Uppsala Nya Tidning 110615
By: ULF GUSTAVSSON
REVIEW: On the new CD with Benny Andersson Band reminiscences of older pop join together with folk tune and other popular music, Ulf Gustavsson writes.
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Benny Andersson mixes musical genres like no one else, sometimes in the same song. Yet it´s no doubt that the music comes from him. It is in a special esprit, a melodic flow, the ability to tread the familiar musical grounds with the eyes of a curious child.
On the new CD with Benny Andersson Band reminiscences of older Swedish pop join together with folk tune and other popular music. Here is a hilarious circus polka, as well as the excellent Tommy Körberg ballad “Jag hör” (I hear…) Or a musical influenced anthem with a little Kristina feeling when Helen Sjöholm sings “Vilar glad. I din famn” (Resting Happy. In your arms) with lyrics by Kristina Lugn.
Most of all I appreciate the moments when Benny Andersson settles close to the Swedish folk music, in a song like “Alla goda ting” (All Good Things), one of those rare major- minor- meandering melodies. Or when he approaches Peterson-Berger in the piano miniature “Flickornas rum” (The Girls Room).