There is no Future Sara Aldén, August Björn, Daniel Andersson

• 1 There Is No Future 05:00
• 2 Misty 05:36
• 3 Someday My Prince Will Come 04:31
• 4 I Would Only 04:08
• 5 Somewhere Over the Rainbow (for Sven-Olof) 04:02
• 6 To Let Go 05:03
• 7 In Between 00:43
• 8 I Don’t Know 05:41
• 9 They Can’t Take That Away From Me 03:56
• 10 What a Wonderful World 07:03
• Total Runtime 45:43

Info for There is no Future

Jazz on life and death! In There Is No Future, Swedish jazz singer Sara Aldén makes her album debut with self-written music and arranged jazz standards with a focus on grand crescendos and vulnerable intimacy. She creates jazz as if her life depended on it where the question of the end of everything is allowed to exist, the small endings and the big ones. Sara Aldén and her trio present a musical sinkhole in the ongoing history of jazz, where doom-filled and intimate compositions alternate with dizzying arpeggios and dystopian and lyrical sound worlds. The album begins with saturated arrangements and dense compositions filled with energy and drive to gradually turn into open hopelessness and question marks. "What a Wonderful World" closes the album where time is reminded and throws the listener into a rocking vacuum. Sara Aldén (voice), August Björn (piano) and Daniel Andersson (double bass) explore how contemporary jazz expresses itself when three musicians from the Nordic countries come together.

"Sensitive, naked and with a sympathetic thoughtfulness" (Dan Backman, JAZZ (Orkesterjournalen)

Sara Aldén's debut is with "pass with distinction", now it's just a matter of waiting for more." (Lennart Götesson, Dala Demokraten)

Sara Aldén, vocals
August Björn, piano, harmonium
Daniel Andersson, double bass

Sara Aldén
is described in Sweden as the creator of "jazz about life and death." With integrity and curiosity, Sara explores the spaces within the jazz context and has an intimate way of making music, inviting the listener into a small space of silence. In contrast, the clarity and power of her voice resonate in large concert halls and expansive landscapes.

Sara Aldén, jazz vocalist and Sweden's "creator of jazz about life and death," explores perspectives on the end with her album.

With her album, Sara Aldén sings about perspectives surrounding death.

On her upcoming debut album, “There is no Future” (Naxos, Prophone, March 2024), Sara Aldén and her trio point to a vast vacuum in the history of jazz, where fateful compositions alternate with dizzying arpeggios, grand crescendos, and sonic landscapes that captivate the music, suggesting the end of everything as we know it. With integrity and curiosity, Sara explores the spaces within the jazz context, creating an intimate way of making music, inviting the listener into a small space of silence. This contrasts with the clarity and grandeur of her voice, which resonates in large concert halls and expansive landscapes.

Sara Aldén made her EP debut in 2022 with the critically acclaimed “A Room of One’s Own,” where she explored the norms and forms of jazz with her own unique expression and musical language. With musical luminaries such as Lina Nyberg, Gretchen Parlato, the Esbjörn Svensson Trio, and Tigran Hamasyan, Sara created soundscapes that envision what jazz will sound like in 2024. She has previously collaborated with musicians like Anders Jormin, Malin Wättring, and Martin Sjöstedt, and on June 3, 2022, she gave her release concert with Lina Nyberg at Sweden's renowned Skeppet.

Sara Aldén grew up between Sala and Avesta in Sweden and began her musical journey at the age of 12, grounded in big band and jazz, which remains her greatest passion. With her musical roots firmly planted in her years as a big band singer and interpreter of standard jazz, Sara is now ready to realize her own vision of music. Sara has twice received the Fredrika Bremer Scholarship from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Music with a specialization in improvisational performance at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Gothenburg and in Gendering Practices in the Master's program at the University of Gothenburg. Her research on jazz and gender examines inequalities and experiences within the context of jazz from a gender perspective. Sara Aldén lives in Gothenburg.

"More, more, more, I exclaim. Now, right now! I have heard a great Swedish jazz singer – a new jazz star – is born." — Bengt Eriksson, LIRA Music Magazine

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