Jonatan Hildén

What do you call music for a quartet of three reed players with a drummer, music with not just a backbeat—and complex funk rhythms—but swagger, contrapuntal lines from warm, soulful saxophones played with a hip strut? According to saxophonist and composer Lenny Pickett, “It's chamber music. Chamber music with mixed winds and percussion.”

The first time I heard Carlos Gardel was in my maternal grandmother’s voice. She enjoyed singing, and used her beautiful, light soprano voice mostly to entertain herself while doing chores.

Eher aus Lust und Laune hatten die beiden Vollblut-Blueser Gregor Hilden und Richie Arndt im Jahre 2017 beschlossen, ein rein akustisches Album mit Neubearbeitungen von ihren persönlichen Song-Highlights der jüngeren Blues- Soul- und Rockgeschichte einzuspielen. Die Reaktionen waren enorm, und so liegt es nun auf der Hand, dass eine Fortsetzung mit elektrischen Zutaten und einer kompletten Bandbesetzung folgen soll!

German guitarist and songwriter Gregor Hilden is one of those Bluesmen who once you hear a single chord he plays forever owns your sense of what’s good and your definition of what makes The Blues intrinsically real and beautifully human. One of the most beautifully sounding guitarists around, Hilden also has dynamite support from a high quality team of German and American musicians. Playing a superb guitar, jazzy-blues-funky!

Tenor Jonatan Alvarado and vihuelist Ariel Abramovich browse through the folios of the Huehuetenango song manuscript: 15 volumes of polyphony and Gregorian chants from Northern Guatemala.

Darkness On The Edge Of Ecstasy is the 2016 album by Swedish artist Jonatan Bäckelie. He has also released work as Ernesto, Jong Tan, Pinku Vääty and Tantan, with a different name for each style of music he dabbles in. Released on 11 November, 2016 by German label Sonar Kollektiv.