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Everyone's Too Sad For Everything

by Erik Dahl Ensemble

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1.
Lagim 06:00
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2.
The Woods Within 06:09
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3.
Join The Dots 04:39
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4.
The Fragile Ones 06:09
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5.
Nocturnal 02:26
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6.
Unfolding 09:35
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7.
Vulkan 03:55
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8.
Ceremony 07:35
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9.
Too Sad 07:31
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10.
Frostblommor till Emma Niskanpää 06:15
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about

Erik Dahl Ensemble make music in a dreamland between jazz, chamber music and space rock. Everyone’s Too Sad For Everything is the second album by the group. The music was written during the period of isolation the pandemic forced upon us. Numerous emotions were evoked by the lack of concerts and social life.

”I wanted to transform that specific feeling into music. The loneliness, a soaring melancholy, sadness that comes and goes. While starting to write the music I stumbled on the phrase ’Everyone’s Too Sad For Everything’ in a book. The words are paradoxical, at first it sounds so gloomy. But there is also something else, slightly absurd, almost humoristic. To be sharing your sadness with others is actually kind of hopeful.”

The members of the group are accomplished performers on the Swedish jazz and folk music scene. They enrich the music with their multifaceted personal expressions. The group is based in Gothenburg and led by critically acclaimed composer Erik Dahl whose compositions balances melodic simplicity with experimental impulses.

Music transports us to an inner landscape. It hints at a secret world that consciousness cannot reach. This is a place with both light and darkness. To get there you must dare to travel alone into the unknown. Music is the vessel that moves us.

We are all too sad. We are the fragile ones. But we are also hardy like mountain birches. We perform a ceremony, a dance to the apocalypse. We can join the dots to form new patterns. The butterfly of the cover represents transformation and hope.

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released September 22, 2023

Anna Cochrane, violin/viola
Andreas Thurfjell, alto/baritone saxophone/clarinet
Anna Malmström, clarinet/bass clarinet
Erik Dahl, piano/electronics
Viktor Reuter, double bass
William Soovik, drums/percussion

All music composed and arranged by Erik Dahl

Åke Linton, Recording and Mix Engineer
Hans Olsson, Mastering Engineer

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Erik Dahl Gothenburg, Sweden

Erik Dahl is a composer and pianist who combines different traditions into a sound of his own. With Erik Dahl Ensemble this becomes a rich tapestry and a dreamland between genres

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