Olof Lövmo Trio // Wood Songs // CD

Music with a subtle hint of the woods and Nordic seasons caught our attention. We had to hear more. A piano in an open landscape enchanted us, and soon we were lost in the special but recognisable world of an outstanding artist. 

It is not often in the long history of KKV that we have taken a journey with an artist we have never met, but who wanted to work with us because he knew so many of our productions. Olof Lövmo is a young Swedish pianist who has put together a trio of international stature. With Robin Draganic (bass) from Croatia/Canada and Andrea Marcelli (drums) from Italy/the US he spins out his own compositions, playing with folk songs and hymns.

Olof Lövmo was born in 1980 in Kalmar, Sweden. He is a pianist, composer and teacher, the son of a church musician, thus raised with the hymn tradition. He has studied at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg, and Conservatorio F. Morlacchi in Perugia, Italy. From 2007 he worked as a teacher in the programme for music at Oskarshamn Folk high school, while also working as a freelance pianist in theatres, with big bands and in other contexts. 

He started the trio in 2011. They have toured in Germany and Sweden, giving concerts in jazz clubs, churches and schools.

“The trio mainly plays my compositions, but also Swedish hymns and folk songs,” Olof says.  “Many of these songs were composed when I studied in Italy and they reflect a need to express myself in a situation where language and words are inaccessible. I wrote the song "For Esther" for my daughter when she was three months old and had just recovered from a very serious illness.”

The album was recorded at Studio Kyrkskolan in Mörbylånga on Öland by Katarina Gottfridsson and mixed in The Cabin Studio in Oscarshamn, Sweden, by Mikael Rosman. It was mastered in Rainbow Studio by Jan Erik Kongshaug.

Lean back, open up and listen to a record with wonderful moods and magnificent beauty!

Track list:

1. PAX (Lövmo)                                                                                              6:00

2. Bushein (Lövmo)                                                                                       3:08

3. Emigrantvisa (trad.) (Emigrant song)                                                      3:43

4. The Walker (Lövmo)                                                                                 4:42

5. For Esther (Lövmo)                                                                                   5:22

6. Jag Lyfter Ögat Mot Himmelen* (I Lift my Eyes to Heaven)                  5:24

7. Lidice (Lövmo)                                                                                           3:28

8. Till En Hund (Lövmo) (To a dog)                                                              6:54

9. Ol Blues (Lövmo)                                                                                       4:02

*Composed by Oskar Lindberg