The keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft reactivated his game-changing jazztronica New Conception of Jazz for its 20th anniversary last year, in the company of an impressive young Oslo-based female quartet. The Munich label ACT aren't slow picking up on timely anniversary releases either, having one of their own (a 25th) this year; they've followed up their release of Wesseltoft's 1997 solo debut acoustic piano CD It's Snowing On My Piano with Everybody Loves Angels exactly two decades later. As was the case with his groundbreaking work integrating jazz and new electronic technology in the late 1990s, Wesseltoft's music has plenty of the Nordic chill-out factor. On this new CD he's taken a remarkably consistent approach to this with a set of mostly classic ballads from the 1960s, including Jimi Hendrix's ‘Angel’, Paul Simon's ‘Bridge Over Troubled Waters’, Bob Dylan's ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’, The Beatles' ‘Let it Be’ and the Stones' ‘Angie’, with a nod to baroque on Bach's ‘Koral’ and contemporary pop on Bruno Mars's ‘Locked Out of Heaven’. Ideal for de-stressing or simply winding down at the end of the day, Everybody Loves Angels draws from spiritual song traditions ranging from Northern European hymns to gospel music, no doubt also inspired in part by the folk-jazz zen of the pioneering Swedish pianist Jan Johansson.