Finally the great Swedish jazz drummer Jesper Kviberg has released his first album as a leader. Jesper Kviberg has played with poll winning artists like Stacey Kent, Barbara Morrison and Swedish saxophone legend Bernt Rosengren. He started this 8-piece band to get an opportunity to play with his favourite musicians and best friends at the same time.

Brilliant triojazz from three of Swedens most exciting musicians. Music in the tradition of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane with an ambient and contemporary touch. Örjan Hultén Trio went to Prästmon, Ångermanland in the north of Sweden to reconnect to their northern roots and to get the right woodland feeling. This new album, their first full length recording as a trio, was recorded in Hola on a bitterly cold winterday.

ÖH3/FK continues to create new music, mixing influences from household gods like John Coltrane and Anouar Brahem, with their own unique style. 7 new originals and an unorthodox version of a Turkish 9/8 meter puts the band on the map of musicians searching for the new thing. The group started out as a double trio mixing modern jazz with Arabic folkmusic, but have now reached a point where the borders are swept away and we can now witness a truly astounding and natural merge between these two elements. The compositions, most of them by Hultén, is mostly written for the whole ensemble, but also includes for trio and quartet. It sounds jazz with elements from Arabic-, Middle-East-, Gypsy-, Swedish folk- and pop, to describe it. If you listen carefully you'll also hear a small string-electronic:ish arrangement by Jonas Lindgren (Flesh Quartet).

This unique constellation features the meeting of two trios: One jazz, one Arabic, and the end result was LOVE! On this first cd, recorded live in Tensta, a suburb outside Stockholm, you hear this tremendous double trio burn together, and create movements in music. The songs goes from traditional Arabic folksongs, Bulgarian ratjenitsa, to freejazz and gospel. The closing number is a meeting between the jazztrio and three young rapping girls from Tensta, making a jazz-hiphop improvisation in the true spirit of Ornette Coleman.