Rosendals Garden is yet another chapter in Yelena Eckemoff‘s ongoing historical narrative devoted to people and places both real and imagined. Recorded in 2024 at RMV Studio, Stockholm, Sweden, by engineer Linn Final, with mixing and mastering by Stefano Amerio, the audio is as colorful and detailed as the musicianship and the packaging.
Remarkably, there has never been a sense of hurry in the playing of keyboardist Eckemoff and her two bandmates. During the luxuriously slow build-up of “ABBA Museum,” for instance, there is every indication all three musicians trust their instincts, individually and collectively. The shared intuition is even more apparent on the title song: the structure of the composition is mirrored…