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POP Ryktet om country är aningen överdrivet. Per Gessle lät de facto minst lika mycket country i ”Timmar av iver” eller ”Tända en sticka till” på sitt självbetitlade första soloalbum 1983 som i någon av de här åtta Nashville-inspelade låtarna.

Formed by vibrant Colombian singer Martha Acosta and bass guitarist/MD Don Fiora (Javier Fioramonti) for the Hogmanay festival in Edinburgh 2001. Manteca proved to be at the cutting edge of the Latin scene, leading over 3,000 people at the World Music Stage "salsa-ing" into the New Year to their unique style of Urban Latin Funk. Since then Manteca have become well known for creating a party mood at festivals and gigs all around the world.

Having an utommusical starting point is often grateful for creativity when composing. On this album, Erik Dahl has taken inspiration from Ursula Le Guins the left hand of darkness, a 1969 science fiction classic. A feminist novel that, among other things, puts our perceptions of the sexes on end. Highly topical yet to the highest degree and if these themes are heard in the music you can have different perceptions of. But undoubtedly, it is a narrative and image-creating music that flows forward where the listener can associate freely. A lot of the songs move in a kind of dreamy landscape, dynamically certainly where the music moves between empathy and utlevel, with tensions between harmonious and disharmonious. The ensemble consists of six musicians on Viola / Viola, clarinet and bass clarinet, saxophones, piano, double bass and drums and percussion.