On the album ”Take Off”, SWOTE (Frida Thurfjell and Emma Augustsson) take an artistic step in a new direction, where the music continues to build on free improvisations and compositions, yet is recorded live and partly processed through analog effects. The starting point was to let the acoustic sound of saxophone and cello meet intuitive sound design by Jonas Odhner and Dan Olsson in the studio.
The result is an album whose soundscape dynamically undulates from intimate and organic to distant and modulated. The music is inspired by Yoko Ono's book "Grapefruit".
SWOTE
Frida Thurfjell: Saxophone, organ / Emma Augustsson: Cello, mellotron, vocals
Jonas Odhner and Dan Olsson (Sonores Studios): Recording, mixing, producers, modular synth, mellotron, analog effects
Anton Svanberg: valve trombone, tuba and balalaika on ”Take the Waters”
Mastering by Frida Claeson Johansson (Svenska Grammofonstudion)
Art and album design by Therese Frisk
Photo by Dan Olsson