Bugge Wesseltoft Everybody Loves Angels
There can be very few musicians who are capable of making silence as audibly vivid as the Norwegian Bugge Wesseltoft, in particular in his solo piano recordings. For twenty years, the most successful of these, “It’s Snowing On My Piano”, has been treasured as a haven of wintry stillness and contemplation. So now Bugge Wesseltoft and producer Siggi Loch have returned to the original concept of “Snowing” in “Everybody Loves Angels”. The title is a metaphor for the kind of weightless ease which the music conveys; and this time it's not just for winter...
There can be very few musicians who are capable of making silence as audibly vivid as the Norwegian Bugge Wesseltoft, in particular in his solo piano recordings. For twenty years, the most successful of these, “It’s Snowing On My Piano”, has been treasured as a haven of wintry stillness and contemplation. It is a classic album. Listeners all over Europe have responded to it by giving it a permanent place in their lives. So now Bugge Wesseltoft and producer Siggi Loch have returned to the original concept of “Snowing” in “Everybody Loves Angels”. The title is a metaphor for the kind of weightless ease which the music conveys; and this time it's not just for winter...The success story started in 1997. Bugge Wesseltoft had just released the album “New Conception Of Jazz” on his own newly-founded label Jazzland. That album broke new ground...
Line up:Bugge Wesseltoft / piano
Recording Information:Produced by Siggi Loch with the artist
Recorded at LofotKatedralen, Lofoten, Norway
Recording date: February 24 – 26, 2017
Recording Engineer: Asle Karstad
Piano technician: Eric Schandall
Mixed and mastered by Ulf Holand at Holand Sound
Cover art by Amy Simon, 2014, by permission of the artist
Track List:
- Es sungen drei Engel ( traditional / arr. Bugge Wesseltoft)05:09
- Bridge Over Troubled Water ( Paul Simon)08:32
- Angel ( Jimi Hendrix)05:27
- Reflecting ( Bugge Wesseltoft)01:55
- Morning Has Broken ( Cat Stevens)05:20
- Salme ( Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse / Bugge Wesseltoft)04:50
- Blowing In The Wind ( Bob Dylan)05:59
- Angie ( Mick Jagger & Keith Richards)03:38
- Locked Out Of Heaven ( Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence & Ari Levine)04:13
- Let It Be ( John Lennon & Paul McCartney)04:46