PRIMING ORCHESTRA
Deep Blue
GAC015
GAC 2010
08 Tracks. 54mins35secs

A weathered jazz pianist and keyboard player, Swedish musician Harald Svensson has been an active member of the Scandinavian jazz scene for almost forty years. A member of numerous formations, most notably Entra, which also counted in its ranks Thomas Gustafsson, Staffan Svensson, Anders Jormin and Audun Kleive, and with whom he released a number of albums between 1978 and 1993, Svensson has also worked with a wide array of international musicians and regularly performs as a solo artist. He assembled Priming Orchestra back in 2002, with the aim of bringing together jazz, improv, club music and electronics. The band released a first self-titled album in 2006. Originally a quartet formed of Svensson (keyboards), Staffan Svensson (trumpet, electronics), Johannes Lundberg (bass, keyboards, electronics) and Chris Montgomery (drums), the band has since expanded to a quintet with the arrival of Christoffer Berg (synths, drum machine, zither), who has previously been spotted alongside Fever Ray. Continue Reading »