Jerry Johansson

Next Door Conversation Next Door Conversation


All music are composed and arranged by Jerry Johansson.
Recorded live December 5, 2006 at Konserthuset, Göteborg, Sweden.
Engineered by Rune Johansson. Mixed by Jerry Johansson.
* String Quartet from Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
Cover photography by Dan Fröberg/Cecilia Bergman. Design by Mattias Nilsson.

Kning Disk, KD038, 2007.

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Jerry Johansson´s second composition for sitar, tambura and string quartet is called Next Door Conversation. This time, a santour is also added to the musical texture. Next Door Conversation is a new extended work, in where ancient Indian traditions of the classical raga music assimilates together with the Swedish heritage of folk music; but also incorporates the knowledge and understanding of contemporary classical music. Musical textures extends, re-shapes and changes places; in Jerry Johansson´s exquisite ways of thinking and blending our ancient musical heritage from both East and West, a totally new and unique music emerges. A music in where traces remembrances from then and now, Scandinavia and Asia assimilates together to a totally natural music that is all Jerry Johansson´s.
The performance is a live recording, recorded on the world premiere performance in Konserthuset, Göteborg in December 2006. Jerry Johansson; sitar, a String Quartet from Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Camilla Wahlberg; tambura and Farivar Khosravi; santour.