SVEN WUNDER - EASTERN FLOWERS

LP/Digital – PIANO PIANO PP1001
Released August 2019

1. Black Iris / 2. Tulip / 3. Magnolia / 4. Lotus / 5. Lily / 6. Red Rose / 7. Hibiscus / 8. Magnolia (reprise) / 9. Morning Glory / 10. Chamomile / 11. Hyacinth / 12. Daisy / 13. Gilboa Iris

This is the first stop on Sven Wunder’s musical journey. Wunder takes the listener somewhere around the easternmost part of the Mediterranean Sea, around the Levantine Sea, where he paints a colourful portrait and illustrates the region’s flora through sound. The fruitage is a vivid bouquet where Wunder fuses colours and pigments by using traditional and modern instruments merged with arrangements and melodies that stretches from popular to folk music by portraying tulips, red roses, hibiscus, hyacinths, chamomile, magnolia, daisies etcetera. With both fine and thick brushes these flowers are pictured in both modern and classic idiom. The outcome is prismatic. It stands between Anatolian rock and European jazz-funk with ponderous drum patterns, groovy organs, far-out synthesizers, enchanting Saz, and impetuous bass lines. Eastern Flowers sweeps through time and space and points towards the future. It could appeal to both psych and prog listeners, folk or jazz aficionados, and as well the gourmet hip hop connoisseurs.

Produced with financial support from the Swedish Arts Council.