Press
Quotes
“The group can really open the music up and communicate. High energy and well made structures permeate this production, full of different coloured nuances”
— Jan Lundgren
”Persson Sexa is one of the best debut records I have heard in a while. If a band already at the first attempt may produce music that is as open and simultaneously integrated as the groups, and so boldly confident in both its responsiveness and its originality, they can accomplish practically anything in the future. That's a future I long for.”
— Peter Sjöblom, Tidningen Kulturen
"Strongly composed and cleverly arranged modern jazz…. one of this year’s best jazz albums”
— Alexander Agrell, Sydsvenska Dagbladet
"Musical beauty on a level that few managed to reach during this year. The beautiful piano builds up the foundation of the song, but when the horns enter after about 4:10 the roof is raised. The last two minutes of this song is among my absolute musical high points from 2016”
— Ola Elleström, HYMN (regarding the track “Europa” from the album “Vol “II”
”…different forms of modern jazz is blended with something quite unique, freer form is varied with more bound in a jazz that balances gravity and playfulness exquisitely…. an excellent debut that has grown with multiple listens”
— Andreas Lagercrantz, LIRA
“In the music there exists a variation from beautiful and serene like nature poetry, to charmingly messy, an unpredictability that contains both the fragile and the bold. It makes the album rich in content, it’s both strong and unconventional”
— Bo Bjelvehammar, Tidningen Kulturen
”Its debut is a suite of six compositions; all feature strong, upbeat melodic lines, deep knowledge of modern jazz vocabulary and powerful group interplay that leaves enough room for personal interpretations and free improvisations….promising band. Highly impressive debut.”
- Eyal Hareuveni, All About Jazz