After more than 50 years of touring the world and more than 1200 registered compositions with STIM, acclaimed multi-musician Ale Möller releases a record of interpretations of other people's songs.

Trying to list all the prizes and awards Ale Möller has received is as impossible as listing all the instruments he masters. Multiple Grammy winner, certified legend and professor. He has received both royal medals and the government's export honor award and is an internationally recognized artist with star status worldwide. In 2014, he was awarded the former Beatles producer George Martin's prestigious Sir George Martin Music Award and the heavy Lifetime Achievement Award shares Ale Möller as the first artist in the Nordics with names such as Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Joan Baez and Harry Belafonte.

What started with a trumpet and a youthful relationship with jazz continued in a hot love affair with Greek folk music and then landed in a deep adult relat...

After more than 50 years of touring the world and more than 1200 registered compositions with STIM, acclaimed multi-musician Ale Möller releases a record of interpretations of other people's songs.

Trying to list all the prizes and awards Ale Möller has received is as impossible as listing all the instruments he masters. Multiple Grammy winner, certified legend and professor. He has received both royal medals and the government's export honor award and is an internationally recognized artist with star status worldwide. In 2014, he was awarded the former Beatles producer George Martin's prestigious Sir George Martin Music Award and the heavy Lifetime Achievement Award shares Ale Möller as the first artist in the Nordics with names such as Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Joan Baez and Harry Belafonte.

What started with a trumpet and a youthful relationship with jazz continued in a hot love affair with Greek folk music and then landed in a deep adult relationship with Nordic folk music. Ale Möller moves in his own musical universe, known for his many projects and collaborations across genre and cultural boundaries. Regardless of the genre, Ale Möller works his way into the source code of the music he encounters and he obtains an almost unique legendary status for how he expanded the concept of folk music for decades. With X own albums and over 1200 compositions registered with STIM, it is now time for a record with only interpretations of other people's songs.

"I never thought I would make a cover album, but this feels both necessary and very fun! Of all the thousands of songs I've played over the years, there are some that stubbornly come back and insist on being played. Sluggish stalkers who attack from behind, and who I have now decided to melee.”

During a few intense days, Ale Möller and his friends Mats Öberg and Olle Linder met in a borrowed summer cottage to record some of these "hangovers". Music by George Harrison, Evert Taube, Jim Morrison, Ravi Shankar, Lennon McCartney, Timas Hans and others. in strongly personal and wayward interpretations.

The legendary pianist Mats Öberg began his career as a nine-year-old and over the years has played with everything from Frank Zappa to Carola. Today he is mainly known as one half of Mats & Morgan and as one of the country's foremost improvisational musicians.

The multi-instrumentalist Olle Linder plays bass, drums, mandola and all kinds of percussion and can be heard in a large number of projects in both folk, jazz and pop contexts. A great fascination for Latin American music has taken him several times to countries such as Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, where he both studied and played music....

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