e.s.t. 30 zooms in from the widest of panoramas to the intimacy of the close-up.

Love remains…In 1993, three musicians from Sweden, Esbjrn Svensson, Dan Berglund and Magnus strm formed the band e.s.t.. Svensson and strm had known each other ever since their first steps into music as children. When the band formed they probably didn’t think they were particularly ‘jazz’ either; all they wanted to do was to play the music which united their passions: rock, pop, classical, folk, improvisation. In the following 15 years, e.s.t. would play thousands of concerts worldwide, release ten studio albums and several live recordings, win awards, gold discs.

To mark the 30th anniversary of e.s.t., Magnus strm and Dan Berglund combined forces with close musical friends Joel Lyssarides, Magnus Lindgren, Verneri Pohjola and Ulf Wakenius to give two major concerts, one at the Philharmonie in Cologne and other at the Filadelfia church in Sto