THE GODFORGOTTENS

The association of trumpeter Magnus Broo with the Sten Sandell Trio was very much intended and searched for, giving continuity to another partnership in quartet: the one with John Butcher heard in the album “Strokes”. But something wasn't planned: the use of a Hammond B-3 organ. The instrument was laying in a corner of the recording studio and Sandell decided on the spot to use it as his main keyboard. With one particularity: he never played a Hammond before. Of course, the music changed radically; not only we feel Broo's influence in all the developments, as the peculiar characteristics of the organ determined a kind of approach rather different from anything done previously by the Sten Sandell Trio. And that's why “Never Forgotten, Always Remembered” is credited to a new band, The Godforgottens. And what a band, reuniting great virtuosos (along with Broo and Sandell, bassist Johan Berthling and drummer read more...