release date: Mar. 1996
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,68]
producer: Janne Hansson, Lennart Karlsmyr [recorded by]
label: RCA Victor / BMG Sweden - nationality: Sweden
Track highlights: 1. "Inte kan ödet vara så hårt" - 2. "Himlen och jag" - 3. "Små onda djävlar" - 6. "Skäl att vara motvalls" - 9. "Hösten"
2nd solo album by Lisa Ekdahl is like her '94 debut album a collection of stripped-down compositions featuring Ekdahl's vocal and acoustic guitar together with a small handful of primary musicians: Kenny Håkansson on guitar, Patrik Boman on double bass, Bill Öhrström on congas, percussion & harmonica, and with Jörgen Ringkvist on drums. All songs are written and composed by Ekdahl and the album appears as the debut like mere studio recordings - the album has no producer credits, which also suggest that the album is recorded live in studio.
Stylistically, it follows closely on the path laid out on her fine debut and by that doesn't share common ground with her most recent collaboration with Peter Nordahl Trio When Did You Leave Heaven from 1995 and its vocal jazz standards. This is Swedish folk pop/ easy listening in a singer / songwriter universe with bonds to folk music and world music. It's like the second half of two solo albums that are closely related - her debut and this could nicely be fitted on a double album without pointing in various directions.
Nice and solid.
