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Dubbelgångarn är en fantastisk resa i den akustiska
gitarrvärlden av en stor gitarrist.
(Lira 5/2003, Micke Forsberg)
Vackert och stämningsfullt och direkt självlysande när
kamraten och kollegan Mats Bergström assisterar på några spår.
(Spelmannen 4/2003, Peter Ahlbom)
Ekedahls energiskt och rytmiskt sugande spel ger mig helt
klart associationer till stora musikpersonligheter såsom Bream
även om de spelar i vitt skilda genrer.
(Svenska gitarr- och lutasällskapets tidning, oktober 2003, Patrik Karlsson)
Er spielt die klassische Gitarre ebenso souverän wie die
12-saitige oder die akustische im allseits beliebten DADGAD
Tuning. Ob amerikanisches Fingerpicking, schwedische Polka
oder barock anmutender Tanz - alles fügt sich unter Ekedahls
Händen zur unprätentiösen Aussage eines Vollblutmusikers.
Besonders erwähnenswert ist die Zusammenarbeit mit dem
Saitenkollegen Mats Bergström. Von erfrischender Leichtigkeit,
hochvirtuos und gekonnt arrangiert treiben alleine diese
Duoperlen jedem Gitarrenfreund die Freudentränen in die Augen.
(Folker! 6/2003, Rolf Beydemüller)
His playing reflects a number of styles: classical, new age
and folk... His playing is clean and crisp, the tunes are slow,
mid-tempo and strongly melody-based. Although they were
recorded over a number of years, there is a reassuring
consistency to them. Light and easy listening and very well
done. Worth tracking down.
(Dirty Linen 110, feb/mar 2004, Jle)
I was unfamiliar with the work of Jan Ekedahl, and having
heard this album, am forced to conclude that this was MY loss.
This CD consisting of exclusively INSTRUMENTAL guitar tunes,
impresses from start to finish... His vast experience shows in
this impressively catholic variety of arrangements for the
acoustic guitar... If you like acoustic guitar instrumentals,
played in an assured manner, then this is an album right up your
street.
(Folkworld 27, Dai Woosnam)
An adept, nimble player on both nylon- and steel-string guitar, his
strengths actually have more to do with tonal subtlety and lyrical nuance
then fretboard fireworks. This approach accentuates the beauty of his
intricately constructed originals, which range stylistically from the
ragtime feel of "Kaja" to the hymn-like "A&O" ande the Celtic/Baroque
"David´s Marsch", a piece that brings to mind John Renbourn in his Nine
Maidens period. Other highlights include "Polska till Agnes", with it´s odd
but lulling rhytms, and the dreamy thematic variations of "Stadsharen".
Fellow Swedish guitarist Mats Bergström joins Ekedahl for three duets,
includung the title cut and "Stjännu", the lilting folk-baroque piece that
close this enchanting CD.
(Ron Forbes-Roberts, Acoustic Guitar no 141, sept 2004)
Ekedahl´s influences are blended together until it is impossible to tell
what came from where. Some tracks may briefly hint at Irish music, for
example, but they can´t be described as "Celtic-sounding". Ekedahl calls
the album "a promenade from picking to polska", and that description fits.
The music is accessible and draws the listener in. The melodies have a
direct emotional impact, even though the compositions themselves may be
complex... Ekedahl shows that he is equally comfortable with sweet gentle
music and with more up-tempo numbers... Any lover of fingerstyle guitar
should enjoy this album. Ekedahl deserves an audience far beyond Sweden´s
shores for this fine recording.
(Jennifer Hanson, Rambles, 6 march 2004)
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