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Lyder Røed - New Album - Telling It Like It Is
Tradition is often treated as something musicians must either preserve or escape. On "Telling It Like It Is", Lyder Røed Quintet chooses a third course: inhabiting it fully, without apology, disguise or historical distance.
The album continues the direction established on 2024’s Upside Down, drawing openly from the Blue Note sound, hard bop, post-bop, Latin jazz and the melodic directness of players such as Lee Morgan, Nat Adderley and Roy Hargrove. Yet the quintet does not approach this music as period reconstruction. For these musicians, jazz history is not sealed behind glass. It exists alongside the present, immediately accessible through records, streaming services, playlists and the accumulated listening of a generation for whom musical eras no longer arrive in strict chronological order.
RYMDEN - New Single - Five Steps From A Dream
Written by Magnus Öström, “Five Steps From A Dream” opens in a hush of brushed drums, falling like rain around gently wandering piano chords. The music seems to hover at the edge of sleep rather than enter it fully, moving through small cascades, ascending figures and quiet shifts of colour. Delicate without becoming fragile, it captures RYMDEN in a reflective mood, tracing the distance between waking thought and dream.
Rohey Taalah & Martin Myhre Olsen - New Album - Homage to Legends
Voice and saxophone are close relations. Both begin with breath; both can carry melody, shape language, bend pitch, roughen into texture or open into pure sound. Yet they are rarely left entirely alone together. Without piano, bass or drums, there is nowhere for either musician to disappear—and no predetermined division between soloist and accompaniment.
On Homage to Legends, vocalist Rohey Taalah and saxophonist Martin Myhre Olsen embrace that exposure. Working with voice, saxophones and occasional percussion, they seek orchestral breadth through the most economical of means. There are no overdubs, loop pedals, harmonisers, or layers of studio multiplication. Everything depends upon the range of sound two musicians can create in the moment, and upon the space they are willing to leave around it.
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