Through the album’s seven tracks, the titles of which together form a complete text, the music on Dear Body becomes an entire story, like the performance of a musical drama for which the stage has not yet been set. The different moods and soundscapes of the songs propel the story forward, painting a complex picture of pain interspersed with playful simplicity and quiet poetry. It is the love of music, and of making music, that is the driving force here, leading to humility and love for the body. This is what the whole album is about.

The impressionistic sounds, and the simple yet impactful arrangements, are recognizable from previous albums. Harmonies and instrumentation from classical music are transferred to the singer-songwriter form in which Annasara’s clear and intimate voice can be heard on four tracks. The last track includes friend and tenor Martin Vanberg. The other tracks are completely instrumental and, in addition to piano and violin played by Annasara herself, we also hear Amelia Jakobsson on cello, Johan Bridger on marimba and Simon Peterson on double bass. All tracks share a sense of chamber music and an organic sound with songlike phrasings and dynamics.

All music has been written and arranged by Annasara Lundgren. In the title track Dear Body, two themes from the Sibelius Violin Concerto are first woven into the song’s verse and chorus, before being heard instrumentally toward the end.

Annasara Lundgren is a trained classical violinist and worked as a symphonic performer and chamber musician for ten years before focusing on her own songwriting and starting composition studies in 2018. She has since released the albums Till dig som är barn (To You, a Child; 2018), Self Love (2019) and Songs from Sälshög (2020) on her own label Annasongs.

Dear Body

Surrounded By Love

Impressions From Sälshög 1st Movement INSTR

Impressions From Sälshög 2nd Movement INSTR

Trollmors Vaggsång

Vem Kan Segla Förutan Vind

I Am In Love

Amazed

You Are Worthy Of Love

All Min Tid

I Wish I Knew

To The Child

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Impressions From Sälshög 1st Movement

Impressions From Sälshög, 3rd Movement

Impressions From Sälshög, 2nd Movement

Annasara Lundgren is a Swedish neoclassical singer songwriter and a classically trained violinist based in Malmö, where she also studied music. After freelancing as a symphonic and chamber musician for almost ten years, she moved to Sälshög in the countryside (one hour from Malmö), to study full-time classical composition for a year. That is where she wrote the music to the album ”Songs from Sälshög'', released in 2020. Annasara works thematically and follows quite a traditional form in her songs, with chorus, verse and bridge, fused with big influences from classical music, especially the French impressionistic era. Her music is dreamy, shifting from minimalistically simple to suddenly complex, from light and pure to dark ambiences; continuously through her own unique tonality. Her recordings are all acoustic and dynamic, and she records piano, violin and vocals in her own home studio, inviting her friends and colleagues to record additional instruments when needed.  She’s also released an EP with jazz vibes (”Self love”, 2019) and an album with Children’s music (”till dig som är barn”, 2018). The planned release for her full length album ”Dear Body”, is set for 2022.

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