Nils Landgren Project live at JazzBaltica 2002

Nils Landgren – tb, voc
Jonas Lindgren – vl
Örjan Högberg – vl
Matthias Helldén – cello
Sebastian Öberg – cello
Christian Olsson – dr, samples
Anders Widmark – p
Lars Danielsson – b
Wolfgang Haffner – dr

recorded live at JazzBaltica 2002, Große Konzertscheune, Salzau, July 6, 2002

1. Speak Low
2. Ghost In This House
3. This Masquerade
4. Nature Boy
5. The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
6. Be There For You
7. Fragile
8. Everything Must Change
9. My Foolish Heart

The music of this concert was originally arranged for the album "Sentimental Journey",released on ACT. "Mr. Redhorn" once again gives way to his sensitive side and undertakes a trip to the land of emotions. "Sentimental Journey" - could there be a more appropriate title for an album from someone who is almost always speeding from one gig to the next, but who would like to shift down a gear? Nils declared that, "After all the hectic tours in this last period, it was simply the right time to do this album. I’ve always liked quiet songs that tell a story. It doesn’t make much difference to me whether I tell that story with words or with my instrument."

A lot of heart went into the making of "Sentimental Journey"; it is a project that is worked down to the smallest detail. What is more boring than a record on which every piece sounds pretty much the same? That’s not the case here. Every song has its own individual arrangement and stands alone in its beauty. Landgren is no friend of simple solutions - he’s not content with getting his ideas ready-made. Instead of using the usual string ensemble for an adequate background, he opted for the original FleshQuartet out of his Swedish homeland. Landgren intoned, "It’s damned hard to translate the ideas you have perpetually running around in your head into sounds, but I never thought it was possible that they could sound better in reality than the way I had painted them in my fantasy. I’ll always be indebted to the Fleshquartet for their contribution to this recording."