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Swedish composer & artist Sven Wunder returns with brilliant fourth album Late Again.

Since the release of the highly-acclaimed debut Eastern Flowers back in 2019, Stockholm-based composer and artist Sven Wunder has quickly built a very strong global following, releasing numerous recordings for both Mr. Bongo and his own label Piano Piano. In September, he will issue his fourth and arguably best full-length to date, titled Late Again.

Inspired by nightfall and the imagery of shooting stars and scattered beams from the setting sun, this brilliant 10-track recording fuses together cosmic jazz and psychedelic tones, with layered horn melodies, cinematic string arrangements, hypnotic folk, and 70s era library music influences. Wunder’s signature elements of brightly colored textures and vibrant melodies are also fully capsulated with the foundation of the music.

Incredible from start to finish, with one track nicely flowing into the next, Wunder has created a sonic journey that is both spiritually meditative and also grooves. Highly recommended, Late Again is definitely one of the best albums of 2023. — (via Beat Caffeine)

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When the sun hovers near the horizon, the rays of white sunlight are scattered out of the beam by small particles and molecules in the atmosphere that sprinkle the sky with brilliant hues indicating that the day starts to fade. As night begins to fall, tree-tops redden and begin to glow. Darkness closes in and falls like a blanket covering the sky. It is late again and all is in shadow below. It is when stars align and dreams come true.

Sven Wunder thrives at nightfall and welcomes the horizon of beginnings on Late Again, a collection of nocturnal jazz pieces that depict shooting stars and scattered beams from the setting sun, with an emphasis on gentle compositions for piano and orchestral pop-jazz arrangements for flute, brass, and strings. — (via Label)

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Sven Wunder returns with his highly anticipated fourth full-length album Late Again out September 29th on Piano Piano Records. The album compiles some of his most admired compositions to date, like the jazz ballads ”Snowdrops” and ”Asterism Waltz”, and the modal jazz pieces ”Jazz at Night”, and ”Stars Align”. As well as new compositions such as ”Sundown”, ”Pop-Jazz Structures”, and ”Take A Break” with brightly colored textures and vibrant melodies which have become Wunder’s trademark, and so forth.

The Swedish artist and composer have previously catapulted himself onto the global stage of contemporary grooves with his three critically acclaimed albums Eastern Flowers (2019), Wabi Sabi (2020), and Natura Morta (2021), along with a handful of singles such as Harmonica And.... (2023) Sun- Kissed (2022), and Mosaic (2022). 

His releases have appealed to psych and prog listeners, folk and jazz aficionados, hip-hop connoisseurs, bonafide tastemakers, and fans across the globe which have cemented Wunder’s position as a gifted composer and a musical force to be reckoned with. — (via Diggers Digest)

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Label: Piano Piano
Format: LP
Released: 2023
Genre: Jazz
Style: Soul-Jazz, Easy Listening, Downtempo

File under: Jazz // Modern/Future Jazz
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