNESCO to support the freedom of speech and the human right to write and create.

Karin Johansson may also be heard in the duo with Lisen Rylander Löve; in Quagmire with Nina de Heney and Henrik Wartel; in the duo with Finn Loxbo; Jonny Wartel 4; and in many other collaborations.
/press release by Jenny Svenberg Bunnel, illustrator and artist

Recorded by Oskar Johnsen Rydh.
Mixed by Linus Andersson and Karin Johansson, Elementstudion, Gothenburg.
Mastered by Hans Olsson Brookes, Svenska Grammofonstudion, Gothenburg.
Cover design by Henrik Persson.
Cover photo: Karin Johansson when 10 years old.

Band photo by Michael Dimle.
Inside piano (detail from) photo by Christer Männikus.

Thanks to Monica Tranströmer.

Release date 21 March, 2022.

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released March 18, 2022

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