‘Lars Forssell’s lyrics are both lyrical and down-to-earth and often deal with love experiences, exposure and vulnerability. They can be provocative, politically pronounced, mix light and dark and can be both shimmeringly beautiful and agonizingly black. Evert Taube had great significance for tango in Sweden during the 20th century. Lars Forssell was a close friend of the family and played an important role in how the view of Evert Taube changed from a slightly odd troubadour to the role of popular national poet. Sven Bertil Taube and Lars Forssell went to Argentina together in 1988 and experienced Argentine tango. When they got home, they recorded a tango LP. I have chosen some of these songs with Lars’s ingenious lyrics. Our last café depicts how painful it is to be abandoned. In Lost Birds we meet the deceived man and the broken love. In Again, the lost love is portrayed. Belgrano is nostalgic and invites us to “play the piano of the past”.’ – Torsten Mossberg

Torsten Mossberg is a doctor, specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care. He has studied singing with, among others, Esther Ruhrseitz, Eva Pilat and Björn Thulin. He has extensive experience as a choir singer, tenor in Oscar's chamber choir in Stockholm and often employed as a soloist. Torsten has a wide repertoire – from ballads to romances and cabaret songs and regularly gives concerts with different themes. He has recorded several CDs for Sterling, above all with rarely recorded songs by Swedish composers, e.g. by Allan Pettersson and Lille Bror Söderlundh but also songs by Kurt Weill, Swedish shilling prints and songs by Carl Michael Bellman, Evert Taube and Nils Ferlin. The most recent edition is En spelmans jordafärd, settings of Dan Andersson’s poems, Sterling CDA1873.

Contents:
1. Marknadsminne (Market memory)
2. När sommarmolnen vänds i grått (When the summer clouds turn gray)
3. En fransman i Stockholm (A Frenchman in Stockholm)
4. Vårt sista café (Our last café)
5. Mitt skepp (My ship)
6. Säj vad ni vill (Say what you want)
7. Belgrano (Belgrano)
8. Desertören (The deserter)
9. Si drömmar'n kommer där (See, the Dreamer comes here)
10. Vilsna fåglar (Lost birds)
11. Snurra min jord (Spin my earth)
12. Vad blev alla vänner av (What happened to all the friends)
13. En gång (Once)
14. Natten (The night)
15. På nytt (Again)
16. Aria (Aria)
17. Norrbro (Norrbro)