We are two musicians from different musical backgrounds who both use improvisation as an expressive tool. For this album, we chose music with foundational, archetypal melodies: Swedish folk chorales, Gregorian chant and simple ballads. Our collaboration is characterized by exploratory encounters: between traditions, genres, approaches to improvisation, and instrumental timbres, which we combine within unexpected melodic contexts. Anders Hagberg’s artistic research on musical states, sound and silence has influenced our music. In particular, the tension between silence and sound became a central feature of this project. Music breathes – in space.

Tracklist:
1. Vara ingenting (To be nothing)
2. I hoppet sig min frälsta själ förnöjer (In hope my soul redeemed to bliss unending)
3. Sänd ditt ljus (Send forth your light)
4. Giðða
5. Där du går (Where you go)
6. Du som (You who)
7. Ljus (Light)
8. Hjärtdjur (Herztier)
9. Gammal fäbodpsalm (Old pastoral hymn)
10. Vara (To be)
11. Bjurum improvisus
12. Ack min själ (Oh, my soul)
13. Jesu, meine Freude
14. Du som gick före oss (You who passed before)
15. Vara ingenting (To be nothing)

Anders Hagberg: flute, bass flute, contrabass flute, soprano saxophone, Offerdalspipa (traditional whistle), Matusi flute (membrane flute inspired by the Chinese dizi)

Johannes Landgren: French Romantic organ, chest organ, Bjurum organ (seventeenth-century with meantone tuning), piano