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Christmas With My Friends VII (vinyl)

Nils Landgren

Christmas With My Friends VII (vinyl)

Format: LP 12inch
Label: ACT music
UPC: 0614427991614
Catnr: ACTLP 99161
Release date: 30 October 2020
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Label
ACT music
UPC
0614427991614
Catalogue number
ACTLP 99161
Release date
30 October 2020
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Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album


It´s that time of the year again and we want to celebrate together with you. After we started to record and tour with CWMF, we have seen so many beautiful churches and concert halls and we have met so many wonderful human beings. For this we are all grateful and we always long for the next encounter.

12 years and six albums later, I asked first myself and then my label boss Siggi Loch if it would make any sense to record a number seven. "Why not", he said. "Maybe it would be a good idea to go beyond what you have done so far and include songs from more countries around the world."

I asked my longtime musical companion and friend Johan Norberg if he would take on the task of doing the research for the album and he accepted on the spot. He came up with beautiful songs from many different countries and what you hear on number seven is a result of that research, but it also shows the incredible talent of each and everyone in our group.

Eva, Ida, Jeanette, Jessica, Sharon, Jonas and Johan all have their unique way of interpretation and their personalities really shine on this album. I allowed my self to do the same. A lot of fun we had recording the music and we hope that you will enjoy our efforts to go beyond the expected. Each and every song has a special meaning to us, maybe for you as well.

Artist(s)

Nils Landgren (trombone)

Tender-hearted yet tenacious, Nils Landgren is a world-class artist. His Funk Unit’s groove is irresistible, and The Man with the Red Horn himself has led the band through their highly successful run of CDs, and in rapturously received concerts everywhere from Stockholm to Beijing. 'Funk is my Religion' is the band’s eleventh album – the album title just says it all. Landgren and his Norsemen bring a passion, an intensity and a freshness to their craft which has remained undimmed since the start. For more than 25 years, jazz-funk has been the force driving Landgren. This veritable elixir of life produces the bubbling energy, groove and joy that can be heard and felt in every note of the music. The...
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Tender-hearted yet tenacious, Nils Landgren is a world-class artist. His Funk Unit’s groove is irresistible, and The Man with the Red Horn himself has led the band through their highly successful run of CDs, and in rapturously received concerts everywhere from Stockholm to Beijing. "Funk is my Religion" is the band’s eleventh album – the album title just says it all. Landgren and his Norsemen bring a passion, an intensity and a freshness to their craft which has remained undimmed since the start. For more than 25 years, jazz-funk has been the force driving Landgren. This veritable elixir of life produces the bubbling energy, groove and joy that can be heard and felt in every note of the music. The band’s deliciously easy and laid-back vibe gets straight through to audiences. With the crispness of their funk rhythms, blazing brass, cool vocals and persuasive melodies, a new chapter for the Nils Landgren Funk Unit is only just beginning.

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Johan Norberg (guitar)

Jonas Knutsson (saxophone)

Eva Kruse (double bass)

Sharon Dyall (vocals)

Ida Sand (piano)

Ida Sand was born in 1977 into a very musical family in Stockholm. Her family roots lie in Piteå, a town in the far north of Sweden. Ida’s father was a well-known opera singer who sang at the Stockholm Opera for 30 years, her mother is still an active church musician. Both parents were a strong inspiration for young Ida. She started playing the cello at age 8 but the instrument did not leave much of an impression. Instead, Ida spent more and more time at the piano, singing along while tinkling the keys for hours. She did not let her mum teach her, she wanted to learn for herself and so she did. At 16, Ida went to study at...
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Ida Sand was born in 1977 into a very musical family in Stockholm. Her family roots lie in Piteå, a town in the far north of Sweden. Ida’s father was a well-known opera singer who sang at the Stockholm Opera for 30 years, her mother is still an active church musician. Both parents were a strong inspiration for young Ida.

She started playing the cello at age 8 but the instrument did not leave much of an impression. Instead, Ida spent more and more time at the piano, singing along while tinkling the keys for hours. She did not let her mum teach her, she wanted to learn for herself and so she did. At 16, Ida went to study at the music gymnasium in Stockholm and two years later, she went on to the Academy of Music in Gothenburg, where she immersed herself in the city’s lively jazz scene.

As fascinating as jazz was to Ida, her musical influences remained Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway and Aretha Franklin. After graduating in 2000, she worked continually, spending her time doing nightclub gigs, playing piano bars and soul clubs. Always busy, always learning.

Since Ida started her career as a freelance singer and keyboard player, she has worked with the cream of the crop of the music scene in Sweden: Christian Waltz, Stephen Simmonds, Carola, Lisa Nilsson, Eric Gadd, Bo Kaspers, Jerry Williams, Uno Svenningsson, Jennifer Brown and Nils Landgren, to mention a few.

In spring 2007 Ida’s debut album Meet Me Around Midnight (ACT 9716-2) was released and critics and music lovers felt confident. “Ida Sand sings with power and she is the most soulful white female singer to come along in some time”, said JAZZ PODIUM.

Ida’s second album True Love (ACT 9481-2) was released in 2009. It takes on an even more personal sound than her previous work – one reason for this is that in the interim period Sand has become the mother of a baby girl. True Love is produced by her husband, the guitar player Ola Gustafsson. At the album’s core are five outstanding original compositions, framed by classics from a variety of genres – a very personal declaration of love to her family, the music, and the world

With her third album “The Gospel Truth” (ACT 9725-2), released in September 2011, Ida Sand fulfils a long harboured dream: to unite her three great musical influences – jazz, gospel and soul – with her own personal signature. The album was produced by Nils Landgren who is also involved as a musical guest as is guitarist Raul Midón, singer Rigmor Gustafsson, saxophonist Magnus Lindgren and guitarist and Ida Sand’s husband Ola Gustafsson


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01.
This Christmas (from Sweden)
01:50
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
02.
Comin' Home For Christmas (from Germany & Sweden)
04:27
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
03.
Ave Maria (from Austria)
04:12
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
04.
This Endris Night (from Ireland)
02:49
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
05.
The Forest Raised A Christmas Tree (from Russia)
02:29
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
06.
Gdy ?liczna Panna / Listen To My Lullaby (from Poland)
03:35
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
07.
Sizalelwe Indodana / Unto Us A Son Is Born (from South Africa)
03:12
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
08.
Sweet Was The Song (from Great Britain)
03:39
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
09.
Hin fyrstu jól (from Iceland)
02:58
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
10.
Hodie Christus (from Great Britain)
03:48
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
11.
Just Another Christmas Song (from the USA)
03:21
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
12.
Sylvian Joululaulu (from Finland)
03:21
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
13.
En förtvivlad vän (from Belgium)
04:08
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
14.
Feliz Navidad (from Puerto Rico)
03:23
(Various) Nils Landgren, Jeanette Köhn, Johan Norberg, Jonas Knutsson, Eva Kruse, Jessica Pilnäs, Sharon Dyall, Ida Sand
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