Jacob Karlzon

Swedish jazz pianist and composer Jacob Karlzon has been compared to Sweden’s own legends Esbjörn Svensson and Jan Johansson.
Karlzon’s playing style oozes technical brilliance, rhythmic and harmonic complexity with a perfect feeling for form. Karlzon describes what drives him:
“We are a modern people with a long history, and it is precisely this which I want to reflect in my music. I am fascinated with the possibilities of new technologies but I also need warmth and a connection with the earth in order to feel happy.”

For a piano virtuoso, he likes to add edge; metal and electro all have their place in his music as well as folk songs from his Swedish homeland. With such an open attitude, Karlzon balances depth and musical ideas to achieve vibrant pulsating soundscapes ranging from light to energetic, fragile to powerful, organic to electronic, sometimes all at once. He calls this approach ‚technorganic‘, a kind of improvisation which bursts out of conventional musical borders. 
He has also manifested this aesthetic direction in his collaboration with d&b audiotechnik and their Immersive Sound-system Soundscape.