23 March 2016

Lisa Ekdahl "Back to Earth" (1998)

Back to Earth
release date: Oct. 23, 1998
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,38]
producer: Patrick Boman and Peter Nordahl
label: BMG Classics / RCA Victor - nationality: Sweden

2nd collaboration album featuring Lisa Ekdahl released as Lisa Ekdahl & Peter Nordahl Trio. This is her second jazz album with Peter Nordahl Trio and it's only slightly better than the first. Between these two jazz releases she released two solo studio albums - her second solo album Med kroppen mot jorden in 1996, and her third solo album, Bortom det blå (1997).
This album is another "cover" versions release from the huge vocal jazz standards catalogue, and it's very much like the '95 release. Her voice doesn't really add much new to the classics, nor does it put her on par with Ella Fitzgerald or the like but it may ensure the album as a favourite by many younger buyers because "it's just sooo good" when you want music as background noise for a romantic candlelight dinner.