Magnus Öström - A Room For Travellers CD
Magnus Öström - A Room For Travellers CD
Magnus Öström Group
- A Room For Travellers -
Drummer and composer Magnus Öström and his band are finally back with a new
album, his fourth to date.
The album, A Room For Travellers, is both about the traveller’s journey through
the world but equally about a journey inward, the journey within. Magnus’s hope
is that for the listener the album can become a space to travel to, and to travel in,
an infinite room. Both a little escapism from all the terrible things happening in
the world right now, but also a journey inward to understand oneself and one's
surroundings on a deeper level.
But above all, the album is about being present in the present and seeing nature,
the oceans and our surroundings as part of ourselves and thereby hopefully
becoming humbler and more careful with what we have, and aware of what we
can lose.
The album, which clocks in at 40 minutes, contains 6 tracks, with a couple of songs
that are more like suites than a single song. With titles such as On The High In
My Life and All Those Years, the album is mindful of both the present and the
past.
In addition, the record is about the great importance nature and natural resources
has to us.
In titles such as FlowFly, Pacific, Oceans, and Safe And Sound, Magnus pays
tribute to, and points towards, the most important thing we have on our planet,
freshwater and the oceans, which unfortunately we are slowly destroying and
poisoning with our excessive consumerist lifestyles.
On this album, Magnus reunites his group, namely:
ANDREAS HOURDAKIS – Electric & acoustic guitars
DANIEL KARLSSON – Piano & keyboards
THOBIAS GABRIELSON – Bass & synthbass
MAGNUS ÖSTRÖM – Drums, percussion, voices, additional keyboards
The album A Room For Travellers will be released on May 5th by Jazzland
Recordings.
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