Force of Nature Sara Aldén, August Björn, Daniel Andersson

• 1 World 03:41
• 2 The Rain 07:26
• 3 Lean on Me 05:55
• 4 You Taught Me 03:32
• 5 Unlearn 03:41
• 6 Come! 04:19
• 7 The Seed 02:45
• 8 This Tree Once Used to Bloom (for Palestine) 06:20
• 9 Hands Full of Love 04:19
• 10 In the End 01:18
• Total Runtime 43:16

Info for Force of Nature

Following her Swedish Grammis win for Jazz of the Year 2025, vocalist and composer Sara Aldén returns with Force of Nature, a sweeping, emotional, and unflinchingly honest new album that concludes the trilogy she began with A Room of One’s Own (2022) and continued with There Is No Future (2024). Rooted in jazz but reaching far beyond its borders, Force of Nature affirms Aldén’s arrival as a singular voice in contemporary music, bold in message, tender in form, and utterly uncompromising in vision.

Working with her long-standing trio, Daniel Andersson Runevad (upright bass) and August Björn (keys), Aldén crafts music that draws from Swedish folk tradition, the jazz canon, and a deeply personal sense of story. On Force of Nature, that story turns toward regeneration: the seed after collapse, the spark after silence. “It’s about life force, lust, desire, grief, and love, not just romantic love, but love for yourself, your child, the earth,” Aldén shares. “This is music about movement, about continuing.”

Entirely composed by Aldén herself, Force of Nature marks a full artistic arrival. The album moves between elemental power and introspective clarity, letting improvisation, song, and raw sound become vehicles for existential reflection. At its core is a belief in music as both resistance and renewal, jazz as a space where the body, the political, and the poetic can co-exist without compromise.

While anchored in her trio’s intimate dynamic, the record expands its palette through powerful collaborations with Hannes Bennich, Nils Landgren, and Michelle Willis, artists chosen not for genre or prestige, but for their resonance with Aldén’s vision. “These were relationships built on trust,” she says. “On shared values. That was everything.” The recording process embraced presence and vulnerability, allowing emotion and embodiment to shape the sound.

Named Vocal Jazz Artist of the Year 2024 by Lira Musikmagasin, Aldén has already established herself as a leading force in Scandinavian jazz. But Force of Nature is something more than a career milestone—it is an artistic manifesto. A record that doesn’t turn away from the darkness of our time, but insists on the possibility that still exists within it. It is music that breathes, confronts, heals, and moves forward. A force in itself.

Sara Aldén, vocals
August Björn, piano, keyboards, vocals
Daniel Andersson Runevad, double bass, vocals
Guest musicians:
Nils Landgren, trombone
Becca Stevens, vocals, mandolin
Emma Frank, vocals
Hannes Bennich, alto saxophone
Alma Möller, viola
Terese Lien Evenstad, violin
Maja Lindgren, vocals
Lotta Lindgren, vocals
Elise Malmström, vocals
Tove Edvardson, vocals
Eira Hjärtstam, vocals
Madeleine Finck Björgen, vocals
Johannes Lundberg, vocals

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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