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Emil Brandqvist Trio:
Emil Brandqvist: drums, percussion, glockenspiel, synthesizer
Tuomas Turunen: piano, harmonium, celesta, wurlitzer
Max Thornberg: double bass

Guests:
Lisa Langbacka: accordion
Martin Brandqvist: Flute, Bass Clarinet
Johan Asplund: Flugelhorn

Editor's Info:
The waiting is over: “Entering The Woods”, the 5th album by the Emil Brandqvist Trio, is finished. There’s no doubt that this formation is among the few piano trios worldwide that have played their way up to a continent-spanning listening audience in recent years by constantly developing the band’s very own, highly recognizable sound and advancing it further. More than 10 million streams for individual songs! have catapulted the trio to vanguard rankings. In North America they crop up on the playlists displaying major radio audience figures, in Japan they’re a must on countless compilations as a prime example of today’s Scandinavian Jazz, and in Germany their last album ranked No. 3 on the national jazz charts. ECHO award nominations and an appearance on the Longlist of German Record Critics have provided further proof of their large-scale acceptance. Most recently the greatest accaim has come not only on sold out club tours but at equally acclaimed German jazz and classical music festivals such as Movimentos Wolfsburg, Palatia Jazz, Elbjazz Hamburg, the Beethovenfest in Bonn, or at Jazz Baltica on the shores of the Baltic Sea. At a live appearance on “Aspekte”, a cultural TV show on the German ZDF national network, they were announced as “the loveliest flower in the piano trio genre.”

The trio’s secret lies in the rare gift of having evolved such an inimitable sound marked by the finely sculpted soundscapes of Emil Brandqvist on drums and the at times sensitively dotted and dashed, other times rolling like a juggernaut neo-classicism of Tuomas A. Turunen, a pianist from Finland who also recently recorded a highly expressive solo CD for SKIP (released as SKP 9139 “Ornaments Of Time”). The stoically driving force emitted via Max Thornberg’s playing on double bass lends the trio unmistakeable body and weight. As usual, Emil Brandqvist himself is res.......
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