Esbjörn Svensson Trio / e.s.t. - From Gagarin's Point of View

1999 European CD release.

Complex motifs and thoughtful stylistic variations are combined with subtle rhythms For the necessary mixture of groove and memorable melodies. The eleven compositions integrate gravity with humour, individuality with mass appeal, concept and vision with a brazen casualness into an up-to-date improvised potpourri; "We try to let the music flow. That’s also why the rather strange album tide that Magnus came up with works. Gagarin was the First man to gaze back at the earth from space. Out there in the solitude, he could survey all that passed by below. We liked this image, and felt it worked for the tide and the concept of the album".

Esbjörn Svensson - Grand Piano, Keyboards, Percussion
Dan Berglund - Doublebass, Percussion
Magnus Öström - Drums, Percussion

Recorded by Janne Hansson at Atlantis Studio, May, September, November 1998