As an artist, musician and award-winning composer for film and performing arts, Maja Långbacka has long created soundscapes for and with others – now she gathers all her experience in a debut album where her own unique vision finally finds a place on her own terms.

Renowned Swedish bassist and composer Lars Danielsson returns with the latest chapter in his celebrated Liberetto series, a project that began in 2012 and has captivated audiences with its blend of jazz, classical, and folk influences.

Swedish rock band from Malmö, started by Stry Terrarie in 1984 (after he left Imperiet). Members: Stry Terrarie, Vocals and Guitar Mikael Vestergren.

The fourth album from Dina Ögon is longer than any they've ever released. If the eponymous debut, the sophomore effort Oas and the latest album Orion all stopped abruptly, the band are now pulling out all the stops and demand our full attention. During a time when the album format has largely been pushed back, privileging peppering of digital single releases of songs without any relation to each other, Dina Ögon are heading in the opposite direction and release a double album.

"The machine for Blues-acoustic and electric" probably refers to
The Artist / Project The Machine for Blues and their music, especially their album "Fest& Flykt" which contains both acoustic and electric blues songs, where the Blues as a genre works equally well on both guitar types but sounds different depending on the instrument, amplifier and style.

Swedish Jazz Christmas music!!!! And not a bunch of covers, no, no, no.

To celebrate 30 years since her debut, Sophie Zelmani is releasing a new compilation album featuring 30 songs from across her career. One of them is brand new: “When Lights Go Down.”

Jessica Pilnäs (born 5 July 1978) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and actress.

Danish singer and composer Anna Kruse has dedicated her work to the Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran (1892-1923). Since 2009, Kruse has released five albums based entirely on Södergran's poems, finding in her work an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Despite a short life and a lack of recognition during her lifetime, Södergran is now considered one of Scandinavia's greatest poets. Working with her trio and guest musicians, Kruse gives the poet's profound and vulnerable verses a new musical dimension, revealing their relevance and depth through her compositions and arrangements.

The word "amateur" originates from the Latin word "amator," meaning "lover" or "admirer". This Latin term is derived from "amare," which means "to love". The French adopted "amateur" from Latin, and the English then borrowed it from French, initially retaining the sense of someone who loves or is devoted to something. Over time, the English usage of "amateur" also developed a meaning related to a lack of professional skill or experience.

Originally released in 1978 and now re-issued on BBE Music, Ångest is an album written and produced by Swedish musician Roger Ekman as an auteur album which tells of Roger's own travailles with the health system in his homeland of Sweden.

I’ve done and recorded a number of improvised and interactive concerts.

Black Truffle is thrilled to present the first ever solo Donso n’goni recording from octogenarian Swedish multi-instrumentalist Christer Bothén. Active in the Swedish jazz and improvisation scene since the 1970s, often heard on bass clarinet, Bothén travelled to Mali in 1971, eventually making his way to the Wassoulou region in the country’s south where he encountered the Donso n’goni, the sacred harp of the hunter caste of Wassoulou society. Though playing the instrument has traditionally been restricted to those who belong to the hunters’ brotherhood, Bothén found an enthusiastic teacher in Brouema Dobia, who, after many months of intensive one-on-one lessons, gave Bothén his blessing to play the instrument both traditionally and in his own style. Returning to Sweden, he would go on to pass on what he had learned to Don Cherry and play the Donso n’goni in a wide variety of inventive settings, including the driving Afro-jazz-fusion of his Trancedance (reissued as BT118).

Pianist Peter Friis Johansson has brought together renowned musicians, including violinist Johan Dalene and soprano Sofie Asplund, for a programme that juxtaposes three generations of Swedish composers. The vocal and chamber works performed here testify to the special place these genres occupy in Swedish art music and to the vitality of musical societies in the early twentieth century, which sparked an interest that went far beyond easily digestible music.

Amanda is now releasing her third album on the Ladybird label. Amanda once again invites the listener to her well-turned and swinging melodic jazz in Swedish, but the listener can also sense a sour self-distance in the middle of the warm and everyday considerations. Amanda Ginsburg sings about the simple in everyday life, the seemingly banal stories that make up a large part of all of our lives, and she does it with gusto.