Quills

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2009

Label: Dark One

With his 8th album release, Quills, Patrik Tanner offers what can arguably be called his most compelling and accomplished work to date.

Freeing himself from any expectation or constraint of pop, rock, country or other, Tanner has fashioned a cohesive and highly-stylized collection. Though he likens the record to what little he can remember hearing as a child on radio in his native Sweden (e.g., Barbro Horberg, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Svante Thuresson), the sound suggests sympathy with certain bygone popular institutions – vaudevillian saloons, maritime bands and parlor piano songs – yet his harmonic sensibility and refined phrasing lend a more timeless air. Throughout, Tanner serves as conductor, soloist and one-man pit orchestra alike.