15 Years GRETCHEN: RYMDEN

Rymden: melancholic, atmospheric songwriting, dramatically charged rhythms and virtuosic jazz at the highest level.

Since their formation, the trio has combined acoustic jazz with electronic textures and influences from progressive rock, classical music and Scandinavian folk traditions. With their new studio album “Today May Be Tomorrow”, Rymden are back on tour.

The Swedish-Norwegian trio consists of former e.s.t. members Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström, alongside Norwegian jazz pianist Bugge Wesseltoft. The three musicians often refer to themselves as a “supergroup” – not only within jazz, but within European music as a whole. It is a fitting description: their music is both sophisticated and accessible, with experimentation serving not as an end in itself, but as a way of exploring fresh and contemporary musical ideas.

Rymden’s sound is defined by the interplay of acoustic virtuosity and electronic exploration. Piano, bass and drums remain at the heart of the music, while electronic elements are never used as mere effects, but as a means of expanding the sonic landscape. Clear melodic themes, complex rhythmic structures and dynamic arcs between intimacy and intensity are central to their distinctive sound.

Today May Be Tomorrow does not abandon the cosmos, the landscape, or the cinematic breadth of the trio’s earlier work. Instead, it draws those elements inward and onward, into music concerned with time, return and transformation, while allowing the album title’s darker resonance to remain present: the future is not guaranteed, and tomorrow is no longer something that can be taken for granted. RYMDEN remain explorers, but here the expedition is not simply through outer space, nor across valleys and mountains. It is through the charged present moment itself: where yesterday may be revisited, tomorrow may already be arriving, and today may never be only today.

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Photo: Egil Hansen