Swedish drummer and composer Magnus Öström and his band are finally back with a new album, 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. Prior to the release of his new album, A Room For Travellers, Swedish drummer and composer, Magnus Öström (E.S.T./Rymden) will be playing two UK shows in London and Manchester.
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 clocks in at 40 minutes, contains 6 tracks, all composed and produced by Magnus, 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 FlowFly, 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.
MAGNUS ÖSTRÖM – A Room For Travellers
release date: 9th June 2023
label: Jazzland Recordings
LP / CD / DL cat no: 3779557
Line up:
ANDREAS HOURDAKIS – Electric & acoustic guitars
DANIEL KARLSSON – Piano & keyboards
THOBIAS GABRIELSON – Bass & synthbass
MAGNUS ÖSTRÖM – Drums, percussion, voices, additional keyboards
Track list:
1. Safe and Sound
2. FlowFly
3. Oceans
4. Pacific
5. On The High In My Life
6. All Those Years