Joel Lyssarides - Stay Now (CD)

Release Date: 01/28/22Swedish piano rising-star Joel Lyssarides and his trio celebrate the magic of the moment. Played with great sensitivity and a vocabulary that draws from classical music, jazz and great songwriting.“For me music is not a calculation, when I play I follow my intuition. The creative impulse always comes from within me. Me and my piano, they’re at the centre of my musical world.” For Joel Lyssarides jazz is above all a language, a tool for uniquely personal expression. He composed the pieces for “Stay Now” in a remote house in the forest, a good half-hour outside Stockholm. And by preference at night, in silence, darkness and deep concentration. The atmosphere of this place is audibly reflected in the music, which is strongly influenced by space, sound and mood - reinforced by the highly concentrated, differentiated, subtle interplay of pianist Lyssarides with bassist Niklas Fernqvist and drummer Rasmus Blixt. What these three young musicians have in common