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ARTURO MORA: How is the current tour going?<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: It\u2019s great, it\u2019s fantastic. A lot of people showing up.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: How do you feel about playing in Vitoria again?<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: It\u2019s fantastic. I remember the first time especially, when we played before Pat [Metheny]…<\/p>\n
SERGIO CABANILLAS: Actually, you played here the first time, in this theater, the second time you played in the big auditorium before Pat.<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: Oh, yes. Anyway it\u2019s fantastic to come back.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: You have a lot of percussion elements in your drum kit. What makes you choose a certain element to join your set?<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: I don\u2019t know, I like different sounds, and if I like something I just put it in there. Maybe sometimes something sounds in your head that you want to have in a certain song, then you try to find it. That\u2019s the way it is.<\/p>\n
<\/a>\u00a9 Sergio Cabanillas, 2007<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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ARTURO MORA: Dan, why do you play sitting down? Is it to use the effect pedals?<\/p>\n
DAN BERGLUND: Just to be in the same level as Magnus and Esbj\u00f6rn, and because pedals are easier to use that way.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: How did you start incorporating these effects into your sound?<\/p>\n
DAN BERGLUND: I don\u2019t know, I\u2019ve been playing bass since I was young, I used some effects at the electric bass. I tried some distorsion, fuzz pedal, and it works with other effects as delay, and I started using this Pod. At first I had a red one, like Esbj\u00f6rn.<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: So the only thing you changed was the bass [laughs].<\/p>\n
DAN BERGLUND: It took some while until I dared to use that on a jazz… on the double bass, you know, [sarcastically] \u201con a jazz band\u201d.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: I\u2019ve seen you play with a Hartke 4-speaker amp, with an EBS combo and with a Gallien-Kr\u00fceger combo. Do you have a favourite amplifier?<\/p>\n
DAN BERGLUND: I like Eden, great sound.<\/p>\n
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ARTURO MORA: You both are players with a very distinctive, easy-to-recognize sound. Did this sound evolve personally or was it because of the evolution of E.S.T. as a band?<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: I don\u2019t know. In a way I think, I have to speak for myself, but maybe it\u2019s the same for both, that it came from the beginning, because we did always sound like we do now, but I think we got braver and braver to express ourselves in music. When you start playing you try to play like someone else that you like, you try to fit in, until you just say: \u201cI\u2019m just playing, this is who I am\u201d. Then you\u2019re doing the personal thing that you already had.<\/p>\n
Of course it develops in certain situations like E.S.T., this band that really can develop it. It\u2019s not easy to use distorsion if you play ballads with a vocalist.<\/p>\n
SERGIO CABANILLAS: Does Ake Linton have something to do with that evolution in the sound, in finding your own resources?<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: I don\u2019t know, no, I don\u2019t think so, in a way…<\/p>\n
SERGIO CABANILLAS: It\u2019s a tricky question. [laughs]<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: No, no, it\u2019s a good question [laughs]. In a way he has, I think he is the best sound engineer in the world, especially live, I\u2019ve never heard that sound. In every concert his sound is magic, I don\u2019t know how he does it, so in a way he has, because he can get a high level, so we can put out more energy and more sounds, so he has allowed us to do it. He\u2019s extremely important for the group and for each of us to hear each other in the way we do, so we can express ourselves in that environment.<\/p>\n
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ARTURO MORA: Dan, you recorded for the band Koop…<\/p>\n
DAN BERGLUND: [doubts] Yeah, I just played some bass [laughs].<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: Do you have plans for playing more in that style of music?<\/p>\n
DAN BERGLUND: I did one tune on their latest album, but I don\u2019t do that kind of music myself.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: What part do you play in E.S.T.’s compositional process?<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: It starts with Esbj\u00f6rn, he writes the tune and then we together start to develop it. Sometimes we do nothing, because the tune is great, sometimes we propose some points: \u201cwe should shorten the bridge\u201d, \u201cmaybe we should do that\u201d, of course the grooves, maybe he [Dan Berglund] picks up the bass line, you know, we start to arrange it.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: In terms of form, riffs, …<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: …and groove, yeah.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: …more than in melody and harmony.<\/p>\n
DAN BERGLUND: Yeah.<\/p>\n
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ARTURO MORA: I\u2019ve noticed that your position on the stage never changes: Esbj\u00f6rn on the left, Dan in the middle and Magnus on the right.<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: It looks good on the picture [laughs]. The main thing we look for is being very tight together, this is very important.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: Being able to see each other…<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: Yeah, but we don\u2019t look at each other, maybe sometimes. But it\u2019s a feeling, an energy, we are one.<\/p>\n
DAN BERGLUND: You can hear the instruments much better, of course.<\/p>\n
SERGIO CABANILLAS: Is it sort of a club feeling?<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: Yes, it\u2019s like being in a living room while we are on a stage.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: E.S.T. is now one of the top bands in the European jazz scene, and it\u2019s starting to be a reference for upcoming bands. Does this imply a higher responsibility for you?<\/p>\n
DAN BERGLUND: No.<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: I think it\u2019s just amazing that it is like that, because I\u2019m still in the position that I\u2019m 13 or 14 and I\u2019m still looking at the old guys, Jack DeJohnette, whoever, so many great guys. So of course it\u2019s extremely flattering that people look at this band like that, because I can\u2019t see myself in that position, I\u2019m still in the beginning just inside myself.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: Dan, do you agree with that?<\/p>\n
DAN BERGLUND: Yes, of course, I\u2019m still fourteen years old [laughs].<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: Yeah, but it\u2019s really amazing that people looks at us this way.<\/p>\n
SERGIO CABANILLAS: Even in the USA, many people read the Down Beat cover (1).<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: That was fantastic, but we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n
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ARTURO MORA: What kind of music do you usually listen to? Mainly jazz or any other things?<\/p>\n
DAN BERGLUND: I almost never listen to jazz [laughs]. I listen to hard rock music, old stuff like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, and newer like Nine Inch Nails. I listen a lot to different music, I listened the new album from Bj\u00f6rk, and I liked it.<\/p>\n
SERGIO CABANILLAS: Do you like progressive rock, bands like Dream Theater?<\/p>\n
DAN BERGLUND: No, not really. My brother\u2019s son is kind of into that.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: Magnus, do you listen to rock too?<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: Yes, I think I listen to every kind of music actually. I\u2019m really happy I\u2019m still open to all these different styles. I listen a lot to a guy called Smog from the US, and Wilco. In the jazz field I listen to Bill Frisell.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: After the tour ends, which are the next plans for E.S.T.? Is there a new recording?<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: Well, it might be official, we don\u2019t really know, but we\u2019ll tell you, you can say that you heard it somewhere [laughs]: we\u2019re gonna release a live album.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: New tunes?<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: No, from this tour.<\/p>\n
ARTURO MORA: Will you record a specific date or the material will be chosen from various concerts?<\/p>\n
MAGNUS \u00d6STR\u00d6M: No, it\u2019s already recorded, it\u2019s just one day, one concert, no editing.<\/p>\n
(1) E.S.T were featured in Down Beat\u2019s cover on May 2006. It was the first time an European jazz band appeared on Down Beat\u2019s cover ever.<\/p>\n
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Text \u00a9 2007 Arturo Mora Rioja<\/a> & Sergio Cabanillas<\/a>, Tomajazz <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nPhotographs \u00a9 2007 Sergio Cabanillas<\/a>, Tomajazz<\/p>\n