A Room For Travellers

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Easily the best album so far by Magnus Öström […] more to the point it's an album you want to play again, and again, and you can't ask much more than that. — Jazzwise, June 2023

Release Date: 5th May 2023
Catalogue No: 3779555
Label: Jazzland
Length: 39 minutes

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Öström: Safe And Sound

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Öström: FlowFly

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Öström: Oceans

Work length6:57

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Öström: Pacific

Work length7:05

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Öström: On The High In My Life

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Öström: All Those years

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Swedish drummer and composer Magnus Ostrom (EST/Rymden) and his band are finally back with 'A Room For Travellers', his fourth to date.

It's both about the traveller's journey through the world but equally about a journey inward, the journey within. Magnus's hope is that for the listener the album can become a space to travel to, and to travel in, an infinite room. Both a little escapism from all the terrible things happening in the world right now, but also a journey inward to understand oneself and one's surroundings on a deeper level.

But above all, the album is about being present in the present and seeing nature, the oceans and our surroundings as part of ourselves and thereby hopefully becoming humbler and more careful with what we have, and aware of what we can lose.

The album, which contains 6 tracks, all composed and produced by Madnus, with a couple of songs that are more like suites than a single song. With titles such as "On The High In My Life" and "All Those Years", the album is mindful of both the present and the past. In addition, the record is about the great importance nature and natural resources has to us. In titles such as lowFly, Pacific, Oceans and Safe And Sound, Magnus pays tribute to, and points towards, the most important thing we have on our planet, freshwater and the oceans, which unfortunately we are slowly destroying and poisoning with our excessive consumerist lifestyles.

Andreas Hourdakis: electric & acoustic guitars

Daniel Karlsson: piano & keyboards

Thobias Gabrielson: bass & synthbass

Magnus Ostrom: drums, percussion, voices, additional keyboards

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June 2023

Easily the best album so far by Magnus Öström […] more to the point it's an album you want to play again, and again, and you can't ask much more than that.

A Room For Travellers

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