MIKAEL GODEE & EVE BEUVENS QUARTET : Ingen Fara – Album Release

Chance does things well: it only took a flyer and a few clicks on Myspace for Eve Beuvens and Mikael Godée to meet in 2009. Their first concerts as a duo revealed a very natural complicity with which they associated Magnus Bergström on double bass and Johan Birgenius on drums. Fourteen years later, after dozens of concerts in Belgium, Sweden, France, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Qatar, Poland, they released their third disc as a quartet “Ingen Fara”.

Both at the helm of the group equally, Eve and Mikael share the compositions, and they form a surprisingly homogeneous whole combining Nordic lyricism and modern jazz. Between the four musicians, the music plays out like a tennis match devoid of any rivalry and unfolds like a telepathic conversation. Four strong musical personalities who serve each other, a real group!

“Ingen Fara” is a Swedish expression that could be translated as “don’t worry” that a child might say before making a rash move, for example. Behind this title the group wants to transmit a positive message, to share music that resembles a flight of free and united migratory birds.