" data-original-title="" title="">Per Texas Johansson is a musical freethinker who dishes out a series of unfettered compositions, injected with heartening attributes on his latest solo effort. As a top-flight session artist, Johansson has been at the forefront of the fertile Scandinavian music scene. Here, the artist blends a multidimensional soundscape with vocalists who often shade or reshape the proceedings with hallowed wordless choruses, while also providing depth to these resonating thematic overtures, spiked with up-tempo motifs, sanguine melodies, shuffling grooves and spry sub-themes.

"Str?k p? himlen och stora hus" is peppered by drummer Konrad Agnas' snappy rimshots, as the leader envelops his oboe phrasings with a dash of studio echo, which is a facet that extends the compositional profundity. Consequently, many of these works highlight the band's harmonious melody-making, occasionally countered by flotation-like sequences, and hard-hitting pulses. Although Johansson's wistful clarinet-based ballad "H?r b?rjar regnb?gen" poses a sense of isolation amid a tinge of hope atop the drummer's sprinkling bells and violinist Josefin Runsteen supple accents. There are no firestorms or propulsive trajectories during this acutely produced album that brims with well-articulated dynamics and jaunty movements.

Other regions of sound and scope are designed with circular constructions, escalated by venerable mallet instrument performer