New singel now released
By coincidence I came across this theme by Mozart in a piano book from my late grandfather. The aria has a total different tempo and arrangement but I heard something else behind it. Then at three a clock in the middle of the night this improvisations took place. Intoxicated by the theme I improvised a couple of variations over the form and chord changes, both in a classic style as well as in the jazz idiom.
For the production I arranged it with a double bass line and a synthesizer pad to make it shine.
New album ”Percussion in Orbit”
This production ”Percussion in Orbit” will feature dance rhythms with percussion in new compositions and arrangements. From Afro groove, salsa, Latin-jazz to backbeat. In this process I had in mind my earlier experience of meeting some legendary Latin musicians like Sabu Martinez, Bebo Valdez, Pancho Chin Aloi and Wilfredo Stephenson, to name a few. These persons gave me a lot of inspiration to carry on in exploring the fields of Afro-, Latino- music heritage in my own creative way. Especially created for dance and rhythm loving people!
New EP: ”Kind of Eye”
”To get inspiration from other artists is a major thing in creating new music I think. Even if the outcome doesn’t sound at all like the ones the inspiration came from. This is for me a benefit. This new album of mine was inspired by “Eggun” an album of Omar Sousa, his album was in turn inspired by the great album “Kind of blue” by Miles Davis. I choose to name my titles in honor of that Miles album. This is a kind of Electric World Jazz with some new combinations of sounds. It has rhythmic grooves, jazz chord changes and modal melodies. ”
New Single: ”Två Kulörta Visor”
These songs are my compositions to lyrics by two well known swedish poets, Nils Ferlin and Dan Andersson. They have a kind of jazzy and folkloric touch.
Some earlier productions on Spotify:
Song of Life
Latest Album release: ”Så Länge Elden Brinner”
An album with five traditional Swedish songs as well as two original songs. Instruments on the album: an Italian accordion with French mussette sound, a Brasilian pandeiro, congas, claves, acoustic guitars, bluesharp and keyboards. Mixed styles from traditional ballads to waltz with some Caribbean grooves. Lyrics are in Swedish.
”Lunch in the Lounge with a Twist”
–This is a story of “Lunch in the Lounge with a twist.”Imagining you’ve worked all morning and are hungry for lunch. In the lounge you open your lunchbox and suddenly an alien appears out of it. Trying to communicate with you in a language you don’t understand. Then a bizarre dialogue starts and you’re in the groove of something you don’t understand but a dance begins. -Sure why not, would you care for a Twist?
”For All”
This is a happy tune inspired by the Brazilian genre Forro. Alegría y joy!
”Get ready and go”
In Japan they called this music ”Free Soul”. The tune ”Get Readly and Go” is a fusion between disco funk and salsa. Featuring the vocalist Berit Andersson and Pancho Chin A loi and Christer Langborn on electric guitar solo. Keep on grooving!
Album release: All Birds don´t fly alike
In this work you can find a mixture of multicultural influences such as AfroCuban, Oriental and classical western music as well as jazz improvisations. This production is a free musical reflection on the allegororical poem Conference of the Birds by the Persian poet Farid ud-Din Attar. Thus the titels of the tunes, which relate to different themes in the poems.
It features his daughter Catalina Langborn on the violin, Olof Wendel on marimba https://www.olofwendel.com/ and Torbjörn Langborn on all other instruments.
Around the world:
This is an imaginary musical journey through different musical cultures I felt inspired to put in a tune. The journey starts with a ”folk-tune-waltz” on a desolate mountain of Europe and travels to sounds of oriental music which melts into India and Africa to become a short Salsa groove. Then a Pandeiro drum break takes the music to Brazil and a samba starts which finely ends in a funky blues downtown in New York.
Latin-Jazz with Roberto Arán vocal/percussion and Milton Román bass:
Symphonic music:
An enemy virus strikes hard, echo of a memory when the world was younger than today, the world will never be the same. A symphonic reflection over the Corona years and the End of an Era.
Improvisation on Church organ:
Music on the organ at the Church of Engelbrekt/Stockholm.
Salsa with the big sound and groove with Latin Company:
Original Salsa compositions by Torbjörn Langborn featuring Don Pancho vocals and many more great musicians.
Syntheziser as a solo instrument:
Original tunes with improvisations on Roland and Nordlead synthezisers.