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Rigmor
Albumrelease "Come Home"
Released February 2019
Said about the album:
"Technical prowess and distinct personality. (âŠ) She funnels a deluge of new songs into a creative reservoir edged by her fabulous trio.â
* * * * Downbeat, 4 stars (US)
"Von Melancholisch bis beschwingt â Die schwedische JazzsĂ€ngerin Rigmor Gustafsson beherrscht alle Stimmungen.â
Album der Woche. SWR 2 (DE)
"Beeindruckend gelassen und ungemein gefĂŒhlvoll.â
* * * * Jazzthetik, 4 stars (DE)
"Rigmor Gustafsson est une des plus grands vocalistes europĂ©ennes. (âŠ) Si vous aimez les belles voix fĂ©minines, les belles mĂ©lodies et les arrangement soignĂ©s, vous serez servis, ici, car rien nâest laissĂ© au hasard, tout est cadrĂ©, ce qui permet de contempler lâĆuvre, et dâen profiter pleinement.â
* * * * Paris Move, 4 stars, (FR)
"Eine stets sympathische, geschmeidige Vokalistin und Songwriterin."
* * * * Concerto, 4 stars, (AT)
âEtt perfekt album vars elva lĂ„tar signalerar total nĂ€rvaro och fullĂ€ndat musicerande. (âŠ) Come Home Ă€r en fulltrĂ€ff som bör tilltala ocksĂ„ anhĂ€ngare av angrĂ€nsande genrer."
Orkesterjournalen, SE
"Lyssningen Àr en dynamisk och övervÀldigande upplevelse. Ett album att Àlska i detalj och helhet."
* * * * * Nya Wermlands Tidningen, 5 stjÀrnor, SE
(ENGLISH)
Sometimes it's wrong to rush things, even when everything might appear to be completely in place: "Straight after I had released my last album 'When You Make Me Smile' in 2014," says Swedish singer Rigmor Gustafsson, "I knew what I wanted to do next, not least because the inspiration to write new music was coming so rapidly. lt's a mystical and magic feeling when you can hear music inside you that you know you have to write down". But Rigmor Gustafsson is not one to rush in headlong. She prefers to let her ideas mature, to bring them to perfection. So before making "Come Home", she took her time.
From the outset it was clear to Gustafsson that she wanted to record this album with her regular trio of several years. Pianist Jonas Ăstholm, bassist Martin Höper and drummer Chris Montgomery have become "my cornerstones, I simply love to sing with them", she says. And because Gustafsson finds that the music for new songs tends to fall into place before the lyrics, she could not have been happier when Andreas Mattsson, who had alreadyworked for many other Swedish stars, suggested they might collaborate. They worked on three songs together. Even the elegiac âI Think Of You", which revels in some unusual and eniticing blues changes, was far from a simple proposition. The same can be said of the longing and touching title track - which is heard last on the album - it became a little masterpiece. For the other original compositions, Gutafsson placed her trust in a circle of old friends, lyristics with whom she has worked together for a long time; Lina Nyberg, Tomas BĂ€cklund, Anders Lundin and the team of Caroline Cederlöf and Sofia Petterson.
Originally, she had to yed with the idea offeaturing just her own songs on "Come Home", but she had the increasingly strong feeling that she wanted to add some of her favourite songs, all by female songwriters."Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell have always been an enormous inspiration to me,"she says. And so the album begins with a wonderful, highly individual interpretation of Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi". Gustafsson has an extraordinary ability to deploy her technically perfect, captivatingly precise and powerful singing voice in away that is completely natural and always indviidual, and those attributes can be admired at their fullest in Kate Bush's extremely demanding hit song "Wuthering Heights". Perhaps the most unusual track is Gustafsson's version of Tanita Tikaram's "Twist In My Sobriety", with Lisa LĂ„ngbacka's accordion taking the original song's oboe melody.
The memories, the feelings in this album are going to be recognizable to every listener. Songs such as "Winter Doesn't End" or "Enjoy The Day" are sometimes cheerful, sometimes melancholy but invariably captivating and irresistible.The sense that these songs are so true to lite is attributable to the way the album evolved. Alongside her busy concert schedule, Gustafsson was determined to ensure that "ComeHome" should be given all the time that it needed to reach fruition. She was conscious that she could not be satisfied until she had created something new and completely right from the things that had lain dormant within her. "Until I felt that I had truly come home".
Rigmor invites to release concert - there will be two completely unique evenings at Fasching in Stockholm on March 21 and March 22, 2019.
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Albumet slÀpps den 22 februari 2019
(SVENSKA)
Senast Rigmor Gustafsson slĂ€ppte ny musik var 2014 med albumet âWhen You Make Me Smileâ och redan dĂ„ fick hon inspiration till att pĂ„börja nĂ€sta projekt. Albumet âCome Homeâ slĂ€pps den 22 februari och bestĂ„r av nyskriven musik av Rigmor med texter av bl.a. Andreas Mattson, Anders Lundin och Lina Nyberg samt nĂ„gra tolkningar av Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell och Tanita Tikaram.
"NĂ€r Andreas Mattsson, en av mina favoritlyriker, frĂ„gade om jag skulle vara intresserad av ett samarbete, blev jag jĂ€tteglad (och starstruck!). Jag Ă€r oerhört förtjust över det nya samarbetet och lĂ„tarna Andreas skrivit text till men ocksĂ„ givetvis jĂ€tteglad att kunna fortsatta jobba med mina tidigare textförfattareâ berĂ€ttar Rigmor Gustafsson.
De senaste Ă„ren har Rigmor frekvent spelat med Jonas Ăstholm - piano, Martin Höper- bas och Chris Montgomery - trummor. Samarbetet har fördjupats och trion medverkar pĂ„ albumet sĂ„vĂ€l som pĂ„ livekonserterna. PĂ„ albumet medverkar Ă€ven Lisa LĂ„ngbacka- accordeon och Margareta Bengtsson, och musiken (f.ö. endast av kvinnliga kompositörer) har fĂ„tt texter av, förutom nĂ€mnda Andreas, Anders och Lina, Ă€ven Sofia Pettersson, Tomas BĂ€cklund och Caroline Cederlöf (alias Grant). Titeln "Come Home" sĂ€tter ord pĂ„ kĂ€nslan Rigmor Gustafsson hittat i albumet.
âMed det hĂ€r albumet kĂ€nns det som om jag landat och nĂ„tt nĂ„got nytt, men ocksĂ„ nĂ„got som alltid funnits i mig. Det Ă€r svĂ„rt att hitta rĂ€tt ord för att uttrycka den lycka, lĂ€ttnad och tacksamhet jag kĂ€nner med detta album. Det kĂ€nns som att jag kommit hemâ
Rigmor bjuder in till releasekonsert - det blir tvÄ helt unika kvÀllar pÄ Fasching i Stockholm den 21 mars och 22 mars.