In 1991, Magnus and Esbjörn Svensson started e.s.t. and the rest is a huge emotional history.
Together they recorded 12 albums and one concert DVD, toured the world several times over, sold hundreds of thousands of albums, and was titled the ”trio of the decade”. Nowadays e.s.t. is considered to have been the most influential band in jazz in the Noughties and the album Live in Hamburg has been awarded ”Album of the Decade” by no less than The Times (UK).
In 2011, Magnus Öström released his debut album, Thread of Life on which he composed all the tunes. The album received rave reviews and he was rewarded the German ECHO Jazz Award for Best Drummer International.
In 2013 followed his second solo album, Searching For Jupiter, which won him the Swedish Manifest Award for the best jazz album of 2013.
With his trio RYMDEN, besides Bugge Wesseltoft and Dan Berglund, he explored another worldspanning success, gave us 2 studio albums and a couple of live EPs full of tempting compositions.
2023 will bring us the return of Magnus’ own quartet, a personal journey accompanied by Thobias Gabrielson, Andreas Hourdakis, Daniel Karlsson.
A Room For Travellers is 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 clocks in at 40 minutes, contains 6 tracks, 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 the 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, the water, 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 ÖSTRÖM – Drums, percussion, voices, additional keyboards
