Crane Halling/Haridji-Halling (Jonas Simonson)
M (Anders Jormin)
Feu (Jormin/Nelson/Sominson)
Törnsäter/Polska från Bingsjö (Karin Nelson/Jonas Simonson)
Vägen är öde/Desolate Road (Anders Jormin)
Air (Jormin/Nelson/Simonson)
Magnificat (Gregorian chant/Karin Nelson)
Vater unser im Himmelreich (Dietrich Buxtehude)
Songs in Meantone is a unique summit meeting between three musicians from different traditions: the bass-player Anders Jormin, the flautist Jonas Simonson and– in the center – the organist Karin Nelson, playing on the extraordinary baroque organ at Örgryte nya kyrka, Göteborg. Folk music, jazz and early music united.
Anders Jormin – internationally acclaimed bassist, composer and a professor of Improvisation at the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg. He is a member of the Bobo Stenson Trio and an ECM recording artist. Jormin tours and performs regularly with many of the foremost artists in contemporary improvisational music and he has released about a dozen CDs under his own name, and is featured on a substantial number of recordings in several genres. His compositions range from modern jazz to pieces for choirs and symphonic ensembles.
Karin Nelson – organist and graduate of the Sweelinck Conservatory of Amsterdam. The title of her 2010 PhD thesis is ”Improvisation and Pedagogy through Heinrich Scheidemann’s Magnificat Settings”. Nelson gives solo concerts and teaches organ interpretation and improvisation at the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg.
Jonas Simonson – flautist and educator. Course director of the World music programme at the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg. He is a current member of Den Fule, Groupa and CraneDance Trio, and a former member of many other groups, such as Bäsk, Kapell Frisell and the Vocal Ensemble Amanda. Simonson composes and arranges music with roots in Scandinavian folk music.