LENNART GINMAN releases final single from new instrumental album ‘360’ feat. Maggie Björklund and Steen Rock

Today, one of Denmark’s most acknowledged jazz musicians, double bass player, composer and producer Lennart Ginman releases the fifth and final single from his new instrumental album ‘360’ which is set for a September 8th release. As its four predecessors, the single is a fine example on Ginmans natural fusion of jazz and electronica, of the uplifting and disturbing and of the beautiful and ugly - a musical image of the ambiguity of existence.

• Listen to the fourth single ‘SOS’ HERE
• Listen to the third single ‘Low’ HERE
• Listen to the second single ‘Bug’ HERE
• Listen to the first single ‘She’ HERE

The music on ‘360’ is unmistakable Lennart Ginman with its melancholic and cinematic tone in a natural cross field of jazz and electronic music. Furthermore, the album unfolds a new side of Ginman’s explorative musicality in its use of FM-synthesis, a specific approach to creation of sound and not least, a cooperation with two of Denmark’s most exciting musicians. The ten tracks on ‘360’ are created in close cooperation with Maggie Björklund (pedal steel guitar), Steen Rock (DJ/Percussion), producer Kæv Gliemann and visual artist Teddy Kristiansen - a constellation, which provides Ginman’s new compositions with a singular expression.

‘360’ took its beginning in difficult circumstances though. Ginman suddenly fell ill with the ear disease Meniéres, which destroyed the hearing on his left ear and inflicted permanent, heavy tinnitus, constant vertigo and hearing disorders. “Sound hurt, and my double bass sounded as though it came from a transistor radio in anti-phase. I was forced to do something new.”, Ginman says. Here after, Ginman went to his vacation house, where during the next months he wrote the main part of the new album using electronic equipment based on FM-synthesis and thus, no computer or samplings. By arranging the tracks as simply as possible and at low volume, the ears were not overly burdened, and he rediscovered a creative source, which inspired him deeply.

Ginman wanted to create an album showing his a “complete musician” without the division between his electronic side and jazz side - thus the title ‘360’, which aims at verbalizing the wholeness of Ginman’s musicality. The music was to build a bridge between the repetitive tightness and rigor of the machine and the total openness of form in jazz. As always with Ginman, the dark, melancholic tone prevails, while the compositions with their minimalist touch leave room for interpretation. Opposites meet on the album which embraces the beautiful, the disturbing and the majestic and in Ginman’s own words creates “a music for all, but not for everyone”.