Nils Landgren: The Moon, The Stars and You/Collector's Edition

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

João Bosco (g, v)
Joe Sample (p)
Nils Landgren (tr, voc)
Steve Gadd (d)
Richard Galliano (acc, bandoneon, accordina)
Lars Danielsson (b, clo)
Johan Norberg (g)
Michael Wollny (p)
Rasmus Kihberg (d)

Label:

ACT

Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Catalogue Number:

ACT6010-2 CD + DVD

RecordDate:

10 December 2011

The original CD release of Landgren's meditations about all things moony, starry and generally heavenly was a spanglesome treat. Now it's been swiftly reissued, but also with a DVD of the core quartet. With none of those stellar guests, Galliano, Gadd and Sample et al on board, you may feel a little cheated with the DVD. But actually it's a whole new album in itself. Wollny is given far more room to express himself, and is able to step change between the lustrously romantic and a more ‘out’ attitude that reflects his own trio work. Landgren sings a shade less (but no less movingly), but again there's more room for that melancholy ’bone to moan, as on ‘The Moon's A Harsh Mistress’. But then suddenly he steps on the echo giving us a very different ‘Moonshadow’ from the album version. With the guys all togged up in DJs and gorgeously lit in red and blacks, this could be a fab Valentine's Day treat or Christmas stocking filler.

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