Book of Dreams
A new composition by Jerry Johansson is always a treat; this work makes no exception!
Book of Dreams.
Just as in the dreamy sleep, different themes moves freely around their
own orbits in the very centre of concentration.
Entwining together, phasing, changing shape, echoing further on.
The personal inprint runs like a wonderfully glowing and red dream-thread;
sometimes through the sitar, sometimes through the cello, sometimes
through other instruments.
And just as in the dream, the feeling of time and space dissolves in
this magical journey.
The presence is total, and the wholly and fully assembled borderlines between
composition and improvisation remains hidden secrets within this work.
The underlying constructions and complex nerve system of the seemingly illusory
simplicity.
The borders are diffused and erased; all borders, in where the concentrated
freedom of NOW appears.
A book of dreams; Book of Dreams.
Book of Dreams is released on cd by Kning Disk in November 2008. The performance is a live recording, recorded on the world premiere performance in Hagakyrkan, Göteborg in April 2008. Jerry Johansson; sitar, and a Chamber Ensbemble from Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
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Frölunda Kulturhus, November 23, 2008
Jerry Johansson Oktett
World premiere of Circles and Changes for jazzoctet, composed by Jerry Johansson.
Frölunda Kulturhus, Sunday, November 23.
