Martin Tingvall – When Light Returns (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:05 minutes | 737 MB | Genre: Jazz
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For his fourth solo piano album, Martin Tingvall has refined his melodies even further. On record after record, the Hamburg-based Swede has further refined his blend of jazz, nineteenth-century music and Swedish folklore. But it is the purity that predominates here on When Light Returns, his new score which has taken a turn towards pure musical narration. As always with Tingvall, think travel. It’s an intense trip but always coloured by a certain lightness. This journey offers him a way to free himself from the influence of his elders John Taylor, Keith Jarrett and Esbj”orn Svensson. On this record, the biggest change has been on the piano: it sounds more generous, more direct, and is played with a virtuoso hand. – Clotilde Mar’echal
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Martin Tingvall – The Rocket (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:35 minutes | 995 MB | Genre: Jazz
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On “The Rocket” Martin Tingvall more than ever before created his own genre and takes his audience on a journey into new musical worlds. But don’t let yourself be fooled by the title: “The Rocket” is starting slowly and gentle into space. Martin Tingvall who is known as a jazzpianist but also feels at home in genres like rock, pop and filmmusic, has composed simple sounding but emotional touching melodies which seem to appear classical music themes. “Our world is rapidly changing. Digitisating is changing almost all areas of society and our daily life. With this album I wanted to create a counter-pole of tranquillity. At the same time I’m exploring new musical worlds. And it is always the music showing me the way.”
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Martin Tingvall – Distance (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:04 minutes | 684 MB | Genre: Jazz
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When Martin Tingvall released his first solo album, ‟en ny dag”, back in 2012, he intentionally presented a new facet of his artistic creativity: let’s call it ‛the quiet side.‘ The German weekly DIE ZEIT praised the album as ‟soul-searching, reserved, movingly serene” and verified that ‟Tingvall gathers up jazz aficionados at the point where Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea once left them …” FAZ, another German newspaper, added: ‟Tingvall‘s lyrical style endeavors to reinforce our faith in the unassuming.” The poetry with which Martin Tingvall touched his listeners struck a nerve with an audience bent on barricading itself for a moment against being inundated with information and superlatives vying to outdo each other. As for the question of whether this is jazz or classical music, the German review sections resolved it by concluding that this is a form of music that knew no partitioning by genre, and accordingly stood just as close to Edvard Grieg as to Chick Corea‘s ‟Children‘s Songs”.
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